Dell Technologies powered up its private cloud push with updates to cloud, storage, and cybersecurity platform lines and a corresponding expansion of platform availability with Nutanix.

The main thrust of the latest updates includes general availability of Dell’s Private Cloud platform, which was initially unveiled earlier this year. The platform designed as a disaggregated way to support private clouds that run cloud software from vendors like Broadcom, Nutanix, and Red Hat on Dell’s disaggregated infrastructure.

Varun Chhabra, SVP of product marketing at Dell Technologies, explained in a press briefing that the platform builds on the vendor’s Automation Platform to provide enterprises with more optionality.

“What the Dell Private Cloud does is provide investment protection through its open infrastructure approach that allows organizations to deploy a specific private cloud operating system or hypervisor solution as they choose, and then later to be able to actually re-image the hardware and deploy a completely different hypervisor solution, if they so choose to, but to be able to do that with the existing hardware and the existing capabilities for automation platform that they have acquired, and all they need to do is bring their own license for a new hypervisor, or a cloud solution, or private cloud solution,” Chhabra said.

This is an increasingly competitive landscape driven by Broadcom’s licensing changes to its VMware Cloud Platform (VCP) product that has dominated the space, with those changes providing a potential conquer opportunity for rivals like Nutanix and Red Hat.

This is an increasingly competitive landscape driven by Broadcom’s licensing changes to its VMware Cloud Platform (VCP) product that has dominated the space, with those changes providing a potential conquer opportunity for rivals like Nutanix and Red Hat.

Broad ‘Power’ updates

The private cloud platform can also tap into updated PowerStore, PowerMax, PowerFlex, and PowerProtect storage and cybersecurity products.

The latest PowerStore updates include a new 5200Q flash device that can scale up to 23 petabytes of byte-erasure (PBe) per cluster and can integrate with existing PowerStore clusters. There is also updated software with anomaly detection, single sign-on and biometric authentication, support for HashiCorp key management and replication over fiber channels.

The PowerFlex block storage platform gains a new “Ultra” option that adds a Scalabale Availability Engine to help workload management, broad efficiency updates, and improved data availability and resiliency.

The top-level PowerMax storage platform gains updated automation, quad-level cell drive support, and new security features loke single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID and encrypted email alerts.

Dell’s PowerProtect cybersecurity platform was also updated with a new entry-level appliance targeted at remote office and resource constrained environments, and a software-defined data manager appliance providing centralized management of an enterprise’s cybersececurity architecture.

Nutanix integration expands

Dell Technologies is also working through integrating PowerStore into Nutanix’s Cloud Platform. This will provide those Nutanix users with access to PowerStore’s all-flash storage when deploying infrastructure.

The PowerStore integration plans build on the commercial launch earlier this year of PowerFlex availability within the Nutanix Cloud Platform. That integration tied external storage support for Nutanix’s Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and Dell’s PowerFlex storage platform and is being targeted at enterprises that want to independently manage and scale compute and storage resources in their hybrid cloud environments.

UPDATE: This story has been updated to correct a scaling figure provided by Dell Technologies.