On the second day of the Dell Technologies World keynote, topics from enterprise storage and AI servers to cyber resilience and private cloud automation, the centerpiece of the announcement is the new Dell PowerStore Elite platform.
This new tier combines refreshed hardware with AI-driven software optimisations to deliver up to 3x more performance and throughput compared to previous PowerStore systems, while also packing up to 5.8PB of effective capacity into a single 3U chassis. The system supports block, file, virtual machine, and container workloads, with existing PowerStore customers capable of accessing the new platform without disruptive migrations or downtime.
Designed for efficiency and flexibility, customers may also choose between TLC or QLC media without worrying about major performance tradeoffs because the platform’s Autonomous Data Path intelligence applies machine learning at the I/O level to optimise storage behaviour dynamically, while new software features like Metadata Acceleration provide faster reads, enhanced compression offloads and unaligned deduplication for unstructured data to improve usable capacity without impacting workload performance.
On the hardware side, PowerStore Elite moves to Intel Xeon Scalable processors alongside DDR5 memory, PCIe Gen 5 support, and a new 200Gb RDMA node interconnect alongside industry-standard E3 NVMe flash for reduced occurrence of vendor lock-in. Data reduction guarantee improved from 5:1 to 6:1, and existing clients are getting access to Dell’s Lifecycle Extension program, which allows data-in-place upgrades and mixed-generation clustering so organisations can modernise incrementally instead of replacing infrastructure wholesale.
As for PowerEdge offerings, the liquid-cooled PowerEdge M9825 with 6th Gen AMD EPYC processors occupies Dell IR7000 racks, while the new XE5845 and XE7845 servers focus on PCIe-based AI deployments with support for next-generation GPUs. Air-cooled servers like the PowerEdge R9825, R9815, R8815, and R6815 have been refreshed, too, with up to 70% better performance and enabling 13-to-1 consolidation ratios compared to previous generations.
Other notable announcements include:
- New PowerProtect One – Cyber resilience platform focusing on backups and storage protection, up to 50% management overhead can be reduced
- Cyber Detect – Now available in PowerStore and PowerMax
- Automation Platform – Deploy cloud stacks from vendors including Broadcom, Microsoft, Nutanix, and Red Hat on open disaggregated Dell infrastructure; Compute and storage can be scaled independently
- Automation Studio – New agentic AI-based features added
Availability
Dell says PowerStore Elite will become globally available in July, while several of the new PowerEdge systems are scheduled to roll out across 2H 2026 and into 2027.
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