Welcome to the Next Generation of Dell ObjectScale
The AI era presents unprecedented, growing and extreme demands on enterprise IT infrastructures—from servers to storage, from the core to the edge to the cloud. We’ve heard loud and clear from customers—they’re looking for ever-more performance, density and resilience to drive their success across the AI lifecycle.
At Dell Technologies, we’re proud that organizations worldwide rely on our enterprise-grade native object storage to securely and efficiently manage massive amounts of data over a globally accessible namespace. Today, we take our commitment to innovation further by introducing the next generation of Dell ObjectScale.
Advance with ObjectScale 4.0
We’re thrilled to announce immediate availability of ObjectScale version 4.0, an AI-ready operating environment packed with powerful features. ObjectScale 4.0 brings a new level of performance and stability for data processing and applications. Breakthrough efficiency includes new smart rebalancing as well as advanced space reclamation and capacity utilization.
ObjectScale 4.0 also optimizes the support experience, giving customers new features such as expanded system health metrics and alerting, and further advances its industry-leading resilience with a range of latest security enhancements. ObjectScale is the world’s most cyber-secure object storage2 and offers up to 76% lower TCO than public cloud3. Customers can rest easy knowing their data storage strategy is simple, secure and cost-effective.
“Dell ObjectScale enables us to quickly recover petabytes of critical and irreplaceable research data in case of a natural disaster or cyber-attack.” – Craig Risien, CI Systems Project Manager, Ocean Observatories Initiative, Oregon State University
ObjectScale 4.0 is also available via appliance options, including HDD-based and all-flash configurations.
Power Up Hybrid Cloud: Wasabi with Dell ObjectScale
Dell is excited to expand its collaboration with Wasabi Technologies, a leading provider of cloud object storage. Wasabi has joined Dell Extended Technology Complete (ETC), working with Dell to bring to market innovative, integrated and cost-effective hybrid cloud solutions using Dell ObjectScale and Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, offering the solutions to Dell buyers and sellers from a single, trusted source.
Together, we’re introducing Wasabi with Dell ObjectScale. It’s hybrid cloud object storage as-a-service from Wasabi, powered by ObjectScale, with service tiers starting with as little as 25TB of reserved capacity per month.
“The collaboration between Dell and Wasabi represents a powerful
combination of Dell’s industry-leading infrastructure solutions with Wasabi’s simple, predictable and affordable cloud storage. Together, we empower businesses with scalable, high-performance hybrid cloud solutions.” – Marty Falaro, EVP & COO, Wasabi Technologies
The solution amplifies and leverages Wasabi’s global infrastructure, supporting more than 100,000 customers in 15 cloud storage regions worldwide. Organizations can seamlessly integrate Dell unstructured storage systems, such as ObjectScale and PowerScale, with the ObjectScale-based environment in Wasabi. This flexibility allows users to move data efficiently using familiar tools like CloudPools, Superna, and CloudSoda, supporting long-term archival, space optimization and retention use cases.
We’re pleased to announce that the hybrid cloud object storage solution is available in the United States, in the United Kingdom beginning April 2025, with expansion into other regions planned in the coming months.
Drive AI Innovation with New ObjectScale XF960 and X560
ObjectScale, alongside PowerScale, forms the foundation of the Dell Data Lakehouse and Dell AI Data Platform. These platforms integrate robust data management capabilities to address the demands of AI and analytics workloads, ensuring streamlined processing and insight discovery.
Dell is excited to preview ObjectScale XF960—the next leap in object storage performance for enterprises looking to super-charge their AI insights and innovations. This all-flash appliance represents the evolution of the EXF900 and incorporates extensive hardware advances based on Dell PowerEdge.
Designed specifically for AI workloads, XF960 delivers up to 50% greater throughput per node compared to competing solutions1. Its industry-leading density, boasting up to 8x improvement over its predecessor4, ensures that organizations driving AI innovations at scale will benefit from extremely fast, efficient and reliable access to their object data.
We’re also pleased to announce immediate availability of Dell ObjectScale X560—an optimal platform choice for enterprises focused on streamlining their AI data lake operations backed by top HDD performance. ObjectScale X560 introduces up to 83% faster read throughput to accelerate key data lake workloads including media ingest, backups and AI model training.5
Looking Ahead
That’s only the start of our ObjectScale.Next innovation. More exciting updates are planned for Dell Technologies World! Stay tuned and be sure to meet with us there.
For more details on the capabilities of ObjectScale.Next, and to explore Wasabi with Dell ObjectScale, visit the ObjectScale product page.
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Dell ObjectScale 4.0 is available now as a software update for current Dell ECS environments.
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HDD-based ObjectScale X560 appliance running 4.0 will be available April 9, 2025.
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All-Flash ObjectScale XF960 appliance is planned for release/availability beginning in Q3 CY2025.
1 Based on Dell internal analysis of publicly available data as of Mar. 2025. Dell performance is based on large object read throughput per node and cluster configurations configured with ObjectScale XF960 and Ethernet networking. Actual results may vary.
2 Based on Dell analysis comparing cyber-security software capabilities offered for Dell ObjectScale vs. competitive products, Mar. 2025.
3 ESG Economic Validation sponsored by Dell Technologies, “Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Dell ECS: Economic Benefit Analysis of On-premises Object Storage versus Public Cloud,” Tony Palmer, July 2022. Cost savings based on ESG comparison of ECS to a leading public cloud in active storage scenarios. Actual results will vary.
4 Based on Dell analysis comparing highest planned drive capacity options on ObjectScale XF960 compared to available drive capacity options on ECS EXF900, Mar. 2025.
5 Based on Dell analysis comparing ObjectScale X560 with 4.0 to ECS EX500 with 3.8 for small-object reads, Mar. 2025. Actual results may vary.
