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The Dell EMC PowerFlex family of products is powered by PowerFlex software-defined storage – a scale-out block storage service. PowerFlex enables organizations to harness the power of software so they can embrace change while achieving consistent and predictable outcomes.
PowerFlex is designed to deliver flexibility, elasticity, and simplicity with predictable performance and resiliency at scale by combining compute and high-performance storage resources in a managed unified fabric. PowerFlex can combine diverse storage resources to create virtual pools of block storage with varying performance and data services options. PowerFlex provides enterprise-grade data protection, multi-tenant capabilities, and enterprise features, such as inline compression, encryption, QoS, thin provisioning, snapshots, and native asynchronous replication.