User Reviews of Dell PowerScale (Isilon)

Updated July 2025

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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) review

Bill Engelmeyer
Bill Engelmeyer
Systems Engineer at Unisity LLC
Flexibility and reliability have supported seamless data growth
I cannot think of anything to improve about Dell PowerScale (Isilon). The hardest challenge we have is due to how we've bought things over time. The way that we moved to the PowerEdge platform for the newer systems creates a scale problem as I still buy the older style systems, which are more dense storage. They're different chassis, so the...
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) review

Mazen Jamal Eddine
Mazen Jamal Eddine
Pre-Sale Engineer at Arab Operators
Implementation enables seamless archiving and data security
Any storage system has something called RAID, while Dell PowerScale (Isilon) uses the Reed-Solomon protocol. It's the same concept as RAID, however, it secures in case something happens on the node or the disks. In the Dell PowerScale (Isilon) system, this is calculated automatically. Instead of us assigning a RAID 5 or RAID 6, Dell...

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