PowerMax plans for Storage Class Memory and NVMeoF

In a recent article for The Register, Chris Mellor discussed PowerMax and some of our plans for 2019. In summary, we designed PowerMax specifically because we could see Storage Class Memory (SCM) as the coming media for the most important (and I/O intensive) data. We designed PowerMax to use all NVMe media, so that SCM would be just another type of capacity we could exploit. We designed the encryption so that SCM would be protected just like our other media. The Machine Intelligence classifies workloads, so that the most important data can get the benefit of this new (and expensive) media without any additional effort from customers using PowerMax arrays – it will just work. As we noted at Dell Technologies World last year, we plan to deliver SCM for all PowerMax systems this year. And to complete the NVMe picture, we plan to ship NVMe over Fibre Channel fabrics this year as well, giving us NVMe from the host to cache to the drives, providing customers with even lower latency I/O.