Dell Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Gartner defines file and object storage platforms as software and/or hardware platforms that offer object and distributed file system technologies for storing and managing unstructured data over NFS, SMB and Amazon S3 access protocols.
File and object storage platforms store, secure, protect and scale an organization’s unstructured data with access over the network using protocols such as NFS, SMB and Amazon S3. Use cases include analytics, workload consolidation, backup and archiving, hybrid cloud, object-native applications, cloud IT operations, and high-performance files.

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File and Object Storage Platforms

Dell PowerScale

Dell ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage)

Dell Object Scale

Dell Technologies

Application Engineer

Our overall experience with the vendor has been very good. The product has performed consistenly in real operational conditions and integrates well with our exitsting processes. Technical support understands the product in depth and provides practical solutions rather than generic responses. While a few process- related delays were observed, the vendor remains reliable and responsive, making them a dependable long term partner

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50M - 250M USD

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Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees

10B - 30B USD

IT Manager

Sales and Sales tech are very responsive and helpful. Some of the product support (DataIQ, etc.) has been lacking. PowerScale itself works well.

Graduate Engineer Traniee

PowerScale runs smooth on our 15PB file cluster-99.999% uptime, scales linearly by adding nodes, delivers 8M IOPS mixed NFS with sub-1ms latency. Perfect for heavy file serving.
Overall performance was good and you should also prefer and try this with yours systems too

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Favorable Review

Linear Scaling And Sub-Millisecond Latency Highlighted With Large PowerScale Cluster

Critical Review

Challenges Faced in PowerScale's Peripheral Product Support

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