Dell Technologies crammed more than 500 updates into its trio of “Power” storage products and provided an update on its recently unveiled Project Alpine public cloud storage platform. Those updates come as the vendor is witnessing explosive growth in its product line.

The vendor’s PowerStore architecture gained more than 120 of those updates, which Dell said produce a 50% improvement in mixed workload performance and 66% more capacity. The platform also gained file-level retention, native file replication, and support for third-party file monitoring and ransomware protection.

PowerStore now digs deeper into VMware’s vSphere Virtual Volumes for less latency and a simplified disaster recovery using replication, virtual machine (VM)-level snapshots, and fast clones. The platform also now includes end-to-end non-volatile memory express (NVMe).

Dell PowerStore is an all-flash storage array that is marketed at the midrange of the market.

At the high end, Dell’s PowerMax gained more than 200 features, including cyber resiliency updates that support cyber vaults that work on traditional and mainframe deployments. This includes features like multifactor authentication, continuous ransomware anomaly detection, and a native air-gap cyber vault.

Shannon Champions, VP of primary storage HCI and HCI marketing at Dell, explained during a press briefing that the platform now runs on a new architecture that enables “multinode scale out, massive scale and efficiency, and doubling the performance for the new PowerMax.”

The final updates are to Dell’s PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure. It gains file capabilities for traditional network-attached storage (NAS) use cases and transactional NAS workloads that work with existing block storage services to provide unified storage capabilities.

PowerFlex also now supports standards-based NVMe over TCP for easier deployments, and unified storage, compute, and lifecycle management of cloud-native workloads and DevOps orchestration.

All three platforms will actually see the updates during the third quarter.

Champion also noted that Dell was continuing to evolve its Project Alpine that was unveiled earlier this year. The platform brings Dell’s block and file storage software to major public clouds, and it can be delivered as a software or as a fully managed service.

“One of the biggest value props is the fact that because we're building this off of our existing storage software, you can take advantage of things like the native mobility replication technologies to move data from on prem to the cloud and back seamlessly without having to use any new tools, without having to retrain staff,” Champion said.

This new platform joins what has been a hot market for Dell. Champion noted that the vendor’s storage orders last quarter grew at their fastest rate since it integrated the EMC product line.

“In mid-range, our storage orders were up double digits and power store … remains our fastest ramping new storage architecture in history,” Champion said. “Last quarter, we also saw a 25% demand growth for unstructured storage solutions and double-digit demand growth in the high end as well.”