ell Technologies commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying PowerScale (formerly known as Isilon). The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of a PowerScale investment on their organizations.

Forrester’s interviews with four Dell EMC PowerScale customers found cost savings and benefits in the following categories: storage workload optimization savings, storage management efficiencies, data centre space savings, and revenue-generating business value-added. Interviewed customers noted that in addition to scalability and cost-effectiveness over their previous systems, the performance and resiliency of their PowerScale clusters help their organizations support fast and unpredictable business growth. Customers reported the ability to run a wide variety of workloads on the same data set within a single platform.