User Reviews of Dell PowerScale (Isilon)

Updated May 2025

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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) review

Ryan Parker-Hill
Ryan Parker-Hill
System Team Leader at Deakin University
As you add more nodes in a cluster, you get more effective utilisation
Their SmartQuotas feature is probably the thing that we use most heavily and consistently. Because it is a scaled-out NAS product, you end up with clusters of multiple petabytes. This allows you to have quotas for people and present smaller chunks of storage to different users and applications, managing oversubscription very easily. We use...
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) review

Cheyne Skapyak
Cheyne Skapyak
Storage & Data Protection Specialist at General Dynamics Land Systems
User interface and scripting enable automation, providing consistent support
Since our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is our own on-prem in-house built system, we don't have many up-to-date resources, and we're still a few years behind. We don't use much of the PowerScale yet with AI, though we have plans to work towards that in the next month or two. I would want to see more AI features with Dell PowerScale (Isilon).

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