How to modernize computing infrastructure? Automating manual processes with the help of machine learning techniques is boosting performance for Dell EMC’s computing solutions, according to Chhandomay Mandal (pictured), director of product marketing at Dell EMC.

As the newly formed mega company merges products, Dell EMC’s PowerMax has emerged earlier this year as a reboot of EMC and VMware’s VMAX virtual storage array. With more compute power and integrated storage and networking, PowerMax is scalable and powerful enough to support machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, according to Mandal.

“[PowerMax] is a very powerful platform. It’s simple, and it’s trusted,” he said. “It is actually the fastest storage array — 10 million input/output operations per second, 150 gigabytes per second.”

Not only is PowerMax powerful and efficient, it is also incredibly simple. Machine learning has been built into the platform, allowing for provision storage based on “surface levels that you need to give your customers,” Mandal described.

Under that, Dell EMC optimizes the workloads being run. Overall, PowerMax has constructed a way to simplify customers’ IT environments. “At the end of the day, they’re minimizing their operational expenses by simplifying the management — how they manage their infrastructure [and] monitor their infrastructure,” Mandal said.

Mandal spoke with Lisa Martin (@LuccaZara), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host John Troyer (@jtroyer), during the VMworld conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed Dell EMC’s latest products and what they mean for customers’ data storage. (* Disclosure below.)

Data reduction and VMware

Also conceived by Dell EMC and designed from the ground up is an all-flash array called XtremIO, which was formed to reduce data storage of flash media, unlike PowerMax’s machine learning platform, Mandal explained. It delivers high performance with low latency, which is why VMware has begun using the newest iteration, XtremIO X2.

Within VMware’s production environment, replication technologies are being leveraged for Dell EMC’s tier; then from that tier, VMware makes copies. On the copies, patches are applied and sandboxing occurs so as to produce an exact replica of the production environment, which is then pushed back into production, Mandal explained. With the reduction technology of XtremIO, what took traditional storage two and a half hours took 90 seconds, he added.

“Essentially, three rows of storage would be reduced to three racks of XtremIO,” he said.

Lastly, Dell EMC has crafted a future-proof loyalty program that provides peace of mind and investment protection. There are no surprises and never-worry migrations, Mandal pointed out. “So even with XtremIO and PowerMax, customers can pay for what they’re using,” he stated. “And then with CloudIQ, we can monitor the storage areas from the cloud,”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s
and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld conference. (* Disclosure: Dell Technologies Inc. sponsored this segment, with additional broadcast sponsorship from VMware Inc. Dell Technologies, VMware, and other sponsors do not have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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