Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Pure Storage FlashBlade compete in the enterprise storage solutions category. Pure Storage FlashBlade holds a slight edge due to its high-speed data processing and user-friendly management.
Features: Dell PowerScale offers impressive scalability, easy manageability across different network protocols, and excellent data support features. Pure Storage FlashBlade excels in high-speed data processing, strong object storage functionality, and simplified management processes.
Room for Improvement: Dell PowerScale could enhance its cloud integration, load distribution abilities, and object storage management. Pure Storage FlashBlade needs better cloud integration, improved SMB support, and cost efficiency enhancements according to users.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell PowerScale is mostly on-premises, with deployments in private and hybrid clouds, praised for its extensive support despite some first-line support issues. Pure Storage FlashBlade is used on-premises and in private clouds, known for easy deployment and reliable tech support, providing seamless assistance.
Pricing and ROI: Dell PowerScale is costly but offers flexibility in scaling with a justified total cost of ownership due to its long-term value. Pure Storage FlashBlade is high-priced, yet its superior performance and management justify the investment. Both reflect robust features and scalability for their pricing.
Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) storage solutions are designed to help manage data for enterprises of all types. Dell PowerScale systems are simple to install, manage, and scale to virtually any size and include a choice of all-flash, hybrid, or archive nodes. Dell PowerScale solutions stay flexible and reliable no matter how much storage capacity is added, how much performance is required, or how business needs change in the future.
With Dell PowerScale, your data lake always stays simple to manage, simple to grow, simple to protect, and simple enough to handle the most demanding current and future workloads.
Ideal for companies of any size, from small enterprises to multi-national ones, Dell PowerScale storage provides secure collaboration, modular scalability, flexible consumption models, and easy cloud integrations, all with management tools spanning multiple platforms.
Key Benefits of Dell EMC PowerScale Storage
Reviews from Real Users
Dell EMC PowerScale storage stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its scalability capabilities and its user-friendly centralized management system.
Rachel B., a chief operations officer & acting CFO at Like a Photon, writes, "PowerScale allows us to manage storage without managing RAID groups or migrating volumes between controllers. It has really simplified things. We're not having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. That takes care of itself. We just worry about the data. It's really easy for deploying and managing storage at the petabyte scale."
Keith B., the director of IT at NatureFresh Farms, writes, "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."
FlashBlade is the industry’s most advanced scale-out storage for unstructured data, powered by a modern, massively parallel architecture to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) and accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries and insights.
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