The Dell EMC PowerMax family offers unprecedented levels of performance and scale using next-generation Storage Class Memory (SCM) and high-speed SAN infrastructures. PowerMax is powerful, simple, and trusted storage without compromise. It is built for mission-critical apps of today and tomorrow with end-to-end NVMe, next-gen storage media (SCM), real-time machine learning and inline deduplication and compression, while also delivering the features and data services businesses require.
Primary benefits
The primary benefits that PowerMax platforms offer to customers include the following:
- A powerful end-to-end NVMe storage architecture that delivers:
- Up to 15M IOPS, 350 GBps throughput (187 K IOPS per rack unit)
- Industry-standard NVMe-Based flash and SCM drives
- Native NVMe Drive Array Enclosures (DAEs)
- Large-scale workload consolidation in which Open Systems and mainframe block storage can co-exist with file storage on the same platform
- Integrated, real-time machine-learning engine for automatic data placement
- Automated I/O recognition and data placement across flash and SCM media to maximize performance with no management overhead
- Elimination of high-performance silo and consolidation of all mission-critical workloads and secondary applications
- Enterprise grade storage security and protection
- End to end efficient data Encryption
- FIPS 140-2 validated Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE)
- Secure snapshots, role-based authentication, and tamper-proof audit logs
- Enterprise levels of reliability with proven six-nine’s availability in a single array
- Investment protection with the Future Proof Program
- Global inline data deduplication and enhanced compression with virtually no performance impact
- Works with all data services
- Provides a 3.5:1 data reduction guarantee through Dell’s Future Proof Program
- Powerful data services which help protect, manage, and move customer data on the array. These data services include remote replication with SRDF, High Availability with SRDF/Metro, Local replication with TimeFinder SnapVX, and Cloud Mobility
- A comprehensive easy to use API covering storage provisioning, all configurable data services, array configuration, performance monitoring and alerting.
Note: For more information about these PowerMax features and their value propositions, see the Dell EMC PowerMax Family web page.