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Publication Date: 2025-09-26 07:00:00
‘It was about 10 microseconds after we announced the PowerFlex integration with Nutanix that customers started asking about PowerStore,’ Drew Schulke, vice president of Dell’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, tells CRN.
Dell PowerStore will soon support the Nutanix Cloud Platform, a partnership that is designed to capture pent-up demand for hypervisor options in large storage deployments as customers look for ways to lower the cost of their virtualization environments.
Drew Schulke, vice president of Dell’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, told CRN this collaboration came about after the success of PowerFlex with Nutanix, which was unveiled last year.
“It was about 10 microseconds after we announced the PowerFlex integration with Nutanix that customers started asking about PowerStore,” he said during an interview this week. “And we did prioritize ‘Flex’ first, for a reason. We collectively had some very large customers that were pushing both of us to support this integration. They had tremendous investments that they were trying to rationalize and be strategic about, and so that’s why we led with ‘Flex’ first, but we always knew ‘Store’ was going to be a close second.”
PowerStore is Dell’s flagship enterprise storage product that features a dual controller architecture and fits in with traditional…
