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Multi-Cloud Data Services for PowerScale for AWS enables connecting its file storage, consumed as a service, directly to the AWS EMR cluster. The solution achieves this ability through native replication from on-premises PowerScale storage to a managed-service-provider location.
Dell Technologies has partnered with Faction Inc. to deliver a fully managed, cloud-based service for Dell storage to address various cloud use cases. Faction, Inc. is a Dell Technologies Gold cloud service provider (CSP) and Tech Connect Select partner. Faction is a multi-cloud platform-as-a-service provider and VMware partner that offers multicloud-attached storage from various co-location sites. The service is available in several locations in the United States and in Europe. In this hybrid-cloud AI solution, Faction PowerScale Cloud Control Volumes (CCVs) storage offerings are the storage layer or data lake for the AWS cloud services.