Dell Technologies Unveils AI-Ready Infrastructure Innovations for Modern Data Centers

Dell lays out broad set of enhancements aimed at data center modernization - SiliconANGLE

Dell lays out broad set of enhancements aimed at data center modernization Dell Technologies Inc. today introduced enhancements across its server, storage and data protection portfolios aimed at advancing customers' data center modernization initiatives. The announcements advance Dell's strategy of promoting what it calls "disaggregated infrastructure." "We believe it is the new paradigm for how organizations are thinking about their traditional and modern workloads," said Varun Chhabra, senior vice president of infrastructure and telecom marketing. "This aggregated infrastructure offers shared resource pools where compute, storage and networking can be applied." New PowerEdge R470, R570, R670 and R770 servers (pictured) feature Intel Corp. Xeon 6 Processors with P-cores in single- and double-socket configurations designed to handle high-performance computing, virtualization, analytics and artificial intelligence inferencing. Dell said they save up to half of the energy costs of previous server generations while supporting up to 50% more cores per processors and 67% better performance. They feature the Dell Modular Hardware System architecture, which is based on Open Compute Project standards. Dell OpenManage enhancements and Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller updates provide real-time monitoring, while the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller for PCIe Gen 5 hardware reduces write latency up to 33-fold. "They provide over 2.5 times the number of cores per processor, which allows customers to scale to meet the needs of their traditional as well as modern workloads," Chhabra said. New PowerStore software includes AI-powered analytics that deliver alerts and remediation advice, performance headroom analytics and carbon footprint forecasting. Security has been improved with Department of Defense-compliant smart card authentication, automated certificate renewal and enhanced Storage Direct Protection integrations that deliver up to four times faster restore times. "We obtained approved product status from the U.S. Department of Defense last year, and we will continue to make progress on that front with smart card support for multi-factor authentication," said Drew Schulke, vice president in Dell's Infrastructure Solutions Group. "This is going to meet the most stringent requirements from both federal agencies and our most security-sensitive customers." System performance has been enhanced with better file management capabilities, secure file snapshots, capacity analysis for storage planning and streamlined migration from Dell Unity systems. PowerEdge and PowerStore products and enhancements are now available. Enhancements to the Dell ObjectScale object storage management system expand capacity to support eight times greater density on the ObjectScale X560 appliance compared to previous all-flash systems. Enhanced efficiency and resiliency features include multisite federation, copy-to-cloud features, geo-replication global namespace and data governance capabilities developed in collaboration with Wasabi Technologies Inc. The appliances will be available beginning in September. Improvements to the PowerScale scale-out flash storage portfolio target AI data management, featuring 122-terabyte solid-state drives that provide up to 6 petabytes of high-speed data access in a single 2U node configuration. Hybrid and archival storage nodes now feature updated computing modules, improving latency and performance on extensive AI datasets. The enhancements will be available this month. In the area of data protection, the new PowerProtect DD6410 appliance for small businesses and remote offices features faster restore speeds and better data deduplication. The All-Flash Ready Node, which Dell described as "the first step in Dell's all-flash data protection journey," now offered 61% faster restores, reduced power consumption and an 80% smaller physical footprint. Updates to the PowerProtect Data Manager improve security monitoring through anomaly detection, virtualization support for Microsoft Corp. Hyper-V and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization virtual machine backups and easy archiving to Dell ObjectScale for long-term retention. "Users have made it very clear that they're looking for alternatives to VMware in light of recent events," said David Noy, vice president of product management, unstructured data solutions and data protection, referring to price increases imposed by Broadcom Inc. on its VMware Inc. product line. "So we've added the capability to back up Hyper-V virtual machines and OpenShift virtualization. We have a number of other virtualization technologies in the works for easier long-term data archiving."

