Dell Technologies PowerFlex
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Dell Technologies PowerFlex (previously known as ScaleIO and VxFlex OS), is a commercial software-defined storage product from Dell Technologies that creates a server-based storage area network (SAN) from local server storage using x86 servers. It converts this direct-attached storage into shared block storage that runs over an IP-based network.
Company type | Public |
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Industry | Computer hardware Software Cloud computing Data storage Information security Consulting |
Predecessors | Dell EMC Corporation |
Founded | September 7, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-09-07) as a merger of EMC Corporation and Dell Inc. |
Founder | Michael Dell |
Headquarters | Round Rock, Texas, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Michael Dell (Chairman and CEO) |
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Revenue | US$94.224 billion (2021) |
US$5.144 billion (2021) | |
US$3.505 billion (2021) | |
Total assets | US$123.415 billion (2021) |
Total equity | US$7.553 billion (2021) |
Number of employees | 158,000 (2021) |
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Website | dell |
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PowerFlex can scale from three compute/storage nodes to over 2,000 nodes that can drive up to 240 million IOPS of performance.[citation needed] PowerFlex is bundled with Dell commodity computing servers (officially called VxFlex Ready Nodes, PowerFlex appliance, and PowerFlex rack).
PowerFlex can be deployed as storage only or as a converged infrastructure combining storage, computational and networking resources into a single block. Capacity and performance of all available resources are aggregated and made available to every participating PowerFlex server and application. Storage tiers can be created with media types and drive types that match the ideal performance or capacity characteristics to best suit the application needs.