Software-defined object storage designed for both traditional and next-generation workloads with unmatched scalability, flexibility and resiliency.
Dell EMC achieves the highest overall position for its ability to execute in Distributed File Systems and Object Storage Magic Quadrant.*
ECS appliance object storage is part of our Future-Proof Storage Loyalty program, giving you additional peace of mind with guaranteed satisfaction and investment protection for future technology changes.
Deploy ECS on your terms—as a turnkey storage appliance, as a software-only solution designed to run on industry-standard hardware, through public cloud solutions via Virtustream, or as a Dell EMC hosted ECS-as-a-Service.
Bring your cloud home with fully configured, tested and supported ECS Appliance that can scale to Exabyte across multiple sites.
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Enjoy all the cloud storage benefits while maintaining on-premise control with ECS Dedicated Cloud (ECS DC) Service.
ECS brings all the benefits of a public cloud to your own datacenter while keeping your cost under control. It can be used for a wide variety of workloads such as deep archive, geo protection of Hadoop, Internet of Things and many more.
Geo-Protected Archive
With multi-protocol support including HDFS for in-place Hadoop analytics, ECS allows you to manage and interact with all your archive data in any file format.
Big Data Analytics
With in-place analytics and multi-protocol support, ECS provides an ideal platform for data lake that eliminates storage silos and supports your Hadoop and modern apps with cloud-scale economics.
Internet of Things
A single shared global repository for all Internet of Things (IoT) data, ECS will help you store, analyze and transform your business with valuable insights from sensor and device data.
Object Storage
With features such as instant metadata search, multi-protocol access and geo-accessible capabilities, you can bridge the gap from traditional storage to the next-generation apps now.
Storage For Next-Gen Apps
Enjoy quick and easy access to storage for the next-gen apps with ECS, designed for mobile, cloud, big data, and social applications with superior agility and economics.
Service Providers
Take your business to the next level by storing and transforming your customer data to new insights and opportunities with ECS’s one-storage architecture.
Healthcare and Life Sciences
ECS provides an enterprise-class data management solution that can consolidate unstructured biomedical data ranging from medical imaging to genomics in a unified enterprise-wide repository.
Media and Entertainment
ECS simplifies the availability of digital media with a multi-site, active-active architecture that permits efficient global collaboration and a highly durable media archival repository.
Surveillance
ECS provides a single shared object storage platform for evidence from various devices, enabling better life cycle management and global team collaboration while adhering to compliance requirements.
Dell EMC’s Unstructured Data Storage portfolio accelerates artificial intelligence (AI) with faster cycles of learning, higher model accuracy and improved GPU utilization.
ECS's new Heads Up Display has Integrated management dashboard across off and on premise storage with key storage engine and geo replication metrics including monitoring and diagnostics available through the REST API and the ECS user interface – as well as drill down graphics, trend lines charts, and overall system-level dashboard.
*Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, Julia Palmer, Arun Chandrasekaran, Raj Bala, 20 October 2016.
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