Dell Technologies Unveils Infrastructure Innovations Built to Power Modern AI-Ready Data Centers

Dell introduces innovations across its industry-leading infrastructure portfolio to help customers accelerate their data center modernization journeys Server, storage and data protection advancements help customers easily meet the needs of traditional and modern workloads with improved performance, efficiency and scalability Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) introduces advancements across its industry-leading server, storage and data protection portfolios designed to help organizations achieve data center modernization. Why It Matters: Organizations are rethinking their IT strategies to respond to the rise of AI, the need to support both traditional and modern workloads and increased cyber threats. IT teams are moving toward disaggregated infrastructure that abstracts compute, storage and networking into shared resource pools to deliver improved scalability, efficiency and adaptability. Dell Technologies server, storage and data protection innovations are designed to help customers rethink their IT infrastructure approach to better meet the needs of traditional and modern workloads. Dell PowerEdge servers deliver advanced performance, energy efficiency and scalability Dell PowerEdge R470, R570, R670 and R770 servers with Intel Xeon 6 Processors with P-cores are single and double-socket servers in 1U and 2U form factors that easily handle demanding traditional and emerging workloads like HPC, virtualization, analytics and AI inferencing: Improves Workload Consolidation: Consolidate legacy platforms, freeing up power and up to 80% of space per 42U rack with the Dell PowerEdge R770. These systems save up to half of the energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions, and support up to 50% more cores per processors1 and 67% increased performance.2 This reduces data center footprints to help achieve sustainability goals and lower overall total cost of ownership without sacrificing performance. Delivers Extreme Power with Efficiency: The powerful and efficient Dell PowerEdge R570 achieves record-breaking Intel performance per watt, helping enterprises save on energy costs while maintaining high performance workloads.3 Future-Ready Designs: Simplify and future-proof operations with the Data Center - Modular Hardware System (DC-MHS) architecture, as part of the Open Compute Project (OCP). DC-MHS standardizes server design, supporting easier integration into existing infrastructure, improving customer choice. Streamlined management: PowerEdge servers deliver streamlined management and robust protection through Dell OpenManage enhancements and Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (IDRAC 10) updates, including real-time monitoring. When paired with PERC13 PCIe Gen 5 HW Raid controller, customers can see up to a 33X reduction in write latency.4 Dell PowerStore boosts performance and security while simplifying data management Dell PowerStore's intelligent software design delivers an automated, highly programmable platform with advanced data reduction and independently scalable storage services suited to the needs of modern disaggregated architectures. PowerStore's latest software release delivers: AI-Powered Analytics: Reduce cost and eliminate manual effort with Smart Support alerts and remediation, performance headroom analytics and carbon footprint forecasting using Dell AIOps (formerly CloudIQ) software. Enhanced Zero-Trust Security: Control access and boost availability with DoD smart card authentication support, automated certificate renewal and enhanced Storage Direct Protection integrations that deliver up to 4X faster backup restores5 plus support for the latest Dell PowerProtect systems. Advanced File System Support: Enhance system performance with advanced file management capabilities, robust data protection with secure file snapshots, capacity insights for smarter storage planning and streamlined migration from Dell Unity systems. The next generation of Dell ObjectScale drives improved performance and scale Dell introduces the next generation of Dell ObjectScale, the industry's highest-performing object platform.6 Dell ObjectScale delivers massive scalability, performance and efficiency for AI workloads. Dell is modernizing the enterprise-grade architecture of ObjectScale and introducing new all-flash and HDD appliance options to provide: Fast Object for AI: Innovate faster with the industry-leading AI workload performance of ObjectScale XF960, delivering up to 2X greater throughput per node than the closest competitor7 and up to 8X greater density than previous-generation all-flash systems.8 Accelerate Modern Workloads: HDD-based Dell ObjectScale X560 accelerates key workloads like media ingest, backups and AI model training with 83% faster read throughput.9 Extreme Efficiency and Resiliency: Easily operate and secure AI data lakes with multi-site federation, copy-to-cloud, geo-replication, global namespace and data governance capabilities, backed by a new hybrid cloud solution powered by