Software that has been cobbled together over decades via internal development and/or acquisition is often not only difficult to implement and upgrade, it is difficult to procure. Initially these solutions might be competitive, but inevitably the market innovation will pass them by and you’re left with being tied to an old architecture that runs on dated hardware.īeing locked into a single vendor’s solutions prevents you from taking advantage of new technologies such as the cloud and limits how easily you can adapt to a changing world – think of how the last few months have changed the workforce during the COVID pandemic.ĭell EMC’s software architecture is overly complex and has evolved in a Frankenstein-ian way. One way for storage vendors like Isilon to make themselves “sticky” – meaning hard for you to move away from – is to run their software only on hardware that they create. Are you being held hostage with vendor lock-in nickel and dime-ing? Isilon has a tool called InsightIQ that can be purchased separately to provide information into your storage environment, but only after it does a file scan or a tree walk. By their very nature, these extensive and time-consuming tree walks are often outdated by the time they finish, if they finish at all.ĭoes Isilon provide real-time visibility into your file system’s capacity, throughput, and IOPS? Technically the answer might be yes, but at an additional cost and only if you can get the tree-walks to complete while the data is still relevant. Given the billions of files that organizations are trying to manage today, these tree walks can take hours or days. Is your productivity being hampered by incessant tree walks and complex management?Ī “tree-walk” is a detailed scan of the entire file system, used by Dell EMC Isilon to determine the status of data and/or the system’s performance. One thing that often catches system administrators by surprise is what we call the “small file tax” (See my related blog post here). Given the surge in machine-generated data (which is often composed of small files) understanding how data protection is handled for small files is key to getting the most out of your storage budget. Purchasing Isilon storage can often feel very similar. You would be slowly clunking away as you drove down the highway feeling very frustrated that you didn’t get what you paid for. Oftentimes, buying Isilon can feel a lot like going to the local car dealer, haggling over the price of a car, thinking you have struck a deal and then, when your car is finally delivered, being told you can only use three of the four tires you bought, and needed. Can you really use 100% of the usable storage capacity you buy? Dell Technologies World starts today and if your organization is considering Dell EMC PowerScale (formally Isilon) for your file or unstructured data storage, here are five things to consider before signing on the dotted line.
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