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DX Object Storage Platform. Overview Tech Specs Service and Support. What is object storage? Powerful data management. Superb cost management. Configuration Flexibility.

Do more with Dell. Partner Program. About Dell Technologies. Social Impact. Customer Engagement. Dell Newsroom. Dell Technologies. Privacy Statement. From web publishing to archiving, the Dell DX Object Storage Platform offers a powerful combination of data and storage management features through an elegant, self-managing, peer-scaling architecture. Store billions of files. Self-managing and self-healing.

Tech Specs. Service and Support. Metadata By incorporating metadata into objects, you can apply preservation, retention and deletion policies, lower management resources, and facilitate enhanced discovery. Suggested Product. Overview Misc Services. What is object storage? Object storage is the intelligent evolution of disk storage — creating, storing and distributing variable-sized data objects, and their associated metadata, rather than simply placing blocks of data on tracks and sectors.

Each object has its rich metadata inextricably linked to it, enabling long-term preservation while ensuring data remains safe and accessible over time. Metadata By incorporating metadata into objects, object-based storage enables you to apply preservation, retention and deletion policies — thereby reducing lower management resources — and to facilitate enhanced discovery.

Enhanced scalability An extremely large number of available addresses means a common storage pool can support literally billions of objects. Powerful data management Information is only valuable when it can be accessed, but keeping it readily available can be cumbersome and expensive. Object-based and metadata-aware disk storage lets you identify and retrieve information quickly; better leverage your data for decision-making; automatically manage that data from creation through deletion; and minimize your dependence on complex and sometimes unreliable tape storage.

Policy-based management provides automated, object-level retention and deletion based on metadata, eliminating the human errors, access and preservation problems that increase risk and drive up costs. Self-healing functionality continuously self-manages the integrity of stored objects to detect and repair errors and automatically reconfigures and regenerates objects without the need for IT intervention.

Dell is developing integrations with partners in areas such as medical archiving, file, email and SharePoint archiving, as well as eDiscovery, enterprise content management and cloud storage spaces. Information for ISV partners who would like to be a part of this program can be found here. Massively expand your system. Scale at your own pace. Flexible, peer-scaling architecture enables a perfect balance between capacity and throughput.

Transparent upgrades As storage needs evolve, you can easily add, replace or retire nodes without any manual migration requirements. Power optimization Configure power-optimization features, such as drive spin-down, to meet specific use-case and cost priorities. Scaling options Storage nodes are available in either 4-drive or drive configurations to meet your initial capacity needs, provide flexible capacity upgrades and achieve your unique performance requirements.

Dell Services IT Consulting Dell Services leverages a targeted consulting methodology based on experiences gained through thousands of customer engagements keeping projects on time and on task. Dell can collaboratively help you plan, assess and implement data management projects, and provide the training and knowledge handoff to help ensure your storage system's effectiveness.

DX Object Storage solution design DX Object Storage-specific data archiving design services help ensure successful implementation and deployment in complex environments. With Dell ProSupport you can customize your support services based on who you want supported, how you want them supported, and your preferred speed of response. Customize your support even further for specific needs such as asset and data protection or proactive support.

Storage Simplification Workshop Understand the potential. Comprehensive day engagement that provides an extensive review of your storage infrastructure data Insightful data collection and analysis in context of your business and operational environment Actionable recommendations, with cost models, once assessment has been completed.