ObjectScale, developed in collaboration with Wasabi. Dell PowerScale innovations unlock the power of AI data Dell PowerScale's scale-out architecture makes it ideal to use as the backbone for modern AI-driven operations. Advancements improve performance-per-terabyte, enhance data center floorspace utilization and balance affordability with performance to optimize TCO. High Density All-Flash Storage: 122TB SSDs maximize GPU utilization with up to 6 PBs10 of high-speed data access in a single 2U node configuration and deliver leading performance density to meet massive AI throughput requirements. Hybrid and Archive Nodes: PowerScale A & H series nodes (H710, H7100, A310, A3100) deliver reduced latency and improved performance with a refreshed compute module for HDD-based platforms. Customers can future proof their data centers and retain AI training data longer with a flexible, TCO-optimized portfolio mix to improve accuracy and efficiency. Dell PowerProtect improves cyber resilience with greater performance and efficiency Dell, the industry leader in purpose-built backup appliances11, introduces data protection updates designed to help customers strengthen their cyber resilience while controlling costs with enhanced performance, security and efficiency: Scalable and Efficient Data Protection for All: Dell PowerProtect DD6410, with a capacity of 12 TB to 256 TB, is ideal for commercial, small business and remote site environments. It delivers up to 91% faster restores and scalability for traditional and modern workloads plus efficient operations with industry-leading up to 65X deduplication.12 All-Flash Performance and Efficiency: Dell PowerProtect All-Flash Ready Node, the first step in Dell's all-flash data protection journey, delivers more secure and efficient data protection with a 220 TB capacity system that offers over 61% faster restore speeds, uses up to 36% less power, and features a 5X smaller footprint.13 Strengthened Enterprise Resiliency: PowerProtect Data Manager updates help customers quickly identify security risks with Anomaly Detection, manage Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization virtual machine backups and easily archive data to Dell ObjectScale for long-term retention. Perspectives: "Modern applications require a new breed of infrastructure that will help customers keep pace with everchanging data center demands," said Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies. "From storage to servers to networking to data protection, only Dell Technologies provides an end-to-end disaggregated infrastructure portfolio that helps customers reduce complexity, increase IT agility and accelerate data center modernization." Venkat Sitaram, Senior Director & Country Head, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies India, said, "At Dell Technologies, we are committed to empowering our clients to modernize their data centers with cutting-edge advancements across our server, storage, and data protection portfolios. From enhanced performance and scalability in PowerEdge servers to AI-powered analytics in PowerStore, unmatched resilience with PowerProtect, and seamless integration with ObjectScale for unstructured data, our innovations are designed to meet the evolving demands of AI, modern workloads, and cybersecurity. Together, we're not just keeping up with the digital age -- we're shaping its future." "Organizations are refocusing their IT strategies to take a disaggregated approach to infrastructure that improves resource management and simplifies management complexity," said Simon Robinson, principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia. "Dell Technologies is delivering updates across its infrastructure portfolio designed to help customers easily overcome these challenges so that they're ready to manage any workload." Availability Dell PowerEdge R470, R570, R670 and R770 servers featuring Intel Xeon 6 Processors with P-cores and E-cores are available now. Dell PowerStore software updates are available now. Dell ObjectScale is available now as a software update for current Dell ECS environments. HDD-based ObjectScale X560 will be available in April 2025. All-Flash ObjectScale appliances will be available beginning in Q3 CY2025. Dell PowerScale HDD-based nodes will be available in June 2025. Dell PowerScale with 122TB drives will be available in May 2025. Dell PowerProtect DD6410 and All-Flash Ready Node will be available in April 2025. