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Last year at Dell Technologies World (DTW 2022), Dell announced their Multicloud by Design strategy, detailing their vision of simplifying the deployment and management of customers' multicloud environments with a consistent operational experience, so that customers can innovate without barriers. In 2022, the primary focus of the Multicloud by Design strategy was on Project Alpine - in 2023, Dell Technologies have doubled down on their Multicloud by Design strategy with a glutton of multicloud announcements and expanded the strategy further to consist of three primary elements:                1. Ground to Cloud                2. Cloud to Ground               3. SaaS Portal Figure 1. Delivering an APEX Multicloud Experience Now delving into each of these categories... 1.      Ground to Cloud - Multicloud Storage (+ Data Protection) This layer of the Multicloud by Design strategy takes Dell's industry leading storage and data protection software, where we have traditionally

The VxRail Video Update (VVU) is back! Well sort of. Join myself, Curtis Edwards and Benedikt Mayer as we discuss the latest updates to VxRail. Check us out and spread the word.  #Iwork4dell #VxRail Opinions expressed in this article are entirely my own and may not be representative of the views of Dell Technologies.

With Dell’s VxRail 7.0.450 release today   ( 4th May 2023 ) , a ream of new features and enhancements are being introduced that will bring a better overall lifecycle management experience to VxRail customers. I've listed the primary features of this release below, but for the purpose of this post I am going to home in on the LCM enhancements, in particular those that are going to help customers with upgrade planning and the upgrades themselves.  What's new in VxRail appliance software 7.0.450: Dynamic AppsON with VxRail and Dell PowerStore Run PowerStore LCM from VxRail Manager Reporting of Dell PowerStore code version External Storage VxRail dynamic nodes support the PowerMax 2500 and 8500 storage arrays LCM enhancements Enhanced the frequency of LCM precheck updates in VxRail Improved and streamlined upgrade planning and precheck remediation Added support for smart bundle download Enhanced compliance reports with more information included Tighter integration of GP