How Flexibility is Redefining NAS for the Data Era

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A new IDC research report, Meeting the New Unstructured Storage Requirements for Digitally Transforming Enterprises, surveyed over 400 enterprise IT decision makers and identified the top drivers and challenges for managing unstructured data. IDC found, based on feedback from respondents, an “uber” trend in file-based storage is the need for flexibility – the ability to easily support a mix of enterprise file-based workloads and be ready for any workload including demanding and modern workloads such as AI/ML/DL or traditional use cases like file consolidation and archives. Key requirements of flexibility noted in the report include mixed media support, nondisruptive scalability, ease of public cloud integration, multiple access methods and an availability of different deployment models.

To address the continued demand for flexibility, today Dell Technologies announced new innovations for Dell EMC PowerScale, the world’s most flexible scale-out NAS solution.¹ These new enhancements provide more flexible consumption, management, protection and security capabilities to eliminate data silos and help you effectively use unstructured data to innovate with confidence.

Enhancements to the PowerScale portfolio that enable organizations to support any data workload, manage it easily and keep it cyber resilient, include:

- New PowerScale hybrid (H700 and H7000) and archive nodes (A300 and A3000) deliver up to 75% more performance than comparable hybrid nodes² and up to 2x more performance than comparable archive nodes.³
- New PowerScale OneFS and DataIQ software enhancements expand storage management, performance monitoring, auditing and compliance capabilities to simplify file storage at scale.
- Enhancements to our API-integrated ransomware protection capabilities keep data protected from cyberattacks and now offer cloud deployment options in addition to on-premises.
- Dynamic NAS Protection, available with PowerProtect Data Manager, delivers a simple, modern way to protect NAS systems through enhanced backup for file data enabling up to 3X faster backups4 and up to 2x faster restores.5

Built to cover all workload needs

With the new PowerScale hybrid (H700 and H7000) and archive nodes (A300 and A3000), we have completed the refresh of the Isilon product line that started last year with the release of the PowerScale all-flash F200 and F600 nodes and continued with the announcement of the PowerScale F900 all-flash nodes. These new, more powerful hybrid and archive nodes offer more cores, memory and cache, additional networking options, and deliver complete node compatibility with your existing PowerScale and Isilon clusters. For example, the A300 and A3000 archive nodes support active and deep archive workloads with faster CPU than the previous generation. Inline data reduction, now available across the entire PowerScale portfolio, provides additional opportunities to deliver up to 2.2x increase in storage efficiency.

“Dell EMC PowerScale provides multiple nodes for transferring unstructured data at superhighway speeds across our HPC environment and scaling quickly to support our exponential data growth,” said Nassos Galiopoulos, Chief Technology Officer, Deputy CIO at the University of Texas, San Antonio. “We now handle billions of records, along with big data analytics, AI, and machine learning, with tremendous velocity, variety, and volume.”

In addition to our node refresh, enhancements to OneFS (available later this quarter), the operating system software that serves as the foundation of PowerScale, deliver writable snapshots, faster upgrades, secure boot, HDFS ACL support, and improved data reduction and small file efficiency. The latest release of DataIQ, our data management software, delivers an improved user experience for large scale clusters, UI enhancements for ease of navigation and the ability to run reports to analyze volumes by time stamps.

Any data workload – from the edge, to the core, to the cloud – can be handled by our industry leading PowerScale portfolio of scale-out NAS solutions easily. For example, our:

- All-flash nodes are performance optimized with optional NVIDIA GPUDirect support to provide the extreme performance needed by modern workloads such as AI, ML, analytics, genomic sequencing and EDA workloads. We have proven in labs – not theoretical numbers – that we can scale linearly up to 252GB/sec of read throughput.7 And since PowerScale, part of the NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage Partner Ecosystem, can scale up to 252 nodes in a single namespace, it doesn’t stop there and can scale far beyond that if needed.
- Archive nodes are capacity optimized and are very well suited for faster active archive workloads as well as deep archive workloads.
- Hybrid nodes are ideal for the best price/performance results needed by mixed workloads, such as media and entertainment, healthcare, life sciences, analytics, automotive – leveraging SmartPool technology to intelligently deliver performance required based on previous usage patterns.
- Cloud storage solutions for unstructured data offer multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments for demanding HPC data-driven workloads where, without a need to do any application re-platforming, they can be combined with the native services of cloud providers such as Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.

Source: How Flexibility is Redefining NAS for the Data Era – Dell Technologies

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