Solution Brief

Dell EMC Cloud PowerScale for Google Cloud

Google native file service powered by Dell EMC PowerScale OneFS and managed by Dell Technologies

Benefits

• Fully integrated native Google Cloud service

operated by Dell Services and backed by

enterprise SLAs

• Guaranteed and predictable pricing based on

four performance-optimized tiers including a

small all-flash tier with lower entry points and

shorter terms

• Scale-out capacity up to 33PiB effective in a

single namespace

, throughput up to

18.6GB/s per 100TiB with sub-ms latency

• Ordered and managed through Google

Cloud console

• Purchased directly on Google Marketplace

• Integrated billing and support from Google

• Easily combined with the Google Cloud

compute and analytics services

• Enterprise-class data features include multi-

protocol file access, native replication and

snapshots

Business Challenges

As unstructured data grows exponentially, organizations are

looking to migrate file-based workloads to the cloud to increase

business agility, reduce cost and simplify management. But while

file data often accounts for at least half of organization’s on-

premises data, very little file data is stored in the cloud. There

are legacy challenges that still need to be addressed to enable

organizations to realize a hybrid cloud approach for their file data

and accelerate this growth.

To help customers with their journey to public cloud, Dell

Technologies has partnered with Google to bring to market

PowerScale for Google Cloud, a fully integrated native cloud file

service for Google Cloud users powered by Dell EMC

PowerScale, the industry’s #1 scale-out NAS storage system.

Solution Overview

Google Cloud provides a broad range of compute and analytics

services for on-demand, cost-effective processing and analysis

of high-throughput, filed-based workloads. Dell Technologies

brings the Dell EMC PowerScale family of scale-out NAS

solutions, which include PowerScale nodes along with the

PowerScale OneFS operating system deployed in thousands of

on-premises locations, to the cloud. Together, PowerScale for

Google Cloud enables enterprises to run the most demanding

file-based workloads which require extreme performance and

throughput, including Artificial Intelligence and Machine

Learning, Life Sciences Genome Analysis, Media and

Entertainment and Big Data Analytics, in the cloud, taking

advantage of flexible cloud consumption models and cloud

economics.

With PowerScale for Google Cloud and Multi-Cloud Data

Services for Dell EMC PowerScale, Dell Technologies provides a

range of choices of private, multi-cloud and native cloud storage

services designed for unstructured data. These services extend

the familiar capabilities of Dell EMC PowerScale such as

performance at scale, operational efficiency, simplicity of

management and enterprise-class data services to the public

cloud.

Incredible Power

PowerScale for Google Cloud brings the game-changing performance for file data in the public cloud. Based on

the third-party performance validation, PowerScale for Google Cloud can deliver:

▪ Up to 46x higher maximum read throughput

▪ Up to 96x higher maximum write throughput

▪ Up to 500x higher maximum file system capacity

▪ Scale-out capacity up to 33PiB effective in a single namespace

▪ Throughput up to 18.6GB/s per 100TiB with sub-ms latency

Organizations can now host high-performance workloads that

traditionally have only run on-premises in Google Cloud where

they will have their familiar OneFS features while taking

advantage of Google Cloud’s elastic compute, GPU instances

and analytics services. PowerScale for Google Cloud provides

massive scale-out capacity from 25TiB to 33PiB effective in a

single namespace, performance at scale up to 18.6GB/s per

100TiB of throughput (and up to 100s of GB/s of aggregate

throughput), and sub-ms latency access to Google Cloud. Plus,

customers can use enterprise-class data features such as high

availability, multi-protocol file access and built-in security, native

replication and data protection with snapshots.

With PowerScale for Google Cloud customers can realize the advantage of hybrid cloud architectures,

using native replication between the on-premises storage and Google Cloud, allowing them to easily move data

between environments for use with Google’s vast services and tools. File data can now be replicated rapidly

between these environments and easily burst application data into the cloud without risk or having to make

changes to applications and eliminating difficult and time-consuming data migration.

Consistent Operations

User Experience

PowerScale for Google Cloud brings the native file service experience of OneFS to Google Cloud customers

without a requirement to re-platform their applications to object. The consistency in user experience is a critical

enabler for the data scientists and researchers of organizations to run their analysis workflows both on-prem and

in the cloud with ease, not requiring them to learn new tools and thereby boosting their productivity.

Simplified Operations

PowerScale for Google Cloud is an easy-to-use service with annual subscriptions and flat-rate, predictable

pricing. Customers order it from the Google Cloud Marketplace, and once provisioned they can configure and

manage their OneFS clusters directly from the Google Cloud console. Customers receive a single monthly bill and

support from Google. Cloud consumption model provides on-demand dedicated capacity, choice of annual

subscriptions and optimized performance tiers to service the entire range of needs - from the basic file shares up

to the most demanding workload requirements.

The storage tiers are tailored to a variety of use cases with Tier 1 optimized for extreme performance and

throughput for commercial HPC, Tier 2 for high performance required by predictive analytics, Tier 3 for large file

formats of media workloads and Tier 4 for maintaining access to files for fast backup and recovery. Our new,

powerful Tier 1 Agile expands the current Tier 1 with all-flash configurations designed for agility and extreme

performance. It offers organizations a lower entry point into the service with reduced capacities, smaller

increments, and shorter commitment terms, making it easy to try out new features or test the offer.

PowerScale for Google Cloud is managed and operated by Dell Technologies experts who provide complete

lifecycle management of the environment. It is monitored and maintained 24x7 to provide a complete hands-off

operation which is backed by enterprise SLAs and availability.