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PowerMax 2500

PowerMax

The world’s most secure mission-critical storage.
Faster performance
Up to

50%

Industry’s best

5:1

More Sustainable
Up to

82%

Why choose Dell PowerMax

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Resilient and secure

Safeguard your data with the highest levels of cybersecurity to prevent, detect, and recover from cyberattacks. PowerMax accelerates the journey to Zero Trust with hardware root-of-trust, ransomware anomaly detection, mission-critical availability for your VMware deployments and the most granular cyber recovery at scale (up to 65M snaps).

Automated operations

Get results faster with AI-driven performance optimization, self-healing capabilities, and automation for repetitive tasks. Each system comes with built-in machine learning for predictive analytics and pattern recognition. Maximize performance with no overhead and seamlessly move workloads with intelligent data mobility. Attain the lowest latency with AI-driven dynamic cache optimization.

Modern scale-out architecture

Consolidate workloads at scale by adding compute and media elements independently with integrated, modern NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit (DPU) technology. Deliver predictable performance and access any flash drive in the system from any node on the fabric, regardless of physical location.

Breakthrough energy efficiency

PowerMax offers real-time power and environmental monitoring and alerting with advancements in energy efficiency, storage density and data reduction. Store more data, with 80% power savings per terabyte. Dell offers a 5:1 data reduction guarantee for open systems and 3:1 data reduction guarantee for mainframe data and monitor power usage at the array, rack, and data center level to achieve your sustainability goals.

Where PowerMax Excels

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Engage with extensive PowerMax demos and hands-on interactive experiences around PowerMaxOS management along with performance, replication, and capacity optimization capabilities.
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Future-Proof Program

Maximize your investments with benefits that span storage, data protection, networking, and servers.
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Payment Solutions

Whether you are looking to pay for technology as you use it, rotate your technology every few years, manage your cash flow or finance your software purchases, we have a solution for you.**
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DATA SHEET

PowerMax 2500 & 8500

PowerMax 2500 & 8500 offer the first automated end-to-end NVMe/TCP deployment and most secure mission-critical storage matched with unbeatable speed.
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Ready for anything with all-flash NVMe storage

With extreme capacity and adaptability, PowerMax is the industry’s most scalable storage replication software.
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Blazing-fast direct backups and restores

Achieve blazing-fast direct backups and restores with PowerMax and PowerProtect Data Domain.
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Supercharge Energy-Efficiency & Cybersecurity

Achieve new levels of energy efficiency, AI-driven automation, cybersecurity with the latest PowerMaxOS release.
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Next-generation PowerMax

The new architecture, features, and functions of PowerMax 2500 and 8500 meet the demands our customers face.
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Top reasons to choose PowerMax

Read why customers deploy PowerMax for trusted, intelligent, and innovative storage solutions for mission-critical data.
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The future of high-end storage

Redefine modern storage with powerful architecture, simple operation, and trusted innovation from PowerMax.
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Deliver performance and scalability

Next-generation PowerMax transforms cybersecurity, data reduction, and intelligent automation.
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Dell PowerMax innovates

Innovating to Make Datacenters Efficient and Sustainable
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Designed for VMware environments

Achieve new levels of performance and operational efficiency for today’s demanding VMware environments with PowerMax.
DATA SHEET

PowerMax 2000 & 8000

PowerMax 2000 & 8000 simplify operations and save capacity while powering performance-demanding workloads.