Dell EMC PowerMax 8500
Introducing future-ready and cyber-resilient storage

Overview:

Today’s Mission-critical applications require a new approach to enterprise storage infrastructure

In today’s digital economy, unparalleled software innovation, multi-cloud agility and advancements in workflow automation have given organizations the opportunity to become disruptive and innovate with data. To keep pace with business demands and capitalize on this opportunity, organizations need to accelerate the time between data creation and innovation, but face numerous headwinds. Data is growing exponentially and is more diverse and distributed than ever before. In addition, organizations are struggling to breakdown internal operational silos, protect their IT infrastructure from sophisticated cyber security threats, increase developer productivity and overcome cloud complexity.

To address these challenges, organizations need trusted and innovative enterprise storage that provides unparalleled performance, scalability, and security at scale without compromise. Dell’s new PowerMax is designed to be secure, intelligent, and always modern so that businesses can fully unlock the power of data.

The latest PowerMaxOS 10 software builds on decades of software innovation to provide trusted, intelligent, secure storage for the most demanding missioncritical workloads while simplifying operations. Based on NVMe dynamic fabric technology, the new PowerMax systems eliminate traditional storage boundries in every possible dimension—performance, scalability, capacity, security—to meet the increasing demands of traditional workloads and next generation cloud-based applications.

Built to consolidate

PowerMax is designed to consolidate demanding mixed workloads through its extreme levels of performance and unprecedented response times. It’s modern scale-up and scale-out architecture is ideal for relational databases, real-time analytics, demanding transaction processing workloads and big data applications that require uncompromising uptime and extremely low latency.

Dell’s newest PowerMax systems consist of two models, the PowerMax 2500 and 8500, that are offered with inclusive software bundles to simplify ordering. The PowerMax 2500 delivers high performance in a compact package storing up to 7x more capacity (8PBe) in half the rack space compared with previous models. Along with its high efficiency design, the 2500 supports the full complement of rich data services for open systems, mainframe, file, and virtual environments.

The PowerMax 8500 delivers leading performance at scale for the most demanding mixed workloads requiring predictable performance with always-on availability. The 8500 delivers up to 2x faster performance and 50% lower response times with up to 18PBe of capacity11 compared with previous models. Like the PowerMax 2500, the 8500 can easily consolidate open systems, mainframe, file, and virtualized storage to simplify operations, significantly reduce TCO and increase ROI.

Both models incorporate the latest technologies needed to meet stringent service levels – powerful Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, high-speed cache, RDMA over NVMe, and 100Gb InfiniBand.

The 2500 and 8500 offer several advantages for delivering the highest storage performance, resiliency, and efficiency through cutting-edge flexible RAID technology. Flexible RAID provides more usable storage capacity by leveraging granular storage media, load balancing, and several RAID options – RAID 1, 5, 6. And the combination of dynamic fabric technology along with flexible RAID allows every node to access every drive and single drive upgrades to increase overall storage capacity.

Both models also support key IBM zSystems technology that can deliver high performance for mainframe environments including zHyperLink for extremely low latency reads and 32 Gb FICON supporting the new IBM z16.