As enterprises navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the demand for a solution that goes beyond mere storage is apparent.
Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure is expertly designed to address these demands by facilitating innovation, providing effortless scalability, and seamlessly adapting to complex workloads.
This file storage solution, developed in collaboration with Microsoft, offers high performance, dependable security, and effortless integration, thus empowering organisations to realise their next major advancements.
Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure
Co-developed with Microsoft, Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure promises an enterprise-grade file storage solution explicitly crafted to handle today's most challenging workloads.
Leveraging custom compute SKUs equipped with NVRAM developed exclusively for Dell, this configuration significantly outperforms competitors by demonstrating up to four times more speed. Equipped to handle data-intensive applications, PowerScale provides exceptional throughput and minimal latency.
Efficient scaling and multi-protocol support
Offering scalability up to 8.4PB under a single namespace, PowerScale for Azure efficiently supports massive and dynamically changing workloads. Its multi-protocol capability allows the use of NFS, SMB, and S3 simultaneously, catering to a broad array of applications and eliminating potential vendor lock-ins.
Familiar user experience and robust management
PowerScale brings a familiar interface that IT teams recognise, ensuring consistency in user experience whether data is local or hosted in Azure.
Managed entirely by Dell’s seasoned experts, the system alleviates the burden of infrastructure management, letting teams concentrate on innovation. Dell handles implementation, upgrades, monitoring, and continuous support to deliver proactive management.
Advanced security measures
Security remains paramount, with PowerScale implementing a zero-trust architecture, perpetual encryption, continuous data backup, and integrated ransomware recovery to insulate users from threats. This ensures that organisations operate with a robust defence capabilities.
Supporting high-value use cases
PowerScale is vital for modern innovation, specifically engineered for uncompromising workload demands. Whether for AI, machine learning, or analytic environments, users seamlessly move compute-heavy tasks to the cloud without overprovisioning, maintaining flexibility and high performance.
Media and Entertainment (M&E)
PowerScale allows media companies to manage extensive video files, facilitate real-time editing, and adhere to demanding production timelines. It enables easy scalability tailored to project needs while safeguarding critical assets with stringent security protocols.
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
The semiconductor and electronics industries' intricate design processes benefit from enhanced simulation and modelling capabilities provided by PowerScale. It empowers global teams to expedite product development and efficiently manage workflow spikes.
Life Sciences
Research and development in the life sciences sector benefit from secure, compliant storage solutions that facilitate the analysis of extensive datasets and the execution of simulations, all while ensuring disruption-free, scalable growth for project advancement.
Asynchronous replication and custom management
Ensuring an uninterrupted service, PowerScale integrates asynchronous replication through SyncIQ, expanding data protection across environments for swift disaster recovery. Users can opt for a fully managed experience by Dell or select a customised management setup to maintain optimum operational control.
Simple onboarding
Accessing Dell PowerScale via the Microsoft Marketplace is straightforward, with options to choose from Standard, Plus, or Premium plans to suit organisational requirements. Integration through NFS, SMB, or S3 allows connection across hybrid environments, providing robust infrastructure for future challenges.
PowerScale for Azure stands as a pivotal facilitator for organisations striving for agility, security, and confidence within the current data-centric era, jointly supported by the expertise of Dell and Microsoft.
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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 organisations 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 optimised 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 defence 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 capitalise 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 specialised 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, modelling, 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 analyse 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 maximise 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 customisation. 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 organisations
PowerScale for Azure is more than storage – it’s a catalyst for organisations 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.
