Scale-Out by Design
Add nodes and the OneFS single namespace grows in capacity and performance together. No forklift upgrades, no volume juggling.
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What it is, and why teams use it.
What Dell PowerScale is
Dell PowerScale, formerly Isilon, is the industry standard for scale-out network-attached storage in media, VFX and broadcast. A single OneFS namespace grows from tens of terabytes to multiple petabytes by adding nodes, with performance scaling alongside capacity.
Storm FX is a Dell Technologies Authorised Partner and sizes PowerScale to your pipeline, from a first all-flash tier to facility-wide storage.
Where it fits
Storm FX supplies PowerScale to media, VFX and post facilities across Australia and New Zealand. We scope node types, capacity and network with you before anything is quoted.
Key features
What Dell PowerScale brings.
Built for Concurrency
Hundreds of simultaneous render nodes, artists and editors on the same filesystem is the design point, not the stress test.
All-Flash to Archive
Node types from the all-flash F910 through hybrid and archive tiers let hot production data and deep asset libraries live in one system.
Multi-Protocol Access
SMB, NFS, S3 and HDFS against the same data, so creative, pipeline and analytics tools all see one source of truth.
Proven in Media & Entertainment
PowerScale (as Isilon) has been the reference storage platform for VFX, broadcast and post facilities for two decades.
Use cases
How it plays out in practice.
VFX & Animation Facilities
Render farms and artist workstations share one namespace sized to the show, scaling capacity mid-production when shot counts grow.
Broadcast & Post
Ingest, editorial, grading and delivery run against the same high-throughput storage without media wrangling between islands.
Across industries
Where Dell PowerScale earns its keep.
In production
Dell PowerScale at work.
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