Stefan Mileschin

Unstructured data storage

Dell EMC introduced PowerScale, a new family of unstructured data storage products engineered to help organisations store, manage and capitalise on the massive growth of unstructured data – video, audio, images, documents, health records, and metadata.

This is the next evolution of OneFS, an operating system under the bonnet of Dell EMC Isilon. The newly introduced PowerScale family include new NVMe and all-flash PowerScale nodes running on PowerEdge servers, as well as existing Isilon all-flash, hybrid and archive nodes running the PowerScale OneFS operating system. PowerScale is is fully compatible with existing Isilon nodes.

Dell tells us that that PowerScale’s single namespace, file system environment and enterprise-class data services make it easy-to-use and massively scalable.

Apparently PowerScale clusters can reach multi-petabyte scale and millions of file operations without disruption or costly downtime for customers. Nodes can be added to either PowerScale or an existing Isilon cluster in just 60 seconds.

https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardwar...new-powerscale