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PowerFlex is a software-defined storage platform that is designed to significantly reduce operational and infrastructure complexity. This platform empowers organizations to move faster by delivering flexibility, elasticity, and simplicity with predictable performance and resiliency at scale. The PowerFlex family provides a foundation that combines compute and high-performance storage resources in a managed unified fabric. PowerFlex comes in flexible deployment options - rack, appliance, or ready nodes - that enable two-layer (compute and server SAN), single-layer (HCI), and storage-only architectures. PowerFlex is ideal for high-performance applications and databases, building an agile private cloud, or consolidating resources in heterogeneous environments.