User Reviews of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) & IBM FlashSystem

Updated March 2024

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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) review

Eric Burgueño
Eric Burgueño
High-Performance Computing Services Manager at The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Simplified data management, tremendously reducing our users’ cognitive overhead
The only thing that I think PowerScale could do better is improving the HTTP data access protocol. At the present, you cannot protect access to data via HTTP or HTTPS the same way that you can secure data access through other protocols like NFS or SMB. You can either access a file because it can be access by anyone in the organization, or...
IBM FlashSystem review

Atif Najam
Atif Najam
Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd
A good solution for managing and supporting our workloads
IBM FlashSystems is lagging in optimizing storage technologies, which can be improved. For example, deduplication with Dell EMC and their storages are far ahead of the curve regarding data storage deduplication. Deduplication is when you remove all the data duplicates from your system and save more data in a smaller physical space. If there...

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