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Against a background of disaggregated IT and rising AI trends, Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale, and PowerProtect storage systems.

Dell is announcing both server and storage advances. It says its customers need to support existing and traditional workloads as well as provide IT for generative AI tasks. A disaggregated server, storage, and networking architecture is best suited for this and builds on three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructure designs, with separate scaling for the three components collected together in shared resource pools.

Dell Infrastructure Solutions Group president Arthur Lewis stated: “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 datacenter modernization.”

Dell’s PowerEdge R470, R570, R670, and R770 servers are equipped with Intel Xeon 6 processors with performance cores. These are single and double-socket servers in 1U and 2U form factors designed for traditional and emerging workloads like HPC, virtualization, analytics, and AI inference.

Our focus here is on the storage product announcements, which cover the unified file and block PowerStore arrays, cloud-native ObjectScale, scale-out clustered PowerScale filer system, and Dell’s deduplicating backup target PowerProtect systems developed from prior Data Domain array