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Maximize Your Energy Efficiency and Cyber Resiliency with Dell PowerMax

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IT organizations love PowerMax for its high efficiency and cyber resiliency, which are integral to the platform’s DNA. Here's the replay from our recent LinkedIn event discussing the latest updates to PowerMax where Practice Director from the Enterprise Strategy Group, Scott Sinclair chats to Engineering Technologist, Scott Delandy. Learn how the innovations in the latest release further optimize and secure mission-critical workloads.

Power Up with More Security, Automation, and Sustainability

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IT organizations are going through major transformations and face a range of challenges to do so successfully. Businesses are becoming more digital and the need to effectively managing IT operations is critical to being competitive and capturing new opportunities. For decades, IT organizations have relied on the advanced capabilities of PowerMax to support their most mission critical applications. The latest PowerMax OS 10.1 release builds on these proven capabilities with even more levels of security, automation, and sustainability. It allows IT organization to protect and secure data, automate operations, and increase efficiency - all delivering faster innovation and more value to the business. 

Technology Can Be Upgraded, Can You?

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One of the key trends within IT is the need to automate management of technology infrastructure. The reason automation is so important is because technology is moving at a superfast pace. Keeping up with all this new “technology goodness” and making it consumable to users and the business is a challenge for IT organizations. Equally challenging is the need to keep up with new skill sets necessary to harness the value of automation. Let’s look at some of the cool things Dell Technologies is doing to help you add these new skills to successfully automate and modernize your storage environment.

Powering up with Dell at Storage Field Day 24

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Storage Field Day is a highly anticipated event to meet and network with a select group of independent tech influencers and thought leaders. It’s always a great opportunity to have an open exchange on what’s happening within the storage industry with an experienced audience representing a wide range of perspectives. This year’s event was no different, with Dell taking center stage discussing how to deliver a continuously modern storage experience. This session included an update on the storage portfolio and strategy as well as a deep dive geek-out on what’s new and cool.

Building a Secure Zero Trust Infrastructure with PowerMax

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Cyber security is a top of mind concern for every IT organization. Research shows that a cyber or ransomware attack occurs every 11 seconds. This elevated frequency of attacks becomes an even greater issue as hackers evolve their techniques to find new ways to infiltrate IT infrastructures. Potential threats and breaches are no longer from external entities only. New potential threats can come from within where attackers already have gained back door access to the infrastructure. Building a secure, zero trust infrastructure helps address these external and internal treats and protect an organization’s infrastructure and more importantly, the information assets within it.

Introducing Dell’s SmartFabric Storage Services for NVMe over IP

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Storage based IP networks leveraging the NVMe protocol can provide a cost effective, high performance connectivity alternative to traditional Fibre Channel SANs. While ecosystem support, such as VMware, is maturing, the tools required to set up and manage NVMe based networks lack the automation and integration compared to Fibre Channel. Providing admins with similar IP based automation tools is a key requirement to drive adoption and simplify management at scale. The introduction of Dell’s Smart Fabric Storage Services (SFSS) addresses these challenges. Deploying storage with NVMe over IP using SFSS provides the necessary automation to significantly simplify and standardize the management these deployments. Leveraging SFSS will help accelerate adoption of this new technology and maximize IT’s ability to leverage the cost and performance benefits of NMVe over IP.

Introducing Cybersecurity for CloudIQ

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Cybersecurity is a top of mind concern for every IT organization. Recent events show how cyber threats are not only persistent but constantly evolve. IT teams are challenged to react to these threats and be proactive in minimizing their security risks and vulnerabilities. Doing this effectively at scale requires security to be built in and automated as much as possible. New cybersecurity intelligence now included with CloudIQ to detect, report, and remediate infrastructure security vulnerabilities provide new levels of visibility into potential threats. Leveraging CloudIQ with Cybersecurity helps IT teams better protect their users, organizations, and customers.

PowerMax Powers Up!

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It’s big week for Dell and the storage team. It marks the completion of a lot of hard work by the engineering and development teams to introduce the latest PowerMax release. A lot has changed since the original introduction of Symmetrix. But one thing has remained constant. IT organizations continue to trust this platform to support their most mission critical environments.

Running High Value Workloads on VMware Cloud Foundation

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Not all virtualized workloads are created equally. Deploying high value workloads with large capacities, high I/O requirements, and high availability services can be a challenge. Leveraging Dell EMC Enterprise Storage for these critical apps continues to be an extremely valuable and efficient cloud deployment model. Check out this video to see how integrating PowerMax with vRO … Continue reading Running High Value Workloads on VMware Cloud Foundation