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Dell PowerStore

64Judge labels
19First choices
7Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
16% in Enterprise storage for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 167 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
7 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 24 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Dell PowerStore →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In enterprise storage · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Dell PowerStore for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Enterprise storage systemsCloud and infrastructure16%1 of 1678%24accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Dell PowerStore yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Dell PowerStore across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini11002
Gemini 3.5 Flash02103
Perplexity Sonar11002
Grok 4.1 Fast21104
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash11013
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash11002
Kimi K210012
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.501102
GPT-6 Luna21003
Muse Glimmer 30B10001

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct20 labels14
Paraphrase15 labels3
Comparative9 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labels1
Scale-constrained4 labels1
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative64 labels in all, every segment counted; 19 of the 21 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“A versatile all-flash system for mixed block and file workloads... A common choice when an organization wants one system for varied workloads.” GPT-6 Luna · Enterprise storage · comparative prompt · first choice
“the Dell PowerStore 500T / 3500 is the most frequently referenced best-value enterprise all-flash midrange” Muse Glimmer 30B · Enterprise storage · budget prompt · first choice
“The Best All-Rounder: Dell PowerStore ... is the safest and most versatile choice.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Enterprise storage · direct prompt · first choice
“For most mid-market B2B companies, the strongest choice is Dell PowerStore” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Enterprise storage · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“However, GigaOm has recently demoted Dell to the "Challenger" ring in the midsize market.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Enterprise storage · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Caveat: Higher operational complexity, less mature cloud integration” Kimi K2 · Enterprise storage · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Dell PowerStore, over the 64 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dell PowerStore was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
HPE Alletra15 of 640Not among the top eight
IBM FlashSystem9 of 641Not among the top eight
Synology NAS8 of 641Not among the top eight
Infinidat InfiniBox7 of 641Not among the top eight
HPE Alletra Storage MP B100007 of 640Not among the top eight
Pure Storage FlashArray//C5 of 641Not among the top eight
Dell PowerMax5 of 640Not among the top eight
Everpure FlashArray5 of 640Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Dell PowerStore. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 58 of the 64 answers that named Dell PowerStore and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

Where Dell PowerStore stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “enterprise storage array”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “enterprise storage systems”
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not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
880 a month (“dell powerstore”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
126 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 13,697,880 a month
Searches its site ranks for
395,731 · 66,192 in the top three
Sites linking to it
134,964
Paid Google search
48 searches its ads show for, about 894 clicks and $10,867 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
63+ ads · 62 text, 1 image · 63 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as DELL USA L.P., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 62 in the year, 1 before. 57 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
16%
rank 1 of 167 in enterprise storage
First choices
19
across its categories
Named in
64 answers
Its own site cited
in 58 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on dell.com
164
subdomains included
Content
154
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Case study77762026-09-25
Glossary or explainer47472026-09-28
Blog22202026-09-28
News or press3undated
Conference or event212026-09-24
Report or ebook212026-09-21
Webinar or virtual event112026-09-16
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page dell.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Dell PowerStore

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Dell PowerStore; a claim can dispute any of them.
Dell PowerStore (entry-level, e.g., 500T) 1Dell PowerStore (with Dell APEX) 1Dell PowerStore / PowerFlex 1Dell PowerStore/Unity 1

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  • where Dell PowerStore is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Dell PowerStore, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Dell PowerStore is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
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AI models recommend Dell PowerStore first in Enterprise storage systems this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
AI models' first choice in Enterprise storage systems, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/cloud/enterprise-storage-systems/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/dell-powerstore--enterprise-storage-systems-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Enterprise storage systems, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Enterprise storage systems standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
AI models' first choice in Enterprise storage systems, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/cloud/enterprise-storage-systems/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/dell-powerstore--enterprise-storage-systems-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Enterprise storage systems, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Enterprise storage systems standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
AI models' first choice in Enterprise storage systems, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/cloud/enterprise-storage-systems/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/dell-powerstore--enterprise-storage-systems-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Enterprise storage systems, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Enterprise storage systems standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.