In the evolving digital world, enterprises are seeking more than simple storage solutions; they require platforms that foster innovation, scale smoothly, and adapt to rigorous workloads.
Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure addresses these demands, combining high performance, comprehensive security, and seamless integration.
Developed collaboratively with Microsoft, this enterprise-class file storage solution equips organizations to drive significant advancements.
Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure
Through a native Azure integration and backed by Dell’s extensive expertise, PowerScale for Azure represents a robust file storage option tailored for challenging workloads.
Employing custom NVRAM-enabled compute SKUs, PowerScale for Azure achieves up to four times the performance of competing solutions, delivering unparalleled speed, minimal latency, and optimized throughput for data-intensive applications.
Effortless scaling and Multi-Protocol Support
PowerScale for Azure enables rapid, efficient scaling with support for up to 8.4PB of storage
PowerScale for Azure enables rapid, efficient scaling with support for up to 8.4PB of storage in a unified namespace, significantly simplifying the management of evolving workloads.
It also offers comprehensive multi-protocol support, accommodating NFS, SMB, and S3 protocols simultaneously. This versatility allows teams to deploy a wide range of applications without the constraints of single-purpose solutions or vendor limitations.
Familiar Interface and Trusted Management
By maintaining the familiar PowerScale interface, users enjoy a seamless experience whether their data is on-premises or in the cloud. Dell offers end-to-end management, handling installation, upgrades, and monitoring, thereby freeing IT teams to focus on driving innovation.
The incorporation of a zero-trust architecture and built-in ransomware recovery positions security at the forefront, ensuring data integrity and resilience against threats.
Driving High-Value Use Cases
PowerScale for Azure facilitates numerous high-value applications essential to digital transformation. Its infrastructure supports machine learning, AI, and analytics by allowing compute-intensive workloads to be processed quickly without overprovisioning.
By leveraging the extensive Azure compute network, teams can meet crucial deadlines and unlock market opportunities, all without facing bottlenecks.
Adaptable for Industry Needs
In sectors like Media & Entertainment, handling large video files and tight production schedules, PowerScale for Azure delivers the speed, protocol support, and hybrid simplicity required for efficient content management.
For Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and life sciences, it accelerates collaborative workflows and research by providing scalable, secure storage, accommodating future growth without service interruptions.
Ensuring Continuous Data Protection
To minimize risks of downtime and data loss, PowerScale for Azure incorporates asynchronous replication within Azure using SyncIQ.
This feature extends data protection and enhances recovery capabilities across environments, ensuring compliance and readiness in case of disasters.
Flexible Management Options
Customers can choose their preferred management model. Dell Managed offers simplicity and comprehensive support, covering deployment, scaling, and monitoring with unified billing through Microsoft.
Alternatively, the Customer Managed option grants full control over configurations and customizations. Both models provide reliable performance and robust security to meet varied operational needs.
Starting with Dell PowerScale for Azure is straightforward. Through the Microsoft Marketplace, users can access the service, selecting from options like Standard, Plus, or Premium plans. Integration is seamless via NFS, SMB, or S3, aligning with on-premises and cloud environments, as well as future technological landscapes.
Dell PowerScale for Azure extends beyond mere storage; it acts as a catalyst for organizations aiming to advance securely and confidently in the data era. Through the collaborative efforts of Dell and Microsoft, businesses can unlock and harness the true potential of their data assets.
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In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, enterprises need more than just storage, they need a platform that drives innovation, scales effortlessly, and adapts to their most demanding workloads.
Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure is purpose-built to meet these needs. Co-developed with Microsoft, this enterprise-class file storage solution delivers high performance, robust security, and seamless integration, empowering organizations to achieve their next breakthrough.
From accelerating AI and managing media production to ensuring business continuity, PowerScale for Azure is the foundation for success in the data-driven era.
Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure
An Azure Native integration co-developed with Microsoft and built on a legacy of storage leadership; Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure is here. This is enterprise-class file storage, purpose-built for today’s most demanding workloads and managed by the experts at Dell.
With NVRAM-enabled custom compute SKUs, engineered exclusively for Dell, PowerScale for Azure delivers blazing-fast performance up to 4x greater performance than its closest competitor. These purpose-built instances are designed to power the next breakthrough, offering ultra-low latency and optimized throughput to handle even the most data-intensive applications with ease.
