10Reasons why PowerScale
OneFS is ideal for all yourfile workloads

Optimized for AI, PowerScale plays a critical rolein powering performance-intensive use cases
providing a scalable storage platform that meets
our customers at their business needs.
Create a modern, energy efficient storage
foundation to run your AI workloads withunmatched performance.
Establish a single point of data access using
a common data lake across on-premises,
cloud and edge environments.
Secure your critical file data with built-in,
AI-driven threat detection and respondquickly if an attack occurs.

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Simplicity at anyscale

Public cloud storage
with data control

Exceptional storage
efficiency

Intelligent insights
into your data

Simultaneous multiprotocol accessIntegrations withyour applications

Always protected,
secure, compliant

Expertise andleadership

Edge, core, cloud
deployment flexibility

A complete,interconnected
portfolio

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NEXT1Simplicity at anyscale

POWERSCALE:

Our AI-ready data
platform delivers
ANY SCALE

One pool of storage from 3 to252 nodes... and up to 186PB
raw capacity
Start small and grow to petabyte scale
without downtime. Add new nodes in 60
seconds, add processing, memory, cacheand storage to grow with your needs andremain simple no matter how large yourdata gets. Always stay secure and reliable
at any scale.

“PowerScale enables our videos to go fromendpoints to nodes running the content inseconds. It’s the best storage on the market.”
Jad Zouein
Director of Creative and Media Technology
Outnernet

Non-disruptive scaling
NO NODE LEFT BEHIND

Add new and remove old nodes withoutdowntime

FORRESTER REPORT

Read this Forrester report onthe TEI of PowerScaleRANSOMWARE PROTECTION

Stop ransomware in real-time with
API-integrated solution

READ NOWRESILIENT

Sustain multi-node failuresdesigned for 6x9s availability
EFFICIENT

500TB/admin
Admin-to-capacity
ratio prior state

5PB/adminwith PowerScale

Inline data reduction with no hot spots
DEVOPS READYAnsible and Kubernetes integration
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Exceptional storage
efficiency

SmartDedupe & Inline Data
Reduction with PowerScale, theworld’s most efficient NAS solution.**Up to 80% storage efficiency
for lower costs. Thank youOneFS.

*All PowerScale nodes deliver highspeed in-line data compression anddeduplication to improve storage
utilization, while a single data lakeeliminates data silos for maximum
efficiency. We provide a storage data
reduction ratio guarantee under ourFuture-Proof Program to help you size
your storage arrays for future growthrequirements.

Based on Dell analysis comparing efficiency-related features: data reduction, storage
capacity, data protection, hardware, space, lifecycle management efficiency, and ENERGYSTAR certified configurations, June 2023.
**“We simplified system upgrades greatly withPowerScale OneFS. Once you set up yourreplication and SmartPools, it just works
reliably.”
Michael Fox
Head of Information and Communication Technology
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust“This is the best platform we could have forstorage utilization. It is affordable and scalable.”
Maurizio Davini
Chief Technology Officer
University of Pisa*

Based on Dell Technologies internal analysis conducted in April 2021.

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3SM

HTB

OneFS

Data monetization

Containers

FDH

S

Splunk

AI/ML

REST

F TP

Application test

SNF

Support universal access – NFS, SMB,HDFS, S3, NDMP, REST, HTTP, and FTP
protocols to the same shared data pool –to create an effective data lake strategy.
Keep data connected and accessible toall users with minimal effort. Handle any
workload - from traditional file-based
workloads to the most demanding,modern workloads such as AI/ML.

S3

Archive

Design/test

End data silos and enable
collaboration.

Social media

TP

Simultaneous multiprotocol access

Safety and security

N DM P“We create, store and share the big image
files we use in cell pathology, hematology
and radiology on PowerScale. Care providers
and specialists collaboratively review digitalslides without worrying about file sizes orstorage performance.”

