Blog How Dell PowerStore Is Redefining Infrastructure Efficiency

Key takeaways

• The IT landscape is shifting rapidly, driven by data growth and AI.
• Most enterprise data remains on-premises, with many organizations repatriating workloads from the cloud.
• Modernizing infrastructure is essential for controlling costs and enabling agility.
• Insight and Dell provide the expertise and solutions to help you optimize and scale.

Feeling the pressure of rising costs and relentless data growth? Discover how Insight and Dell help you regain control and modernize your infrastructure for what’s next.

You’re facing a rapidly-changing IT landscape — data is growing, costs are rising, and the pressure to modernize is relentless. In the Power Up Infrastructure, Cut Down Costs webinar, Insight and Dell experts shared how you can take control of your infrastructure strategy and prepare for what’s next.

Why modernization matters for you

According to expert Chris Neas, Partner Development Manager, Primary Data Storage, Dell EMC, “We are currently living through arguably the most important slash monumental period in the IT industry that we’ve seen over the last three decades.”^¹ The drivers? Explosive data growth, the rise of AI, and a shift in where and how workloads are run.

• AI’s impact: “81% of industries out there believe that AI is going to transform their business or their industry in some shape, form, or fashion.”^¹
• Data location: “83% of all the data that exists in the world today, it’s on-prem.”^¹
• Cloud repatriation: “83% of enterprise CIOs are talking about repatriating workloads... moving things from the public cloud back on-prem.”^¹

You may have moved workloads to the cloud for flexibility, but as Andrew Smith from Insight notes, “The numbers might have been very different than what were planned or what were anticipated. Then you have that along with some of the performance challenges that customers realized... we need to start having more on-prem infrastructure to address some of the cost challenges and some of the performance challenges.”^¹

Moving beyond the “easy button”

You might have relied on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for simplicity, but as Neas explains, “If you were to ask me — ‘Chris, what was the most predominant infrastructure over the last 10 years?’ — without hesitation, I would say Hyperconverged infrastructure, period... But again, when I say this is where things are getting interesting, back to all of these market dynamics, this is where we’re seeing a change today.”^¹

The future, according to Dell, is disaggregated infrastructure — where you can scale compute, storage, and networking independently, managed through automation and orchestration. This shift empowers you to optimize resources, reduce costs, and prepare for AI-driven workloads.

What Dell PowerStore means for you

In the Power Up Infrastructure, Cut Down Costs webinar, Neas outlined the core strengths of PowerStore. Here’s how he described what sets PowerStore apart:

• Data reduction: “PowerStore achieves continuous data efficiency without compromising application performance, and... can shrink your data center’s physical and energy footprint by up to 54%.”^¹
• Modernization: “Every time a new iteration of PowerStore comes out... you seamlessly, non-disruptively, with no cost whatsoever, get to update that, kind of like you would update your iPhone.”^¹
• AI-ready: “PowerStore is enterprise-class storage in a mid-range package, period. It’s got all of the bells and whistles. It packs a punch.”^¹
• Flexible scalability: “Independently, we scale up and scale out so we can add more storage. If you want to, you can add arrays that cluster, upwards of four, not to mention you can mix and match arrays within that cluster to accommodate various workloads.”^¹
• Autonomous operations: “From an autonomous standpoint, when we talk about programmable infrastructure, we have a highly intelligent and automated API. So easier than ever before, we can plug into VMware, connect to Kubernetes, and really accelerate automation and orchestration workflows through Ansible.”^¹

What’s in it for you?

• Modernize your infrastructure for agility, efficiency, and innovation.
• Achieve greater savings and future-ready performance.
• Rely on Insight for a seamless, client-centric modernization journey.

Citations:
¹ Power of Infrastructure Webinar Transcript (Speakers: Chris Neas, Dell; Andrew Smith, Insight)

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