• Enterprise-ready. Future-proof. Data-first.

      ECS, the leading object-storage platform from Dell EMC, has been engineered to support both traditional and next-generation workloads alike. Deployable in a software-defined model or as a turnkey appliance, ECS boasts unmatched scalability, manageability, resilience, and economics to meet the demands of modern business.

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    OVERVIEW
    • ECS EX300 appliance

      Dell EMC ECS EX300

      Starting at 60 TB, the EX300 can both grow to exabyte-scale and lower adoption barriers 

      • Scale-out nodes
      • Front-accessible and hot-pluggable drives 
      • Identical performance characteristics with every node
      • Optional SSD for metadata cache
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    • ECS EX500 appliance

      Dell EMC ECS EX500

      The perfect blend of economy and density, the EX500 injects even greater flexibility into the ECS appliance portfolio

      • Scale-out nodes
      • Improved performance via dual, 10 core processors
      • Identical performance characteristics with every node
      • Optional SSD for metadata cache
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    • ECS EX3000 appliance

      Dell EMC ECS EX3000

      Packing an unprecedented 8.6 PB per rack, the EX3000 is the ideal high density, low cost, multipurpose object storage system

      • Single and dual node configurations
      • Drawer accessible and hot-pluggable drives
      • Standard, 12TB disk drives per node
      • Optional SSD for metadata cache
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    COMPARE
    • Products Description Use Cases Architecture Upgrade Options
      ECS EX300
      • Flexible object storage platform that lowers the starting costs of a cluster and can scale up to exabytes as needed
      • Ideal for modernizing Centera or Atmos environments and storing data generated by modern applications
      • Intel x86 servers
      • Integrated storage
      • 12 disk drives per node
      • Optional SSD for metadata cache
      • Scale out by additional nodes only
      ECS EX500
      • A versatile option for midsized enterprises with rack capacity ranging from 480TB to 4.6PB
      • Ideal for supporting modern application, deep archive, or multi-purpose use cases
      • Intel x86 servers
      • Integrated storage
      • 12 or 24 disk drives per node
      • Optional SSD for metadata cache
      • Scale out by additional nodes only
      • 12 drive capacity upgrade kit
      ECS EX3000
      • Ultra-dense object storage platform that packs up to 8.6 petabytes per rack and can grow to exabyte scale
      • Ideal for cloud-native workloads and organizations with large, long-term archival requirements
      • Intel x86 servers
      • Integrated storage
      • EX3000S: Up to 90 disk drives per node
      • EX3000D: Up to 45 disk drives per node
      • Optional SSD for metadata cache
      • 15 drive capacity upgrade kit

    • Do More with Data

      • If data is the lifeblood of the modern business, ECS is the heartbeat—providing organizations with an object-storage platform capable of supporting both traditional and modern workloads.

        ECS unlocks the potential of every business, powering critical use cases such as line-of-business applications, websites, mobile apps, IoT data stores, analytics initiatives, long-term archives, and much more. An enterprise-ready platform, ECS enables organizations to simplify object storage management, visualize information in new ways, and empower the business to do more with data, all at a lower total-cost-of-ownership.

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        Streamline object storage: Meet any capacity requirements, protect data, and manage ECS with ease using built-in, enterprise capabilities

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        Gain new insights: Get a deeper look into system health and locate data faster than ever before

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        Build next-gen solutions: From modern app development to deep archives, leverage the versatility and scale of ECS to power a data-driven future

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    Customer Stories
    • ECS improves healthcare

      CUSTOMER STORY: PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

      Accelerating time-to-care

      ECS object storage helps Phoenix Children’s Hospital extract terabytes of data in less than an hour.

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    • ECS lowers TCO

      Customer Story: CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY

      Lowering total-cost-of-ownership

      ECS helps boost efficiency 75%, cut risk, and reduce capital costs 30% by replacing storage and backup silos with a seamless Dell EMC platform.

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    • ECS helps development teams

      Customer Story: VERIZON LABS

      Focusing on the application

      ECS enables Verizon Labs engineers to focus on application development without worrying about data management.

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    Analyst Validation
    • Economic Analysis: On-premises Object Storage

      Economic Analysis: On-premises Object Storage

      See how ESG analysts evaluate the economic benefits of on-premises object storage versus the public cloud.

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    • Forrester TEI: ECS Solution

      Forrester TEI: ECS Solution

      This study provides readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of ECS on their organizations.

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    Essential Reading
    • ECS Solution Overview

      ECS Solution Overview

      This solution overview articulates the value of ECS and describes its main use cases.

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    • ECS: Overview and Architecture

      ECS: Overview and Architecture

      This whitepaper provides an in-depth architecture overview of ECS, the Dell EMC software-defined cloud-scale object storage platform.

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    • ECS: Best Practices

      ECS: Best Practices

      This whitepaper provides general best practices for the deployment, configuration, and use of ECS.

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    • ECS: High Availability Design

      ECS: High Availability Design

      This whitepaper describes the architectural details about how the ECS platform provides enterprise availability.

    • ECS with PCF

      ECS with PCF

      This document is a reference guide for configuring Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) with ECS.

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    • ECS with Data Domain Cloud Tier

      ECS with Data Domain Cloud Tier

      This document describes how the Data Domain Cloud Tier technology integrates with ECS to provide a massively scalable architecture.

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