SOLUTION BRIEF

Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure
The world’s most scalable cloud block storage1
Challenges with mission-critical applications in the public cloud

SIMPLICITY•

Automated deployment: Deploy andconfigure block storage on MicrosoftAzure with simplicity and ease•

Streamlined management: Utilize
consistent and familiar tools tomanage storage across multicloudenvironments•

Efficient consolidation: Unify
disparate cloud resources andworkloads through a consistentmulticloud storage experience

AGILITY•

Extreme versatility: Optimize
a variety of workloads such as
databases, analytics, Dev/Test,
virtualization and containers•

Seamless data mobility: Movedata efficiently between multicloudenvironments to take advantage of avariety of Microsoft Azure services•

Linear scalability: Accommodate
demanding and unpredictableworkloads with high performance andlow latency

CONTROL•

Advanced data services: Meet SLAs
with enterprise-class features suchas thin provisioning, snapshots andbackup/restore•

Unparalleled resiliency: Efficiently
place data across multiple availability
zones without unnecessary replication
or data copies•

Continuous security: Accelerate
zero trust adoption with role-based
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Organizations that select public cloud deployments as part of their multicloud strategy
seek to increase their agility, accelerate application deployment time and improve overall
time-to-value. However, certain mission critical workloads have not been consideredviable candidates for running in the public cloud due to performance, scale andresiliency limitations. Add to that inconsistent throughput, capacity charges associatedwith meeting application requirements, and migrating workloads – and extending into thepublic cloud becomes even more challenging. Additionally, it is often difficult to monitor
performance and capacity utilization across public cloud-based storage resources.
Enterprise-class block storage for Microsoft Azure
Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure enables you to run diverse workloads inthe public cloud without these limitations and risks. Flexible deployment options andenterprise-grade resiliency offers a simplified public cloud experience powered byinnovative storage solutions from Dell Technologies that the industry has come to knowand trust.

Designed for 99.9999% availability2With Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure, you get the best of both worlds withDell’s enterprise-class storage performance, scalability and resiliency combined with theeconomics, compute and agility provided by the public cloud.
Extreme performance and scalability
The scale-out software architecture for Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure
enables exceptionally high performance by aggregating storage across multiple
instances in a cluster. This allows you to independently scale compute up to 2048
instances or storage up to 512 instances within a single cluster.
In fact, Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure surpasses the limits of native
cloud-based storage volumes while delivering extremely large IOPs with low latency
allowing you to run a wide range of block-based workloads – even mission critical use
cases that require high performance.
Simplified deployment, management and mobility
Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure can be deployed on managed disks formost workloads or on instances with naitive attached NVMe SSDs for performanceoptimized use cases. Configuration, deployment and management is performed using
built-in automation and intelligence that optimizes the instance types needed to support
the capacity and performance requirements of workloads.

Data mobility is efficient and seamless between on-premises and Microsoft Azure environments, as well as between different regionsin the public cloud. By leveraging asynchronous replication and snapshots for data protection and mobility, this offer provides fast andefficient data transfer, along with backup copies for disaster recovery, without lock-in.

Up to 82% cost savings compared to native public cloud storage3
Multi-AZ and enterprise data services
Dell APEX Data Block Storage for Microsoft Azure has the unique ability to spread data across multiple available zones, ensuring data
access without requiring extra copies of data or replication across AZs. By using the native fault sets feature, data is distributed acrossthree or more availability zones to offer additional protection against AZ failure.
Enterprise-class features such as thin provisioning, snapshots, replication, volume migration and backup/restore are also available
with Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure. With its extreme performance and scalability – and proven enterprise data services– this solution is well suited to support the most challenging workloads including large databases, analytics, Dev/Test, virtualizationand containers.
Enterprise-level support with Dell ProSupport Infrastructure Suite
Dell ProSupport Infrastructure Suite delivers enterprise-level support for managing storage solutions from the datacenter, to the edge,
to the cloud. ProSupport provides comprehensive 24x7 proactive support and ProSupport Plus delivers mission critical support withpriority access to remote senior support engineers and an assigned Service Account Manager. Maximize workload availability andincrease IT staff productivity with ProSupport Infrastructure Suite.
Summary
With Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure, you can modernize and streamline your block storage experience in the publiccloud, quickly adapt to unexpected changes in workload requirements and maintain peace of mind with reliable enterprise-class dataservices. With all the proven capabilities of enterprise on-premises block storage now available in the public cloud, you can run any
block-based workload in the cloud with confidence.

Dell APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azureis the industry’s most resilient and flexible
cloud storage offering1

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Based on Dell analysis of storage software deployable on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, May 2023. CLM-007736 and CLM-007738.
Performance claims based on internal Dell testing, October 2023.
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Based on a Silverton Consulting white paper, sponsored by Dell Technologies, “Conceptual TCO: Dell APEX Block Storage for Public Cloud,” October 2023. Systems were configured to support IOPS
performance of 10,700 KIOPS and throughput of 239,000 MBPS. The Dell solution assumes 4:1 thin provisioning vs thick provisioning for Microsoft Azure. Actual costs will vary depending on the thinprovisioning factor used, region, data change/snapshot rates, capacity, type of storage and instances used, and other factors.
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