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager updates are available now. Additional resources Connect with Dell on X and LinkedIn Blog: Rapidly Evolve Business Operations with PowerEdge Rack Servers Blog: The Future of IT Runs on Smarter Storage Blog: Next: Redefining Performance and Scale for the AI Era Blog: Futureproof Your Data Center with PowerScale Innovations Blog: The Cyber Resilient Data Center in the Age of AI CONTACT: Media Relations: [email protected] # # # Copyright © 2025 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved. Dell Technologies and Dell are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners. Based on Dell analysis comparing the SPECint and SPECFP scores of the Dell PowerEdge R770 with Intel 6th Gen Xeon SP 6787P (1550 and 1560) with the same scores for an Intel Xeon 8280 in a Dell PowerEdge R740XD ( 375 and 296). The ratio of the scores shows that 5 of the R740xd servers would give a total score similar to that for the single R770 as configured above. The Energy costs and green house gases are calculated from EIPT tool- https://dell-ui-eipt.azurewebsites.net/#/. Actual performance will vary. Spec Results submitted on March 10, 2025, done in Dell Perf labs. Based on Dell testing with Servers at Dell Performance Labs on March 10 2025 for Dell PowerEdge R770 with Intel 6th Gen Xeon SP 6787P (86 cores) with CPU INT Rate Base of 1550 as compared to R760 with 5th gen 8592+ (64 cores) score 1070 and compared to R760 with 4th gen Intel xeon SP 8480+ (56 cores) score of 976. Based on Dell testing with Servers at Dell Performance Labs and publicly available performance results submitted on https://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008/results/ on March 10 2025 for Dell PowerEdge R570 with Intel 6th Gen Xeon SP 6787P (86 cores) which achieved average Perf/watt 21,089 as compared to all submissions on 2U, 1 Socket with 6787P CPU. Based on Dell and Broadcom testing on PowerEdge R770 with Intel Xeon 6th Gen CPU, for System Responsiveness, the Write latency has been reduced from over 200 microseconds to just 6 microseconds, a 33x improvement that directly impacts application performance. Actual results may vary. Based on internal testing of restore performance using Storage Direct Protection between PowerStore 5200T and DD6900. Based on Dell internal analysis of publicly available data as of Mar. 2025. Dell performance is based on large object read throughput per node and cluster configurations configured with ObjectScale XF960 and Ethernet networking. Actual results may vary. Based on Dell internal analysis of publicly available data as of Mar. 2025. Dell performance is based on large object read throughput per node and cluster configurations configured with ObjectScale XF960 and Ethernet networking. Actual results may vary. Based on Dell analysis comparing highest planned drive capacity options on ObjectScale XF960 compared to available drive capacity options on ECS EXF900, Mar. 2025. Based on Dell analysis comparing ObjectScale X560 with 4.0 to ECS EX500 with 3.8 for small-object reads, Mar. 2025. Actual results may vary. Based on effective capacity analysis considering data reduction on an appropriately configured cluster with 122TB SSDs (Releasing May 28th, 2025). PowerScale also guarantees a 2:1 Data reduction ratio, See terms and conditions for details at: dr-guarantee-tc-powerscale.pdf (delltechnologies.com) Based on revenue from the IDC 4Q24 Purpose-Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) Tracker. Based on Dell internal testing comparing a PowerProtect DD6410 appliance vs. a PowerProtect DD6400 appliance. Based on Dell internal testing comparing a PowerProtect Data Domain All-Flash Ready Node vs. a PowerProtect DD6410 appliance, February 2025. Actual results may vary.

Dell Technologies Unveils Infrastructure Innovations Built to Power Modern AI-Ready Data Centers

Strengthened Enterprise Resiliency: PowerProtect Data Manager updates help customers quickly identify security risks with Anomaly Detection, manage Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization virtual machine backups and easily archive data to Dell ObjectScale for long-term retention. "Modern applications require a new breed of infrastructure that will help customers keep pace with everchanging data center demands," said Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies. "From storage to servers to networking to data protection, only Dell Technologies provides an end-to-end disaggregated infrastructure portfolio that helps customers reduce complexity, increase IT agility and accelerate data center modernization." Venkat Sitaram, Senior Director & Country Head, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies India, said, "At Dell Technologies, we are committed to empowering our clients to modernize their data centers with cutting-edge advancements across our server, storage, and data protection portfolios. From enhanced performance and scalability in PowerEdge servers to AI-powered analytics in PowerStore, unmatched resilience with PowerProtect, and seamless integration with ObjectScale for unstructured data, our innovations are designed to meet the evolving demands of AI, modern workloads, and cybersecurity. Together, we're not just keeping up with the digital age -- we're shaping its future." "Organizations are refocusing their IT strategies to take a disaggregated approach to infrastructure that improves resource management and simplifies management complexity," said Simon Robinson, principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia. "Dell Technologies is delivering updates across its infrastructure portfolio designed to help customers easily overcome these challenges so that they're ready to manage any workload."