Managing diverse file workloads is crucial for IT operations. PowerScale OneFS, Dell’s advanced solution for unstructured data management, addresses this challenge head-on across edge, core, and cloud environments.
PowerScale OneFS offers a comprehensive approach to handling traditional and modern workloads, including AI and analytics.
We provide more colour on why you should choose it below.
- Scalability and simplicity
PowerScale’s architecture has non-disruptive scaling from 3 to 252 nodes, supporting up to 186PB of raw capacity, enabling IT teams to expand storage and compute resources efficiently, with new node integration taking as little as 60 seconds.
- Storage optimisation
Leveraging advanced in-line data compression and deduplication techniques, PowerScale achieves up to 80% storage efficiency to reduce physical storage requirements and streamline data management within a unified data lake structure.
- Protocol flexibility
OneFS supports simultaneous multi-protocol access, including NFS, SMB, HDFS, S3, NDMP, REST, HTTP, and FTP, eliminating data silos and facilitating seamless data access and collaboration across various platforms and applications.
- Enhanced security and compliance
PowerScale complies with industry standards such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and CCPA and holds federal certifications, including DISA APL and Common Criteria List. The platform is designed to be available for up to six nines, providing robust data protection and compliance.
- Deployment versatility
PowerScale offers flexible deployment options, ranging from on-premises appliances to Dell APEX private cloud, multi-cloud, and cloud-adjacent solutions. These allow IT teams to maintain consistent data management practices across various environments.
- Cloud integration
The Dell APEX File Storage for AWS brings PowerScale’s capabilities to the public cloud, offering high-performance, scale-out file storage in AWS environments to simplify cloud migration processes and ensure operational consistency between on-premises and cloud.
- Intelligent management
PowerScale gives you advanced analytics tools like CloudIQ and InsightIQ for proactive infrastructure health monitoring, performance optimisation, and capacity forecasting, allowing your IT professionals to make data-driven decisions.
- Extensive ecosystem integration
With over 250 validated application integrations, PowerScale seamlessly integrates with a wide array of business-critical applications and data analytics platforms, helping minimise integration challenges and enhancing overall IT operational efficiency.
- Proven industry track record
PowerScale has demonstrated its effectiveness across various healthcare, finance, and media sectors – for instance, over 2,000 healthcare providers and 1,900 financial institutions use it to manage their environments.
- Comprehensive data management
As part of Dell’s broader unstructured data solution portfolio, which includes ECS and ObjectScale, PowerScale offers a complete ecosystem for diverse data management needs. It provides an integrated approach with a comprehensive toolkit for addressing various data storage and management challenges.
To learn more about PowerScale OneFS and other Dell Technologies solutions to your data storage challenges do get in touch.
