Podcast #113: Dell PowerScale and the Impact of QLC SSDs

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Brian connects with Dell’s Product Management VP, David Noy for this week’s podcast. David has a varied background but focuses on software-defined technology, scale-out storage, hyperconverged compute platforms, and data center and cloud virtualization.

Brian connects with Dell’s Product Management VP, David Noy for this week’s podcast. David has a varied background but focuses on software-defined technology, scale-out storage, hyperconverged compute platforms, and data center and cloud virtualization.

If you think back to Dell Technologies World, there were a number of announcements around software-defined and as-a-service options relating to storage and, more specifically, PowerScale. Dell believes the PowerScale is the most flexible and secure scale-out NAS solution on the market. Brian asks some pointed questions about Dell’s as-a-service consumption models as well as SSD partners.

It is an interesting conversation with specifics on Dell tests for SSD endurance and reliability. Dell uses the test results to determine how long the SSDs remain under warranty. David also discusses server densities and how that affects overall TCO. Overall this is a great primer for any PowerScale customer considering the new QLC SSD offering from Dell.

This is an interesting discussion about storage technology and the server market. It is definitely worth the time, but if you want to jump straight into a topic, the timestamps are below.

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00:00 Introduction

• David’s responsibilities with Dell Technologies
• A short recap of Dell Tech World
• PowerScale as-a-Service
• Software-Defined OneFS

05:00 Cloud Delivery

• Steps to get to Cloud Delivery
• OneFS
• Abstract from hardware
• Feature Parity
• QLC adoption
• How drives are used

10:00 QLC Drive Capacities

• Densities
• Quality and Endurance
• Write performance
• Read performance

15:00 Bigger capacities are always preferred

• Density rules
• Datasets are expanding
• What will Dell do to increase densities
• Jamming more drives in servers
• Tuning performance
• Customer pushback

20:00 Multi-Source

• Solidigm
• Whatever the customer seeks
• Spreading the data load

25:00 Endurance

• Dell’s tests to ensure endurance
• Drive performance with workloads
• Software alerts on drive performance
• Security
• Cyber Protection

30:00 Backup products

• Takes the right product
• focus on user behavior
• Protecction alternatives
• PowerScale Solution

35:00 Data Security Ownership

• Driven by CISO
• Repercussions
• Can Solution scale across product line

40:00 It’s an Antivirus World

• What will get backed up?
• Alpine
• Alternatives to spin off data
• Agility

45:00 Dell’s supply chain

• Agility is critical
• Wrap-up

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