• PowerScale Family

    PowerScale Family

    Intel Innovation Built-in

    • Modern, Flexible Scale-Out File Storage

      PowerScale, the world’s most flexible1 and secure scale-out NAS solution2, is designed to be reliable at any scale. Regardless of the kind of data, where it lives, or how big it gets, your data lake always stays simple to manage, simple to grow, simple to protect, and simple enough to handle the most demanding workloads of today and tomorrow. New QLC drives for PowerScale offer optimum economics for demanding NAS workloads with massive raw capacity of up to 186 PB in a 252-node cluster. 

    • How to use Dell’s Unstructured Data Storage Portfolio in a digitally transformed enterprise.

      Learn how modern applications are driving new storage requirements for digital-first enterprises.

      • Scale-out storage that is ready for any workload

      • As your business changes, your infrastructure needs to change with it. Be ready for what's coming next:

      • Support any workload

        • Choose from all-flash, hybrid and archive nodes for the best fit for your data
        • Run multiple data protocols with simultaneous access to avoid storage silos
        • Deploy as a NAS appliance, in APEX or in the Cloud

      • Scalable data management

        • Scale up, down or out non-disruptively to tens of petabytes
        • Manage your storage infrastructure with a single UI with CloudIQ
        • Manage your datasets across your enterprise

      • Protect your data

        • Built-in availability, redundancy, security, data protection and replication with OneFS
        • Protect from cyber attacks with integrated ransomware defense and smart AirGap
        • Designed for 6x9s availability

      • Protect Unstructured Data from Cyber Attacks

        More than 2000 customers trust Superna Ransomware Defender for PowerScale.

      • PowerScale Cyber Protection solution puts IT teams a step ahead of cyber attackers by detecting unusual data access patterns and suspicious behavior that are indicative of a ransomware attack. Customers can effectively isolate data from cyber attacks using airgap to ensure they have a copy of last resort to rapidly recover business critical data. IT teams can also failover to the air-gapped cyber vault for immediate safe access to business critical data, during and immediately after the attack.

    • FEATURED BLOG

      Gartner® Magic Quadrant Leader™ – Seven Years in a Row

      For the seventh consecutive year, Dell Technologies is a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.3

  • Experience PowerScale Flexibility in Action

    • PowerScale Hands-On Lab

      Sign up to experience PowerScale in a virtual lab setting.
       

    • PowerScale Interactive Demo

      Experience a guided walkthrough of PowerScale.

    • PowerScale Virtual Tour

      Take a 3D animated tour of our unique system.

    • Downloadable Simulator

      Download our simulator to find out how simple it is to use PowerScale.

    • Experience PowerScale

    • Making AI Real

      AI - Unleashed

      PowerScale is the foundation for building an integrated and optimized IT infrastructure for AI initiatives, from POC to production. The integration and optimization showcased includes PowerScale, PowerEdge, PowerSwitch and Dell Precision Data Science Workstations.

    • Expanding capabilities for Media & Entertainment

      Imagination - Unlimited

      Ideal for companies of any size from small VFX houses to multi-national broadcasters, PowerScale storage provides a foundation for storytelling offering secure collaboration, modular expansion, flexible consumption models and easy cloud integration, all with management tools spanning multiple platforms.

    • Accelerating Next-Gen Sequencing

      Sequencing - Unbounded

      Dell Unstructured Data Solutions portfolio is a key aspect of a next-generation sequencing environment by delivering performance, being easy to manage, and accelerating whole-genome sequencing. 

    • Customer Stories

    • CUSTOMER STORY: LIGHTSTORM ENTERTAINMENT

      Lightstorm Entertainment Accelerates Production

      With hits like "Avatar", Lightstorm Entertainment is pushing the threshold of cinematic innovation and generating vast amounts of data.

    • CUSTOMER STORY: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO

      Time to science accelerated with digital transformation

      UTSA modernizes its IT infrastructure for faster access to research, better cybersecurity and reduced operational run rate.

    • CUSTOMER STORY: MIAMI DOLPHINS

      Miami Dolphins top scores for game-day experience

      The Miami Dolphins increase fan engagement and stadium security with advanced video, data storage and protection, and hyper-converged infrastructure from Dell Technologies.

    • CUSTOMER STORY: ALMA OBSERVATORY

      Probing mysteries of the universe from Earth

      ALMA Observatory processes high-quality datasets of observations from space, accelerating science and human progress.

    • DELL APEX STORAGE FOR PUBLIC CLOUD

      Streamline your cloud journey

      Simplify your transition to the cloud with seamless data mobility and operational consistency by offering software-defined high-performance scale-out file storage in AWS.

    • Dell Technologies Services

    • Enterprise Support Services

      Drive better business execution, increase revenue opportunities and foster more productive teams with Enterprise Support Services.

    • Enterprise Deployment Services

      Integrate new technology into existing environments with confidence through extensive planning and validation by expert certified engineers.

    • Dell Financial Services

      Acquire technology on your terms with a variety of flexible payment solutions from Dell Financial Services.**

    • Related offerings

    • Dell DataIQ

      Dell DataIQ

      Discover, understand, and manage all of your data.

    • DELL CLOUDIQ

      DELL CLOUDIQ

      Get your storage health under control with easy monitoring from anywhere.

    • Dell ECS

      Dell ECS

      Capture, store, protect and manage object data and public cloud-like scale.



       

    • OBJECTSCALE

      Software-defined, Kubernetes-native object storage for VMware and Red Hat.

    • Validated Designs

      Speed digital transformation with Dell Validated Designs.

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    • 1Based on Dell analysis of publicly available information sources measured across 7 attributes, August 2021

      2Based on Dell analysis comparing cyber-security software capabilities offered for Dell PowerScale vs. competitive products, September 2022

      3 Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage” by Julia Palmer, Jerry Rozeman, Chandra Mukhyala, Jeff Vogel, October 19, 2022.