Dell Technologies offers a choice of object-based storage products, all of which are scalable and cost-effective for high volumes of unstructured data for AI workloads.

Dell ECS

ECS enterprise object storage combines the simplicity of S3 with extreme performance at scale for modern workloads such as AI, machine learning, and real-time analytics applications. ECS EXF900 offers all-flash, NVMe performance with capacity that scales up to 5.898 PB per rack—as well as 21 times faster performance* than the previous generation. Using ECS to fuel GPU servers with throughput-optimized storage rapidly exposes training algorithms and applications to more data than ever before. 

*Based on Dell Technologies internal analysis comparing the max bandwidth of the ECS EXF900 (511 MB/s) to the maximum bandwidth of the ECS EX300 (24 MB/s) for 10 KB writes, November 2020. Actual performance will vary.

Dell ObjectScale

ObjectScale is software-defined object storage that delivers performance at scale to support AI workloads. It delivers datasets at high transfer rates to the most demanding CPU and GPU servers, exposing AI training algorithms to more data without introducing the complexity of HPC storage. This storage includes fast stable support for objects as large as 30 TB. Clusters can be scaled out easily to enhance performance and capacity linearly. With the ability to deploy on NVMe-based, all-flash drives, storage performance is no longer a bottleneck. Additionally, object tagging provides inference models with richer datasets from which to make smarter predictions.