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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) review
Ryan Parker-Hill
System Team Leader at Deakin University
As you add more nodes in a cluster, you get more effective utilisation
Their SmartQuotas feature is probably the thing that we use most heavily and consistently. Because it is a scaled-out NAS product, you end up with clusters of multiple petabytes. This allows you to have quotas for people and present smaller chunks of storage to different users and applications, managing oversubscription very easily. We use...
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) review
Mikael Hellström
IT Manager at Regional Health Services
Snapshot feature enhances data protection and malware monitoring
If you know how to handle it, Dell PowerScale is a good product. However, Pure Storage offers similar or even better performance at a lower cost, so I rather recommend Pure Storage if you are looking for efficiency and cost benefits. Overall, I rate PowerScale an eight out of ten.
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