Multicloud and data mobility are putting heavy demands on storage. Vendors are responding with multitasking arrays with legs for trekking the distributed-IT circuit. With its new PowerStore all-flash array, Dell EMC aims to solve tricky edge-compute and data-migration issues.

“What we’ve done with PowerStore, we’ve taken storage and brought compute into it,” said Caitlin Gordon (pictured), vice president of marketing at Dell Technologies Inc.

The combo pack provides a means to collapse and simplify storage and data sharing from data center to cloud to edge.

Gordon spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, for a CUBEConversation at our studio in Boston, Massachusetts. They discussed the PowerStore announcement and the need for versatility in a modern storage solution. (* Disclosure below.)

Onboarding data and journeying to the edge

The PowerStore array is uniquely adaptable for companies in the midst of transformation that are concerned about acquiring technical debt, Gordon explained. Its architecture is based on containers, a virtualized method for running distributed applications. This allows Dell to innovate on a container basis, making for swift upgrades that do not disrupt the operations of users.

The array also features a modular software operating system, which can can be abstracted from the underlying hardware. VMware Inc.’s ESXi bare-metal hypervisor can be onboarded so that users can then run both the storage OS and applications natively on the appliance.

The storage system coupled with compute cures a lot of data-migration headaches, according to Gordon. “We’ve actually optimized this to the point where we now enable you to move data from an existing platform to PowerStore in less than 10 clicks,” she said. 

PowerStore collapses infrastructure and treats it as code for a small, manageable footprint at the edge, according to Gordon. “You can automate all of those storage workloads, taking out all of the additional cost and time and, probably most importantly, risks of manual tasks,” she stated. 

PowerStore performs seven times faster than Dell’s previous mid-range, all-flash solutions, with three times better response times, Gordon concluded. 

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s CUBE Conversations. (* Disclosure: Dell Technologies Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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