PowerScale delivers trusted performance and cutting-edge innovation to move AI from pilot to production – fast. Built to handle what's next and proven in what's now, it feeds your models, powers models, automates pipelines, and integrates seamlessly across the Dell AI Data Factory and AI stacks to deliver transformative results – without compromise.
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PowerScale is more than storage - it’s the engine of Dell’s AI Factory. As part of the Dell AI Data Platform, it delivers unmatched scale, deep integration, and trusted expertise to build, train, and deploy AI faster. No other vendor offers full-stack AI infrastructure with storage built for what’s next.
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PowerScale and NVIDIA team up to deliver GPU-ready storage that powers the Dell AI Data Platform, accelerates training, removes bottlenecks, and enables cutting-edge use cases like RAG.
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Accelerating the AI Journey
"Dell PowerScale enables us to unlock the full potential of AI by providing the scalability, performance, and reliability needed for our teams to innovate efficiently and optimize the total cost of ownership." - Takashi Kanai, Deputy Chief of SUBARU Lab, Subaru Corporation
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Faster, smarter, stronger with the resilience enterprises trust to scale.
No one powers enterprise AI like PowerScale - trusted by 16,000+ global customers – with 1,500+ running GPU workloads – and backed by Dell's full-stack AI platform.
Unlock GPU Potential for Large-Scale Training
Support uninterrupted model training and prevent GPU idling with high speed, efficient data access. PowerScale’s parallel processing across servers accelerates time to outcomes and results.
Power AI Anywhere on Data Everywhere
Facilitate simplified data mobility and access with a consistent on-prem experience across your data estate – from edge, to core, to cloud.
Guard Against Data Poisoning and AI Model Inversion
Protect AI workflows with the PowerScale Cybersecurity Suite, federal-grade security, zero-trust architecture, and API-integrated ransomware detection to help safeguard data integrity and build resilience against evolving threats.
Maximize return on AI investment
Sustainably manage your IT infrastructure with efficient hardware and guaranteed data reduction to lower power consumption and floor space.
Discover PowerScale: Unleash AI Innovation at Scale
Eliminate data silos
AI Data Platform
Support universal access with multiprotocol support – including S3 capabilities - to keep data accessible for all users across a global cluster namespace to minimize time consumed and resources utilized for copy data workflows.
Train AI models at scale
AI-optimized data access
PowerScale’s continuous optimization features non-disruptive upgrades and the latest in technology such as GPUDirect and NFSoRDMA to enable faster outcomes, perfectly suited for next-generation workloads such as HPC and AI.
Fuel the AI Factory
End-to-end solution
Power your AI workloads with an integrated portfolio of infrastructure and professional services – validated and tested with an extensive partner network and ISV ecosystem – to achieve breakthrough business solutions
Simplify management
Ease of operation
Manage large amounts of data with PowerScale’s software suite that makes it simple to scale, simple to secure, and simple to automate - to maximize the value of your data in the most efficient and effective way possible.
Unlock data insights
Faster metadata export
Search billions of files and exabytes of data to gain a global view of all metadata across geo-distributed clusters using our new MetadataIQ feature.
Optimize shared resources
Multi-tenancy capabilities
Control storage usage by assigning quotas at the cluster, directory, subdirectory, user, and group levels, thus enabling you to easily administer storage from a single interface. Simplify operations by enabling multiple groups in your organization to run AI workloads against a single dataset.
See how PowerScale delivers smarter management
Experience PowerScale management software through guided demos.
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“Dell PowerScale enables us to unlock the full potential of AI by providing the scalability, performance and reliability needed for our teams to innovate efficiently.” Mr. Takashi Kanai, Deputy Chief
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“As the backbone of our data storage and dissemination, it enables us to move information quickly and efficiently, even when dealing with large volumes of data.” – Yan Chen, Studio Architect
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“Leveraging Dell, we have reduced our tumor sequencing timeline from days to hours, transforming our ability to offer timely treatment to children.” – Michael Hain, IT Business Manager
Oregon State University
Revolutionizing oceanic research with AI
“With Dell PowerScale, we can increase our performance and the return on our research investment with greater impact overall.” - Christopher M. Sullivan, Director of Research and Academic Computing
Cosm
Transforming entertainment with immersive shared reality
“The flexibility of PowerScale allows us to tackle higher resolutions and bit rates, which means we can… deliver the best possible immersive experiences.” – Devin Poolman, Chief Product and Technology Officer
MIAMI DOLPHINS
Revolutionizing stadium tech for fan engagement and sustainability
“Our Dell systems have led to better performance, higher productivity, cost savings and more efficient data management.” – Sameer Istafa, VP & CTO Revolutionizing
Subaru Corporation
Transforming driver safety with AI innovation
“Dell PowerScale enables us to unlock the full potential of AI by providing the scalability, performance and reliability needed for our teams to innovate efficiently.” Mr. Takashi Kanai, Deputy Chief
Kennedy Miller Mitchell
Redefining film production with AI-powered creativity
“As the backbone of our data storage and dissemination, it enables us to move information quickly and efficiently, even when dealing with large volumes of data.” – Yan Chen, Studio Architect
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FAQs
Dell PowerScale is engineered to solve the challenges of massive unstructured data growth, especially for modern workloads like AI, analytics, and digital media. It provides a simple, scalable, and efficient platform to manage petabytes of file and object data within a single namespace.
Choosing the right all-flash node depends on your specific performance and density requirements. F210 is an ideal entry point for all-flash performance and efficiency, F710 is ideal for high-performance AI and GPU-intensive workloads, and F910 provides the highest performance and density for the most demanding enterprise applications and large-scale data analytics.
PowerScale is designed to accelerate AI and machine learning pipelines by delivering the massive throughput and low-latency parallel file access that these workloads require. Its scale-out architecture ensures that performance grows as your datasets expand.
Yes, PowerScale can automatically tier inactive or "cold" data to a variety of public and private cloud targets. This is managed through the CloudPools policy engine, which allows you to define rules based on file age, access time, or other attributes.
Cluster resilience is a core strength of the OneFS operating system. PowerScale uses software-defined erasure coding to protect data by distributing it along with parity information across multiple nodes and drives. If a drive or even an entire node fails, the data remains fully accessible. The system automatically rebuilds the protected data onto available space in the cluster, with rebuild times optimized on high-performance NVMe SSDs to quickly restore full redundancy without impacting operations.
PowerScale provides a multi-layered security framework to protect data in regulated industries. Key features include Data-at-Rest Encryption (D@RE), Snapshot Immutability (WORM), Compliance and Hardening, and Cybersecurity Suite.
Dell PowerScale represents our flagship scale-out file and object storage solution. It is designed to help organizations manage, protect, and unlock value from their unstructured data, no matter where it resides.
Dell PowerStore and Dell PowerScale are both powerful storage solutions, but they are engineered for different data types and workloads. PowerStore is your go-to for application-centric, structured data, while PowerScale provides the performance and massive capacity needed to manage the growth of unstructured data.
Yes, in the sense that Dell PowerScale is the direct successor to the Isilon product line and is fully backward-compatible. While new hardware is sold under the PowerScale brand, Dell remains committed to supporting existing Isilon customers. A key benefit of the OneFS operating system is the ability to add new PowerScale nodes to an existing Isilon cluster non-disruptively. This provides a seamless path to modernize your infrastructure, protect your investment, and gain the latest performance and efficiency benefits without a forklift upgrade.
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