Hadoop analytics
File Shares
ContentBlobs
Marketing“It scales seamlessly... Now creating or
expanding a PowerScale cluster is almostimmediate.”
Maurizio Davini
Chief Technology Officer
University of Pisa

Professor Graham Evans
Chief Information and Technology Officer and Senior
Information Risk Owner
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
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4Virus scanning

Always protected,secure, compliant

WORM

Protection

SmartLock Compliance

Encryption

External key manager

Data-at-rest, Data-at-Flight

OneFS
nativesecurity
features

Customizable role-basedaccess control

The world’s most cybersecurescale-out NAS solution*
is designed for up to 6x9s
availability to protect your AI
workloads.
Protect and secure critical data assets
from outages and cyber attacks withenterprise-grade availability, redundancy,security, data protection and replication.
API-integrated ransomware protection
solution with Smart AirGap and Cyber
Recovery Vault helps to defend andprotect data from cyber attacks.
We take data protection seriously withHIPPA, PCI DSS and CCPA compliancebuilt-in. Federal certifications include DISA
Approved Product List (APL), Common
Criteria List and USGv6R1.
*Based on Dell analysis comparing security software capabilities offered for Dell
PowerScale vs. competitive products, September 2022.

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Access zones

For data segregation
UEFI Secure Boot

For Data-at-Rest Encryption
Multi-protocol ACLs

Cross protocol security and auditing
STIG-hardenedSecurity profile
Federal certifications

Across PowerScale platforms

Zero Trust Architecture

DISA APL, Common Criteria List andUSGv6R1

SOME OF THE RECENTLY ADDED FEATURES:• Multi-factor authentication withsupport for CAC/PIVPROTECTRESPOND

DETECT

Reduce attack
surfaceproactively

Recover rapidly
if an attack
occursAnalyze
suspicious
behaviour toprevent anattack• Software-based firewall• SSO for administrative WebUI• FIPS-compliant data in flight• QLC SED drives

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5Edge, core, cloud
deployment flexibility
Deploy OneFS anywhere yourdata is. Take advantage of yourentire data estate for AI on-premises, edge, core, cloudand cloud-adjacent.
Our objective is to give you the flexibility
and a range of choices when it comesto your data. With OneFS you canstore, protect and manage your filedata consistently and safely acrossyour environments – from on-premises
appliances to as-a-service Dell APEX
private cloud, to multicloud and cloud
adjacent colocation, and now also as asoftware-defined offer in the public cloud.
Leverage the proven OneFS platform tomeet your business needs, wherever yourunstructured data resides.

MULTICLOUD SERVICEPRIVATE CLOUD SERVICENATIVE CLOUD SERVICE

DELL APEX FILE STORAGE FOR AWSDIRECT CONNECTION

FUTURE
OFFERSAPEX STORAGE FOR PRIVATE CLOUDMULTICLOUDDATA SERVICES

NATIVE REPLICATION“The beauty of our multi-cloud solution is
we pay for only what we consume. My
team no longer has to manage storage
and security and instead can focus moreon innovation.”Matt Douglas
Chief Enterprise Architect
Sentara Healthcare

NATIVE REPLICATION“Being able to archive and tier data to ourown private servers and replicate the dataaround the world and recall it almost
instantly is super-important to us.”
Jon Landau
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Public cloud storage
with data control
Simplify your cloud experience
with file storage that you knowand trust
Dell APEX File Storage for AWS delivers
enterprise-class, high-performance scaleout file storage as a software-definedoffer in AWS. Based on Dell’s leading filestorage technology that you know andtrust, this customer-managed solution
can simplify your journey to the cloud withseamless data mobility and operational
consistency between on-premises andthe cloud.

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NATIVEREPLICATIONPowerScale OneFS on-premises

Seamless data
mobility tothe cloudSame user
experience as
on-prem

OneFS enterprisefeatures & security

Scale-out architecture
for performance andscale

DESIGNED FOR

Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Burst

File SharesMedia &Environment

Directories

Life Sciences

Video

Artificial
Intelligence

ArchiveAnalytics

Up to4.3x

better performance**Writes performance when compared with the closest competitor.
Prowess comparative white paper, May 2023. READ NOWBACKNEXT7Intelligent insights
into your data
Get more from your data andstorage with CloudIQ andInsightIQ.
Easily determine the health of yourinfrastructure from the palm of your handwith CloudIQ. Utilize advanced analytics
to optimize applications, correlate cluster
events, and accurately forecast futurestorage needs with InsightIQ.

