Dell EMC’s PowerScale® is an almost 20-year-old shared-nothing, scale-out NAS that supports all-flash, HDD/flash hybrid, and all HDD nodes in heterogeneous clusters. PowerScale is—as one would expect from a 20-year-old product—feature-rich. It includes automated tiering between PowerScale pools and to the cloud.
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Dell EMC Isilon PowerScale Alternative & Comparison
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From big data analytics to artificial intelligence, the most exciting applications in many data centers today glean information from large pools of unstructured data and, therefore, require new scale-out file storage solutions.
Feature | Dell EMC PowerScale | VAST Data Platform |
|---|---|---|
Class | Scale-Out NAS | Scale-Out NAS/Object |
Architecture | Shared-nothing | DASE™ |
Low-Cost QLC support | ✕ | ✓ |
Global, Cross-Block Compression | ✕ | Inline, Always on |
All Flash Cost | $$$$ | $ |
Multi-Protocol File <> Object | ✕ | ✓ |