 Hey, welcome to this CUBE conversation with Dell Technologies. I'm Lisa Martin. I've got Kaushik Ghost here with me. He's back on theCUBE, Director of Product Management for Unified NAS Solutions at Dell Technologies. Kaushik, great to see you again. Yes, hi, great to be here again. We're going to be talking about the major announcement that Dell Technologies just made with their scale out file storage system that is Dell EMC power scale. We're going to unpack the recent announcement, new features, capabilities, all that good stuff. Kaushik, let's go ahead and start. Just give us that high level view of Dell EMC power scale. Yes, absolutely. So power scale is a high performance scale out file storage solution. It's the successor to the Isilon family, which as you guys know, I mean, it's one of the leading file solutions in the market today. PowerScale 1FS, which is the file system that runs on power scale. And also the Isilon family offers exceptional simplicity, flexibility and performance, which is what Isilon and PowerScale is known for. I mean, if you look at Gartner's Magic Order 1FS has been listed as the leader in the distributed and object file system. So that basically is now power scale. We launched our first power scale, all flash products last year. And then this year with this launch, we are sort of completing that portfolio with new hybrid and archive platforms. Excellent, and we're going to get into that as well. Let's go ahead and start unpacking this announcement. Walk me through some of the key things that are new and announced in this recent announcement. Yeah, Sam, I mean though, we just launched the hybrid and archive platforms on as part of the PowerScale family. There are two archive platforms and two hybrid platforms that we launched and they offer better CPU performance, cash and all that stuff. But we don't want to go into the speeds and feeds. What I really want to address is the software capabilities that this PowerScale brings for starters. It now includes inline data compression, inline data reduction, it's all built into it. We support now new ransomware protection capabilities with this product. There's a new data protection capability that we now support with our PowerProtect data manager and then all the goodness of ISLON 1FS and PowerScale 1FS that sort of continues with this new. I imagine since the launch last year, Karshvik, a lot of customer conversations that helped to drive this launch and the complete transition and the innovation of what we now see as PowerScale. Yeah, I mean, there have been some great conversations. People have been really waiting for this product offering because now they can basically combine those flash platforms that we launched last year with these hybrid platforms and can offer a really solution that not only gives you that performance, but also the cost and savings and the value that only our PowerScale and ISLON can give you. Karshvik, give me a good overview of some of those key capabilities that the existing ISLON customers and the prospective new customers of PowerScale are going to be able to take advantage of. Yes, so some of the new capabilities that is in line efficiency, as I mentioned earlier, that's now built into the product. We have in line efficiency today on our all flash platforms. So now introducing it with these hybrid and archive nodes, what that means is that when you set up a mixed cluster with all flash and hybrid, when you tear the data down from the flash to the hybrid, the data does not have to be rehydrated. They stay compressed, they stay duplicated, and so on and so forth. So that's one big advantage that you get. Second, these PowerScale, hybrid and archive platforms were built to ground up with our own custom hardware, unlike the flash platforms with the leverage power and servers, for these ones, we use our custom hardware. And the reason for that is because for those archive and storage, the cold storage, we want that density. We can store up to 500 terabytes of usable capacity, effective usable capacity in these archive nodes in a single one you recommend. And then of course, from a software perspective, we talked about ransomware protection. So we have new capability with ransomware protection, and then there's this new capability that we just launched with regard to backups, more efficient, more faster backups with our PowerProtect family of general products. Excellent, I want to dig into the ransomware and data protection in a minute, but I want to get a sense of the overall theme of the launch. You talked about this being the completion of that tech refresh, some of the new capabilities and enhancements that customers are going to be able to take advantage of. But give me that higher level kind of thematic look at this news. Yeah, so the big theme of this is basically finishing that PowerSkill family that we started last year, right? So we started with the launching the whole flash, now with this hybrid and archive, now we have the full family done. All products now support inline efficiency, so you can move the data around, you get the same, data doesn't get rehydrated. You can make it part of a single cluster and you get all the performance benefits, the scalability benefits of 1FS and new data management capabilities. So all of that that we started, all of that goodness that we started with PowerSkill all flash, we sort of continued now with this platform. Got it. And I know you guys did your own internal study and I'd like you to share some of the results with the audience. You guys compared PowerSkill to competitors in traditional NAS, in flash only NAS, in mixed NAS, SAN and software only NAS. Give us a snapshot into what some of those results were for PowerSkill. Yeah, I mean, the big takeaway out here is that when it comes to PowerSkill, there we don't have a competitor when it comes to scalability, right? The fact that you can now put on petabytes of capacity under single namespace, a single file system and also give you that performance, there is none today, right? And there may be some which