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Dell storage systems address rapid data growth and optimize data-center resources with simple and efficient data mobility to and from public and private clouds. Cloud Mobility for Dell PowerMax offers seamless and transparent movement of application data copies from on-premises to cloud, enabling PowerMax customers to leverage public cloud for agile and economical storage. Archiving and long-term retention are primary examples of how PowerMax customers can leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Dell ECS for low-cost storage. PowerMaxOS 5978.711.711 (Q1 2021 SR) release also adds support for Dell PowerScale OneFS S3. PowerMax data can be recovered back to the source PowerMax, or a different PowerMax 2500 or 8500 if needed. Archiving to the cloud frees capacity for on-premises PowerMax arrays to support higher priority applications.
On PowerMax 2500 and 8500, Cloud Mobility runs as a Docker container, including High Availability (HA) functionality, IPv6 support, improved performance providing better throughput to and from the cloud, and the ability to restore a cloud snapshot from a different PowerMax system.
PowerMax data stored in the cloud can be made available to an AWS system for secondary processing. For example, a Linux image can run Oracle in AWS, which in turn can mount a PowerMax database copy and perform reporting, analytics, or development/test on that database. When the secondary processing is complete, the data can be exported, and the infrastructure can be removed. This ability allows the customer to realize the inherent cost savings of a flexible public-cloud consumption model.