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PowerFlex is a software-defined storage platform is designed to significantly reduce operational and infrastructure complexity, empowering 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 as well as 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 & server SAN), single-layer (HCI), and/or storage only architectures. PowerFlex is ideal for high performance applications and databases, building an agile private cloud, or consolidating resources in heterogeneous environments.
Figure 1. PowerFlex family