PowerMax 8000

The newest enhancements to the PowerMax family raise the bar again for enterprise storage delivering unmatched levels of performance and consolidation for high-value, high-demand workloads of today and tomorrow. PowerMax supports 32Gb/s FC-NVMe to deliver on the promise of end-to-end NVMe, along with Storage Class Memory Drives (SCM) powered by dual port Intel® OptaneTM drives used as persistent storage. NVMe/FC and SCM can further reduce system latencies by up to 50%. The PowerMax 2000 and 8000 arrays provide all of the features and proven data services demanded of an enterprise active-active controller array including security, protection, availability, scalability, and massive consolidation, now delivered at latencies measured in microseconds, not milliseconds. PowerMax real-time machine learning optimizes storage performance using pattern recognition and automated data placement, without any overhead.

The PowerMax 8000 support end-to-end efficient encryption of data from the host to the PowerMax storage media. Efficient encryption utilizes an encryption agent on the host coupled with a hardware-based encryption option on the array that also preserves our data reduction (compression and inline dedupe) capabilities. Designed to be used in tandem with Data at Rest Encryption, this functionality provides true end-to-end data security. A single PowerMax Brick is architected to provide six nines (99.9999%) of availability in the most demanding, mission-critical environments. Utilizing the powerful family of Intel® Xeon® E5 processors, the PowerMax 2000 and 8000 support both global, inline compression and deduplication for at least a 50% gain in data efficiency over the previous generation of arrays.

The PowerMax 8000 redefines space efficiency with more than doubling the compute density by housing up to four Bricks in a single cabinet and up to eight Bricks in just two floor tiles. PowerMax arrays come fully preconfigured out of the factory to shorten the time to first I/O. Depending on the model, PowerMax arrays can support Open Systems, Mainframe, IBM i, and File all on the same array.