Case Study Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) Ryan Parker-Hill System Team Leader at Deakin University Review by a Real User Verified by IT Central Station What is our primary use case? Research data Departmental file shares Data centre storage: NFS We have two data centres in our university. We have Cisco UCS, Pure Storage, and are heavily virtualised with VMware. PowerScale is our unstructured data storage platform. It provides scaled-out storage and our high-level NFS across applications. It also provides all the storage for our researchers and business areas, as well as students, on the network. With the exception of block workloads, which is primarily VMware, Oracle Databases, etc., everything else it is on PowerScale. It definitely has allowed us to consolidate the ease of management. How

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