At petabyte scale, even the smallest inefficiencies can cost millions in wasted resources and lost productivity. Legacy storage wasn’t built for this level of growth—leading to bottlenecks, downtime risks, and escalating costs.
That’s why we created PowerFlex Ultra with the Scalable Availability Engine—purpose-built to deliver uncompromising resiliency, performance, and efficiency for enterprises operating at massive scale.
The Challenge: When scale creates complexity
For enterprises managing massive data environments, traditional storage systems add complexity instead of reducing it. Simply stacking more hardware or extending architectures designed for smaller workloads does not unlock the full value of large-scale repositories.
What enterprises need is not incremental change, but a storage foundation designed for consistent resiliency, predictable performance, and operational simplicity at scale.
Why PowerFlex is different
PowerFlex is proven in some of the world’s largest environments, designed for organizations where data growth is relentless and efficiency is non-negotiable.
With PowerFlex, enterprises gain:
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- Scale-Out Freedom – Optimize compute and storage resources independently, growing as business needs evolve.
- Intelligent Automation – Simplify operations and free IT teams to focus on strategy, not firefighting.
- Unified Management Across Clouds – Seamlessly manage data across on-prem, private, and hybrid clouds with one consistent control plane.
- Resource Efficiency – Eliminate waste and maximize IT investments, turning infrastructure into a true business accelerator.
The scalable availability engine: A leap forward
The PowerFlex Ultra release introduces the Scalable Availability Engine (SAE)—a rearchitected, fully distributed, erasure-coded architecture built to transform how enterprises achieve efficiency and resiliency at scale.
SAE brings together consolidation, resiliency, and performance in a single architecture designed to power the next decade of enterprise data growth.
The SAE advantage
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- Maximized Efficiency – Up to 80% storage efficiency¹, reducing power, space, and cooling for a more sustainable, cost-effective data center.
- Scalable Performance – Parallel processing across nodes delivers sub-millisecond latency and enterprise-class throughput for demanding workloads.
- Unmatched Resiliency – 10-nines availability2 with built-in fault tolerance, ensuring continuous access even during failures.
- Massive Consolidation – High-density capacity reduces footprint by over 50%3, simplifies infrastructure, and eliminates silos.
In short: less space, less cost, more availability—without compromise.
What customers are saying
“The PowerFlex Ultra release is a true leap forward in enterprise storage. It equips organizations to achieve greater efficiency and resiliency, and the feedback we’re hearing from customers is unanimous: they can’t wait to get it!” — John Lochausen, Technical Solutions Architect, WWT
Our commitment to enterprise innovation
PowerFlex Ultra isn’t just another software update—it’s a transformative step forward for enterprises navigating today’s explosive data growth. With SAE, organizations finally have a storage platform designed for both today’s demands and tomorrow’s opportunities.
In a world where enterprise success depends on resilient, efficient, and scalable infrastructure, PowerFlex delivers a strategic advantage.
The future is bold. Let’s make it yours—together.
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1¹ Based on Dell internal testing, using 11-node PowerFlex 5.0 cluster versus previous generation PowerFlex software. May 2025
2 Based on Dell internal analysis. May 2025
3 Based on Dell internal analysis. September 2025
