Market migration to the cloud has created a push for updated data storage and management processes in the enterprise. As information technology companies work to fill the need for a modern data center, Dell Technologies Inc.’s experience in both old and new tech gives it a unique perspective as a partner in virtual data transition.

“When you are running an application, you need compute, storage and network, so it really had to have a modern infrastructure to cover all those bases. … Our compute capabilities [include] new servers, as well as new storage offering from Dell EMC, the PowerMax,” said Adnan Sahin (pictured), senior director of engineering and distinguished engineer at Dell EMC.

Sahin spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Lisa Martin (@LuccaZara), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas. They discussed the details of PowerMax and how the new system integrates a range of data needs. (* Disclosure below.)

Availability, resilience and operational simplicity

The progression of media interfacing from serial attached small computer system interface-connected drives to non-volatile memory express and peripheral component interconnect express is the driving force behind Dell’s revamp of its VMAX system to PowerMax, which aims to reduce latency and increase flexibility.

“PowerMax is a scale-out, multi-controller architecture. … We need to have persistent storage accessible through multiple controllers. … So in order to be highly resilient and highly available … we need multi-ported, dual-ported drives,” Sahin said.

These new enhancements enable customers to obtain better insights from data and utilize it across more aspects of businesses, achieving more effective digital transformations with less work. “[The] main driver is availability, resilience … [and] operational simplicity. … We have simplified our user … experience significantly over the years so that fewer people can manage larger capacities of the systems,” Sahin said.

With the assistance of these new tools, Sahin believes enterprises can more confidently adopt new emerging tech, like machine learning, artificial intelligence and the “internet of things” into business processes. “You want to make sure that you have local application capability, as well as remote application disaster recovery. … Our infrastructure gives customers that type of mission critical. You can not take in chances in this day and age with these applications,” he concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Technologies World 2018 event. (* Disclosure: Dell EMC sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell EMC nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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