As businesses adapt to AI-driven workloads and more modular IT environments, Dell Technologies is stepping up with a comprehensive refresh across its storage and server portfolio.
These updates—spanning PowerEdge servers to PowerStore, PowerScale, ObjectScale, and PowerProtect—
are designed to help organizations handle traditional workloads and high-demand AI operations with more agility, scale, and cyber resilience.
Dell’s approach embraces disaggregated infrastructure—separating compute, storage, and networking into shared resource pools that scale independently, offering flexibility far beyond legacy three-tier or hyperconverged systems.
Next-Gen Storage: Smarter & AI-Ready
PowerStore
The latest PowerStore v4.1 software comes packed with AI-powered analytics, proactive issue detection, faster restores (up to 4x), and deeper integration with PowerProtect.
It now supports ransomware-resistant snapshots, enhanced QoS controls, smart card authentication, and even carbon footprint forecasting.
It’s also friendly for Unity users migrating over, with file archiving continuity via Cloud Tiering.
ObjectScale
Dell’s containerized object storage platform gets a major upgrade with ObjectScale v4.0—bringing better capacity management, health monitoring, and hardened cybersecurity.
New additions include the all-flash XF960 (optimized for AI throughput with double the performance of its predecessor) and the HDD-based X560, which boosts small object read performance by over 80%.
Dell also teamed up with Wasabi to launch hybrid cloud object storage, starting at 25 TB per month.
PowerScale
Dell enhances its scale-out file storage by introducing support for 122 TB SSDs in F710 and F910 all-flash nodes—doubling density and enabling nearly 6 PB per node.
The refreshed A and H series bring performance boosts and lower latency, thanks to new Xeon CPUs, faster DDR5 RAM, and NVMe-based vault drives.
A new 1RU A110 accelerator node improves compute-bound clusters, offering scalable bandwidth and performance on demand.
PowerEdge Servers & PowerProtect
PowerEdge Servers
Dell’s refreshed PowerEdge R470, R570, R670, and R770 now feature Intel Xeon 6 processors and are engineered for high-performance computing (HPC), AI inference, analytics, and virtualized workloads.
These servers are available in compact 1U/2U form factors and support both traditional and next-gen use cases.
PowerProtect Enhancements
Cyber resilience also gets a big upgrade. Dell’s new PowerProtect DD6410 targets small and remote environments with faster restores and powerful deduplication.
Meanwhile, the All-Flash Ready Node delivers lightning-fast backups and 5x the space efficiency—while using 36% less power.
A new PowerProtect DataManager update includes machine learning-driven anomaly detection to catch compromised backup assets and enhance recovery planning.
Support
DataManager now also supports Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat OpenShift, and offers long-term archiving to ObjectScale—no rehydration required.
Additionally, Multi-System Reporting simplifies management across up to 150 DataManager deployments.
A Unified Push Toward AI-Optimized, Resilient Infrastructure
Arthur Lewis, President of Dell’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, summed it up:
“From storage to servers to data protection, Dell delivers an end-to-end infrastructure stack that simplifies IT and speeds up modernization.”
These updates reflect Dell’s commitment to empowering businesses with the tools to scale AI, ensure cyber resilience, and reduce IT complexity—one refresh at a time.
