Aiming to power up all-flash data lakes
Today’s most demanding unstructured data workloads are difficult for many storage systems to handle, because they require massive amounts of CPU and GPU processing power and require the ability to scale capacity and performance seamlessly.
To address this Dell EMC has announced its most powerful node yet – the Dell EMC PowerScale F900. The latest addition to the PowerScale all-flash lineup features dual-socket cascade lake processors, all-NVMe flash and NVIDIA GPUDirect compatibility to handle the most data intensive workloads.
With this release, users get more power and scale through fast all-NVMe, support for GPU accelerated applications, and the ability to easily scale up to 93 PB in one cluster. The F900 is designed to be 'the workhorse of modern, high performance data lakes'.
Companies want their file storage systems to keep pace with the unpredictable demands of a digital business. Recent research from the Enterprise Strategy Group found big data/data lake repositories for unstructured data to be among the top three workloads respondents were investing in to keep pace with the demands of a digital business.
With this new release Dell EMC users also get more flexibility and choice for their unstructured data storage needs in the edge, core and public cloud. Users can easily add in new F900 nodes or replace old nodes with new PowerScale nodes, all while having seamless compatibility with existing Isilon clusters, thanks to the PowerScale OneFS operating system.
"We’re excited for the additional power and flexibility made available to us with the latest PowerScale all-flash platform and updates to OneFS. Knowing we can simply swap in the latest generation while the cluster remains online keeps us worry free," said Keith Bradley, Director of Information Technology, Nature Fresh Farms. "With PowerScale all-flash we can support our most demanding data workloads – from new edge use cases, to the core data centre, and potential public cloud workloads."
