19 Platforms — Distributed File Systems & Object Storage
01
Dell PowerScale is a distributed file system (DFS) for
on-premises and Google Cloud. Dell ObjectScale
(rebranded from ECS) is an enterprise-grade, cloud-scale
object storage platform forming the core of the Dell AI
Data Platform.
Object Storage
S3-Compatible
AI Data Platform
02
IBM Storage Scale (formerly IBM Spectrum Scale / GPFS)
is a high-performance parallel file system for AI, HPC,
and advanced analytics. IBM's Cloud Object Storage (COS)
complements it for hybrid cloud object workloads.
Parallel File System
HPC
AI Storage
03
With massive scale and robust security, HCP eases data
control and access — delivering a unified object and
file storage environment with enterprise-grade
governance, search and retention.
Object Storage
Data Governance
Enterprise
04
A single distributed storage product spanning file,
block and object storage, purpose-built for
massive-scale unstructured data workloads in media,
genomics, HPC and data lakes.
Unified Storage
File + Block + Object
Data Lake
05
Simple, secure, scale-out and S3-compatible object
storage that extends your hybrid cloud to massive scale,
with native Nutanix platform integration and AOS data
efficiency.
S3-Compatible
Hybrid Cloud
Scale-Out
06
Extract more value from your growing data sets for up to
80% less than alternative object storage systems — built
for media, video surveillance and life sciences at
exabyte scale.
Object Storage
Media & Entertainment
Cost-Efficient
07
Comprehensive Amazon S3-compatible object storage plus
POSIX-compatible NFS and SMB in a single system, with
enterprise-grade data protection and no single point of
failure.
S3-Compatible
NFS / SMB
Multi-Protocol
08
Turnkey long-term retention solution for large-scale
deployments combining NAS and object storage
capabilities — ideal for backup targets requiring high
durability and tiered archival.
Backup Storage
Archival
Enterprise NAS
09
The radically simple way to manage unstructured data in
any environment — on-premises, AWS, Azure or GCP — with
real-time analytics, multi-protocol support and
exabyte-scale capacity.
Unstructured Data
Multi-Cloud
Real-time Analytics
10
The industry's most advanced all-flash platform for fast
file and object data consolidation — powering AI/ML
pipelines, analytics, EDA and modern high-performance
workloads at scale.
All-Flash
Fast File & Object
AI / ML
11
Unified software solution for both file and object
storage in a single platform — targeting large-scale
data center deployments with high-density storage and
multi-protocol access.
Unified Storage
Data Center
High-Density
12
Software-defined object storage suite supporting a wide
range of use cases across public, private and hybrid
multicloud environments, with robust policy-based data
lifecycle management.
Software-Defined
Object Storage
Multicloud
13
Weka's data platform built on WekaFS offers the
simplicity of NAS, the performance of SAN/DAS and the
scale of object storage — purpose-built to feed GPUs for
generative AI workloads.
WekaFS
GPU Storage
Generative AI
14
S3-compatible object storage deployable wherever
capacity is needed — on-premises, remote offices or edge
locations — with seamless scale-out and strong erasure
coding data protection.
S3-Compatible
Edge Storage
Scale-Out
15
Advanced Lustre-based parallel file system delivering
extreme performance, scalability and reliability for AI
inference, HPC and data-intensive workloads — supporting
GPUDirect Storage natively.
Lustre
Parallel File System
HPC / AI
16
Transform your NAS and improve data reduction while
lowering TCO — an easy-to-manage file and object
solution with AI-based threat detection and immutable
recovery points for ransomware resilience.
File & Object
NAS Modernization
Data Security
17
High-performance S3-compatible object storage available
on every public cloud, every Kubernetes distribution,
the private cloud and the edge — the leading open-source
object storage project.
Open Source
S3-Compatible
Kubernetes-Native
18
Software-defined storage (SDS) platform handling general
purpose workloads including backup, archival and
analytics — built on GlusterFS with enterprise support
and Red Hat ecosystem integration.
Software-Defined
GlusterFS
General Purpose
19
Open, massively scalable, simplified storage for modern
data pipelines — delivering unified block, file and
object storage on commodity hardware with strong
OpenShift/Kubernetes integration.
Open Source
Ceph
Unified Block/File/Object