Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
May 3, 2022
This solution assists with eliminating storage silos because it provides SMB and NFS protocols. Powerscale has also helped free up our employee's time to focus on other business priorities.
High-Performance Computing Services Manager at The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Real User
Jan 26, 2022
The most valuable feature we started using, beyond the initial scope for the solution, is the multi-protocol system that allows you to access the same set of files using different network protocols like NFS or SMB. PowerScale’s Unified Permission Model ensures that data security and access permissions are honoured regardless of whether the client is a Windows desktop or a Linux server
CIO at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Real User
Nov 30, 2021
Since it can scale so easily, as long as I have money to buy more nodes, I can grow it as big as I need to. That is important in our business. As sequencing technologies continue to evolve, and as those technologies evolve, the amount of data generation never gets smaller. It just always seems to get bigger. This is one of the absolute key aspects: We can grow on demand without having to forklift stuff.
Network Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Dec 30, 2020
There are also the policies that you set up on replication and purging files, and policies for something called WORM. That's a "write once, read many," where you can't overwrite certain files or certain data. It puts them in a "protected mode" where it becomes very difficult for someone to accidentally delete. We use that for certain files or certain directories, because we're dealing with video and some video has to be protected for chain-of-custody purposes. The WORM feature works great.
This is the best platform that we could have for storage utilization. It is affordable and scalable. At the end of the day, it's something that we find very easy to use.
Senior Vice President, Product Development & Strategy at EarthCam, Inc.
Real User
Nov 1, 2020
For maximizing storage utilization, PowerScale is great. When you write the data to it, it spreads it out to all the nodes, so you get all the performance from the entire pool.
Information Systems Manager at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Oct 29, 2020
It has allowed us to have more consistent quality controls. It has also allowed us to expand the number of servers in clients processing and accessing data, allowing us to get a lot bigger projects out the door.
The solution has simplified management by consolidating our workloads. Rather than managing all the different workloads on different storage arrays, Windows Servers, etc., we just have one place per data centre where we manage all their unstructured data, saving us time.
The single pane of glass for both IT and for the end-user is a valuable feature. On the IT side, I can actually control where things are stored, whether something is stored on solid-state drives or spinning drives... The single pane of glass makes it very easy to use and very easy to understand. We started at 100 terabytes and we moved to 250 and it still feels like the exact same system and we're able to move data as needed.
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The solution provides massive performance, scalability, efficiency, and ease of management.
The best thing is that it works. We don't have to maintain it too much; we usually upgrade once a year.
The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance.
The guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice.
Dell PowerScale is a scalable solution. It allows non-disruptive upgrades and maintenance of the system.
The solution's scalability is very good.
The solution is stable.
The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features.
The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is all the capabilities together.
Ability to scale the number of nodes without having to build additional clusters.
The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) integration with other solutions because of the standard file system protocol.
This solution assists with eliminating storage silos because it provides SMB and NFS protocols. Powerscale has also helped free up our employee's time to focus on other business priorities.
The most valuable feature we started using, beyond the initial scope for the solution, is the multi-protocol system that allows you to access the same set of files using different network protocols like NFS or SMB. PowerScale’s Unified Permission Model ensures that data security and access permissions are honoured regardless of whether the client is a Windows desktop or a Linux server
Our users are able to easily roll back snapshots without going through IT.
Since it can scale so easily, as long as I have money to buy more nodes, I can grow it as big as I need to. That is important in our business. As sequencing technologies continue to evolve, and as those technologies evolve, the amount of data generation never gets smaller. It just always seems to get bigger. This is one of the absolute key aspects: We can grow on demand without having to forklift stuff.
There are also the policies that you set up on replication and purging files, and policies for something called WORM. That's a "write once, read many," where you can't overwrite certain files or certain data. It puts them in a "protected mode" where it becomes very difficult for someone to accidentally delete. We use that for certain files or certain directories, because we're dealing with video and some video has to be protected for chain-of-custody purposes. The WORM feature works great.
This is the best platform that we could have for storage utilization. It is affordable and scalable. At the end of the day, it's something that we find very easy to use.
For maximizing storage utilization, PowerScale is great. When you write the data to it, it spreads it out to all the nodes, so you get all the performance from the entire pool.
It has allowed us to have more consistent quality controls. It has also allowed us to expand the number of servers in clients processing and accessing data, allowing us to get a lot bigger projects out the door.
The solution has simplified management by consolidating our workloads. Rather than managing all the different workloads on different storage arrays, Windows Servers, etc., we just have one place per data centre where we manage all their unstructured data, saving us time.
The single pane of glass for both IT and for the end-user is a valuable feature. On the IT side, I can actually control where things are stored, whether something is stored on solid-state drives or spinning drives... The single pane of glass makes it very easy to use and very easy to understand. We started at 100 terabytes and we moved to 250 and it still feels like the exact same system and we're able to move data as needed.
The stability of the solution is good.
The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature.