We are finally at a point in the APEX Navigator journey that we are ready for prime-time general availability! Our highly anticipated release of APEX Navigator is now open and ready for all.

Ready to fully embrace multicloud storage ecosystems? Then this is the release for you and your company. Enabling a free 90-day evaluation license that applies to Dell licensing only, as well as a common storage platform for block and file (in the near future) across on-premises and major hyperscalers, Dell APEX Navigator is here to bring you multicloud storage ecosystems at their most elegant. The centralized SaaS experience will synthesize your digital transformation across all clouds and all infrastructure services.

Vision, tooling, and commonality are at the core of Dell APEX Navigator, and our engineering teams have been exceptionally busy thinking through the permutations and experiences that a multicloud offering should deliver. With great success, I might add!

The Dell APEX block storage that will be deployed as part of the release has already proven to be the best of its kind in the industry, and our APEX Navigator portal provides the deployment orchestration, day two monitoring, and decommissioning that glues the entire ecosystem together.

With APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage, you can:

• Centralize Dell Storage software deployment and lifecycle management across multiple public clouds, including:

• Easy configuration
• Automated provisioning and deployment requiring only four steps

• Drive data mobility between on-prem and multiple public clouds to meet shifting cloud strategies

• AWS available at release
• Azure to follow soon

• Integrate with popular automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform as part of our API-first architecture, so you can:

• Accelerate productivity
• Embrace Dell storage software in the public cloud as part of your broader IT strategy

• Take decisive action using intelligent insights and comprehensive monitoring across your entire Dell storage estate with CloudIQ integration to track:

• License inventory
• System health
• Performance
• Capacity

• Accelerate Zero Trust adoption with role-based access control, single-sign on, and federated identity, all incorporating Zero Trust principles for complete control of data

If multicloud use cases are currently on your strategy to-do list (and they should be), the time is now to embrace the innovation Dell is bringing to the space. And we’re just getting warmed up, with our evolution only accelerating.

Don’t miss the APEX Navigator video series to dive deeper into the exciting trajectory we’re on. More video demos are being added frequently, so stay tuned for more!

Resources

Check out the Dell APEX Navigator page for more information. 

The following APEX demos and documents provide additional information:

• Full APEX demo playlist 
• APEX Block Storage for AWS
• APEX Block Storage for Azure
• Performance Results for Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
• Performance Results for Dell APEX Block Storage for Azure

Author: Robert F. Sonders, Technical Staff – Engineering Technologist, Multicloud Storage Software