Dell’s storage product lineup is about to obtain a variety of updates, together with devops integrations with the Ansible and Terraform instruments, compliance with the newest US authorities safety requirements, zero trust readiness and extra.
PowerStore, Dell’s flash-based storage array line, is receiving the lion’s share of the safety updates, in accordance with a Dell announcement on Wednesday. Dell mentioned that PowerStore now boasts STIG hardening, that means that it’s compliant with the federal authorities’s stanadards for its personal networks. PowerStore additionally acquired safe and immutable snapshot expertise, which ought to make for extra dependable and harder-to-compromise recoveries. Multifactor authentication, streamlined file resiliency (which provides extra mounted snapshots per system) and direct administration of file permissions from inside PowerStore are additionally being added.
PowerStore will get added backup choices
The system additionally acquired native integration into Dell’s PowerProtect knowledge administration system, additional bolstering an end-user’s backup and knowledge safety choices. The corporate mentioned that the thought right here is to supply extra compression in backups and simpler configuration choices. Integration with open supply frameworks Ansible and Terraform enable for devops employees to make use of the PowerStore system natively, which implies they’ll design automated processes for storage provisioning “with out low-level coding,” Dell mentioned. (Ansible assist was additionally added for Dell’s Unity XT hybrid storage providing.)
Additional enhancements throughout the corporate’s storage portfolio embody native air hole assist for the PowerMax mission-critical storage system, enhanced NVMe and TCP for the PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure platform and improved S3 object storage efficiency in ObjectScale. Lastly, the corporate’s ClouIdIQ AIOps software program will obtain VMware integration.
The enhancements to PowerStore, in accordance with Gartner senior director analyst Jeff Vogel, are primarily fulfilling necessities for business-critical functions for mid-size enterprise clients.
“As for PowerFlex, it’s an essential, trendy cloud-like structure for software-defined, elastic and scalable hybrid infrastructure platform storage that may reap the benefits of the advantages of and end-end NVMe fabric-based infrastructure utilizing TCP,” he mentioned. “This new structure bridges enterprise storage with customary Ethernet-based networking, reducing infrastructure prices and simplifying the setting.”
A spokesperson for Dell mentioned that the enhancements introduced Wednesday are free to all present clients, and that “no different pricing modifications are related to the launch.” New options in PowerMax, CloudIQ and Unity XT can be found as of now. PowerStore and ObjectScale updates shall be accessible as of June, whereas the brand new options in PowerFlex will go reside within the third quarter of this yr.
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