PowerStore is a highly adaptable platform that provides the flexibility to host specialized workloads directly on the appliance and to modernize your IT infrastructure without disruptions. PowerStore can provide both storage and on-board compute capabilities to offer analytics consumption flexibility in the face of a rapidly changing storage infrastructure. By eliminating the latency and overhead of the network layer, customers can take advantage of better application performance for data-intensive next-gen analytics simplifying their environment. PowerStore’s superior integration with vSphere results in streamlined management where storage resources plug directly into the visualization layer.

PowerStore combines flexible scaling with ease of management that greatly complements analytics applications’ scale-up and scale-out deployment models. Using the built-in hypervisor brings the scale for data storage when the workload requires it. New applications can be provisioned rapidly on the same or on additional appliances in multiple locations. Advanced clustering technology allows PowerStore to scale system capacity (up to 1PB raw per system) and provide processing power by clustering up to four appliances together. PowerStore provides a balanced approach to storage scalability, cost-effective scale-up capacity, and the ability to scale performance with an easy to manage deployment model as application needs continue to evolve.

PowerStore changes the way analytics database teams design and build analytic solutions. It is designed from the ground up to utilize the latest in storage and interface technologies to maximize application performance. PowerStore is architected to maximize performance with NVMe solid-state flash storage as well as Intel Optane Storage Class Memory (SCM), which provides performance approaching the speed of DRAM. Its multi-controller, scale-out architecture offers the highest levels of performance.

PowerStore is engineered with the ability to support storage in multiple formats bringing flexibility to a variety of applications, ranging from physical and virtual LUNs to containers to traditional files. It provides a single architecture for block, file, and VMware vVols leveraging the latest technologies to support a wide variety of traditional and modern workloads – from relational databases, to ERP and EHR apps, cloud native applications, and file-based workloads such as content repositories and home directories. This diverse support is achieved without sacrificing the cost-effective nature of midrange storage while providing cost-saving flexibility for IT to simplify and consolidate their infrastructure.

Using intelligent data placement, PowerStore improves system performance through the balanced provisioning of new appliance storage and the automated balancing of cluster resources. It determines the optimum provisioning of new volumes and identifies the changes required to maintain efficiency. Users can prioritize business-critical application volumes. With proactive monitoring and cloud-based analytics, PowerStore will simplify infrastructure planning and enhance system availability and performance. Health Scores provide operational status, available storage, connectivity, and performance alerts.