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Unstructured data collections generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), IoT, scientific, engineering, media, and surveillance are growing exponentially, stressing traditional storage architectures and IT budgets. Versity and Dell are here to help by providing a simple, powerful, and cost-efficient tool to manage and preserve large scale data collections.
Dell Technologies and Versity have partnered to provide turnkey data management solutions tailored to the growing need for petabyte and exabyte scale cold storage systems. This Dell OEM engineered solution brings together Dell’s world-class server and storage offerings with Versity’s next-generation mass storage platform, Scale Out Archive Manager (ScoutAM). ScoutAM is the first scalable, modular, economically efficient software defined mass storage solution to address the need for a simple but powerful tool to manage and preserve petabyte to exabyte scale collections of unstructured data.
This turnkey solution, designed by Dell and Versity, is a modular, fully integrated system that provides users with a solution that is easy to deploy and operate. Built with Dell's validated and tested hardware, integrated with Versity’s ScoutAM software, the solution is tailored to the individual customer's performance and capacity needs and can be expanded as requirements change. Additionally, this streamlined solution simplifies the purchasing process, allowing customers to procure both the software platform and hardware from Dell Technologies or any Dell Authorized reseller across the globe, with a variety of delivery, installation, and support models available.
This whitepaper describes the OEM engineered solution and Versity’s ScoutAM mass storge software platform, including the features and benefits derived from the open source ScoutFS filesystem and the open source Versity Gateway, both of which are supported components within the ScoutAM solution.