Dell Technologies Launches New Midrange Data Storage Platform

…  systems and drives better balance in price and performance.

IDC’s Eric Burgener

“It’s also the protocol of the future for primary storage. So for a new PowerStore customer, there’s no forklift upgrade to move to newer storage technologies like persistent memory, storage class memory or NVMe over fabrics.” said Burgener. “This is Dell EMC bringing NVMe to midrange storage, although Hitachi, IBM and Pure Storage had already done that.”

The AppsON option is PowerStore’s other important ingredient, said Burgener.

“This effectively lets customers run applications directly on PowerStore, instead of running them on separate servers in what they call ‘hypervisor mode.’”

That’s not really a traditional hyperconverged infrastructure system, but it brings some of those same benefits in terms of infrastructure consolidation and can be particularly interesting in edge or distributed environments to lower footprints and costs, he said.

Scott Sinclair of Enterprise Strategy Group is another analyst. He said the new storage systems feature impressive innovation and a few additional capabilities that can dramatically simply IT storage environments. They also improve application deployment flexibility.

“For channel partners, PowerStore simplifies the conversation and the upfront storage design work, providing end-to-end NVMe performance with the ability to scale up, adding more capacity, or out, adding performance and capacity, as demands evolve,” said Sinclair. “This increased performance and flexibility should offer channel partners an opportunity to shorten deployment schedules with their clients. It should also increase the opportunities and options on how to advise clients to grow their storage environments moving forward.”