can do those also but then they don't have the enterprise capabilities like replication and the rich enterprise capabilities that OneFS has. So performance, scale, capabilities and all with the simplicity of OneFS. And that's basically what the unique thing about PowerSkill is. Performance, scale and simplicity, three things that I'm sure enterprises, small-media businesses and any industry appreciate. You talked about what's new in terms of the hybrid nodes and the archive nodes. Can you help us understand what workloads those nodes are best targeted for? Absolutely, so hybrid and archive, what we have realized is that not every data can be compressed or new, right? So it's not, we would love customers to use our all flash products. They get the deduplication, they get the compression, then it lowers the cost and clearly then you get the performance as in the cost but there are workloads like media and entertainment with your surveillance where you will not be able to compress or deduble data. In that case, rather than paying for a very expensive flash you could put those data sets in our lower cost archive platforms as an example. And if you have situations where look, I need some performance but there is a lot of old data then you can actually mix and match it also. So you can have those flash platforms giving you that performance and then you have our archive platforms which is basically giving you the lowest cost storage for that data that is not so frequently being accessed. And there's the flexibility there. So how can, this is the tech refresh, she said this has been completed now, power scale from Isilon. How can existing Isilon customers take advantage? What are their next steps to be able to take advantage of the newer capabilities and technologies? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, one thing we power scale has it that's very different from others is that power scale has this mantra called the no node left behind. So if you are an existing Isilon customer, you can basically add these power scale nodes to your existing Isilon cluster without creating any downtime. Power scale will automatically redistribute, rebalance your workloads across these new nodes and you sort of keep on expanding your cluster and when you feel like it, you can take out the older nodes at the time of your choosing, right? So that's a huge benefit that we get. So in fact, in some customer environments, their data has been there for almost 10 to 12 years now because they've never had to do a forklift update. So when that sort of continues with this family, if you learn to learn more about it, I would encourage going to Dell Technologies slash Power Scale or contact Dell Technologies Rep. Let's kind of wrap up things here with talking about digging to ransomware. We've seen ransomware become a household word, the colonial pipeline, the meatpacking organization that was attacked earlier this summer we know that a lot of data show that there's a one ransomware attack happens every 11 seconds. And of course, we only hear about the really big attacks. I've had the opportunity to talk to a lot of cybersecurity leaders lately and they're showing that ransomware is up at least 10X in the last year with this massive pivot to work from home, now work from anywhere. Talk to me about some of the focus that Dell has put in Power Scale now with respect to your ransomware protection and recovery. Yeah, so for ransomware protect, we have two things that we are doing. So one is this concept of detection. So when an attack is happening, we want to be able to detect quickly that an attack is happening and take some corrective measures, right? And so we have this product called Superna eyeglass which is exclusively built for Power Scale. And using this product, we use AIs to basically to figure out that if an attack is happening, we detect it and based on that, based on policies, we can then either if it's happening with only one user, we can sort of prevent, sort of lock it down that particular user profile or take other corrective actions that you may set up. So that's one aspect of it which is about the detection of it and taking some quick steps. Then there's a second aspect of it which is all about recovery, right? So we do have replications event. If the customer chooses, we can have replications set up from your Power Scale production cluster to another cluster and in that replication, we can introduce an air gap so that anything bad thing is happening here does not get replicated to that remote and wind. So those are the two ways, one detecting and second basically protecting it and not only just protecting it but ensuring that air gap capabilities there as well so that the ransomware is not replicated there as well. Absolutely critical given some of the things that you and I mentioned a few minutes ago in terms of the explosion of ransomware which hopefully in our remote work hybrid environment as more technologies like this come out from Dell Technologies and its partners will start to see this ransomware numbers go down. Last thing I want you to just restate. You mentioned a URL where folks can go to learn more information. Now you've got several different links to point folks to. Can you go ahead and remind us what those are again? Yes, absolutely. I mean the easiest URL to go to is Dell Technologies slash Power Scale. I mean, if that's the one URL that I'd like you to remember once you go there, there'll be videos, articles, blogs and you can look to your watch content whatever you want from there. Excellent, Kashik. Thank you for joining me today, talking to me about what's new with Power Scale. Congratulations on the completion of the refresh. A lot of new capabilities and technologies that your customers existing Isilon and future perspective Power Scale customers are going to be able to take advantage of. Look forward to hearing in the next few months and customer success stories. Thanks for your time. Thank you. For Kashik Ghosh, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching a CUBE conversation.