- Effortless Scale in a Single Namespace: PowerScale for Azure allows users to scale out rapidly and efficiently, supporting up to 8.4PB of storage in a single namespace. Tackle massive and evolving workloads without pause or complexity.
- Multi-Protocol Support: Take full advantage of NFS, SMB, and S3 protocols running simultaneously, so teams can support a broad range of applications and avoid the limits of single-purpose solutions or vendor lock-in.
- The PowerScale Experience Users Know: Leverage the familiar, unified PowerScale interface the IT teams already know. Whether the data is on-premises or in Azure, users get the same operational simplicity and consistent user experience.
- Fully Managed by Dell Experts: One vendor to handle the whole experience so the team is free to focus on driving innovation, not managing infrastructure. Dell handles deployment, upgrades, monitoring, and support, delivering robust, proactive management every step of the way.
- Security at Every Turn: With zero-trust architecture, always-on encryption, continuous backup, and built-in ransomware recovery, users can face threats with a hardened defense posture.
High-value use cases
Modern innovation is powered by workloads that cannot afford compromise. Dell PowerScale for Azure enables high-value use cases that fuel digital transformation:
High-performance infrastructure
Machine learning, AI, and analytics need flexible, high-performance infrastructure. PowerScale for Azure lets users burst these compute-intensive workloads to the cloud instantly, no overprovisioning required.
A team can train AI models or run major analytics jobs, with scalability and access to Azure’s extensive compute network to meet deadlines and capitalize on market opportunities without architectural bottlenecks.
High-throughput access
Tomorrow’s intelligent applications, including agentic AI and next-generation automation, demand storage that keeps pace.
With PowerScale for Azure, users gain the performance and scale to feed distributed AI pipelines, run inference at cloud speed, and adapt to the specialized demands of both experimental and enterprise-grade AI. Harness high-throughput access for workloads where traditional storage simply can’t keep up.
Production workloads across industry verticals
Media & Entertainment (M&E)
Handling massive video files, real-time editing, and tight production timelines, M&E companies rely on high-speed, hybrid data environments. PowerScale for Azure offers the throughput, simultaneous protocol support, and hybrid simplicity needed for rapid ingest, editing, and archiving across locations. Production teams can scale up for big releases, down when projects close, and focus on creativity. And with robust security, critical media assets are always protected.
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Semiconductor and electronics design automation produce massive datasets and demand fast, collaborative workflows. Accelerate simulation, modeling, and design workflows with unified, scalable storage so global design teams can work together, handle simulation spikes, and move products to market faster.
Life Sciences
Empower research and development teams to analyze large datasets, run simulations, and drive discoveries with high-performance access and secure, compliant storage. Scale up as clinical projects advance, without service disruption.
Asynchronous replication
Downtime and data loss aren’t options. PowerScale for Azure streamlines disaster recovery by enabling asynchronous replication into Azure with SyncIQ. This extends the data protection across environments, ensuring compliance and rapid recovery should disaster strike.
Tailored experience
Tailored experience with the service model that fits the operations. With Dell Managed, enjoy simplicity and end-to-end support, Dell handles deployment, scaling, upgrades, and monitoring so teams can focus on what matters most.
Users benefit from a seamless, cloud-native experience, single-point Dell support, and unified billing with Microsoft. As a MACC-eligible solution, users can also apply the Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment to streamline procurement and maximize their cloud investment.
Prefer more control? Select Customer Managed to tailor and tune PowerScale for Azure to exact parameters, with full access to configuration and customization. Both options deliver proven performance, enterprise security, and a consistent operational model to meet users where they are.
Getting started
Getting started is simple:
- Access Dell PowerScale in the Microsoft Marketplace: Use the cloud portal.
- Choose the Right Fit: Select from Standard, Plus, or Premium plans to launch the cluster one needs, fortified and fit for whatever the future holds.
- Connect and Create: Seamlessly integrate via NFS, SMB, or S3 for apps that span on-prem, cloud, and tomorrow’s as-yet-unimagined environments.
Catalyst for organizations
PowerScale for Azure is more than storage – it’s a catalyst for organizations looking to move quickly, securely, and confidently in the data era. With Dell and Microsoft working together, discover the power to make the data unstoppable.