Faster time to insights with CloudIQ

Across Dell Storage Portfolio“The solution has definitely freed up a lotof time... PowerScale allows us to focus
on data management rather than storage
management and helps us get the mostout of our data.”
Bill Sharp
Senior Vice President
EarthCam, Inc.
Advanced cluster insights and monitoring with InsightIQ

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NEXT8Integrates with yourapplications

UNMATCHED INDUSTRY ISV ECOSYSTEM WITH 250+ ISV TESTS AND VALIDATIONS

250+ industry application
integrations and certifications.
Our storage and data management
portfolio is designed to work seamlessly
with your existing business applications
to power data engineering, data science,
data warehouse, and data lake projects.
Support Apache Flink, Spark and Hadoop,Dremio, Databricks, Adobe, NVIDIA, AMD,Kalray, Cribl, Rubrik, Dremio, Splunk anda universe of modern data analytics
applications with PowerScale.

ACompany“HPC serves to help us understand strategy
calls and so we’ll simulate hundreds of millions
of permutations of the race to understand whatmight happen if it started raining on a given lap,
or if a competitor in front of us was to spin off,
or if the safety car was to come out. It helps us
augment our decision-making capabilities.”“Together, PowerEdge Servers and PowerScale storage help us ensure that the data
our clients review and analyze remains availableand secure. Our clients can improve patient safety
or even save lives because the Dell Technologies
solutions support analytics based on massive
amounts of data.”

Edward Green
Head of Commercial Technology
McLaren Racing

David J. Brzozowski Jr
Chief Technology OfficerMedacist

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9Dell Technologies named a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic
Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage
for 8th consecutive year in a row – a Leader every year since
the commencement.

Expertise andleadership

Positioned highest for ability to execute.

2,000+ healthcare customers,
1,900+ financial firms, 8/10
top broadcasters and 8/10 topbiotechs.
Proven expertise in 22+ verticals andhorizontal applications, including 43% of
the safety and security market, 100+ deeplearning, 400+ analytics and 4,500 backup
and archive customers. Our solutions
won a Technology & Engineering Emmy®
Award and were selected by NBC
Olympics to store digital video content
from the Tokyo Olympics.

READ NOW

Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage” by Chandra Mukhyala, Jeff Vogel and Julia Palmer, November 1, 2023.
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“Like the gifted athletes selected to compete
in the Olympics for the ultimate glory,
Dell Technologies is honored to have beenchosen to help NBCUniversal bring the powerfulstories of victory and defeat to viewers worldwide.
With PowerScale, NBC Olympics will reliably store
and simply manage more than 7,000 hours of
athletic heroics across its networks and streaming
platforms while making the experience for thosewatching remotely better than ever.”Jeff Boudreau
President and General Manager
Infrastructure Solutions Group at Dell Technologies

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“Dell Technologies has been a valued partner for
more than a decade and will continue to play animportant role into the future.”
Tim Bicio
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10A complete,interconnectedportfolio

Stop managing your storage and start innovating with your data withPowerScale OneFS, our AI-ready data platform which helps accelerate yourAI workloads wherever your data is.
DELL.COM/POWERSCALE

PowerScale OneFS, ECS, andObjectScale Data Platform.
Address all of your unstructured data
workloads with a powerful portfolio ofindustry leading solutions to handle fileand object storage from the data center
to the edge and cloud.

*Based on internal analysis of publicly available information sources, February 2023.

“The scale we operate at, the real timenature of what we do… you need reallypowerful compute resource to do that.
And we have that through our partnershipwith Dell.”Mike Whittaker
Chief Technology Officer
OUTERNET“Our partnership with Dell Technologies
allows us to take advantage of the fullbreadth and depth of their compute, storage,
networking and security solutions.”
David J. Brzozowski Jr.
Chief Technology Officer
Medacist

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