DISKOVER SOLUTIONS FOR DELL TECHNOLOGIES

Activate the full potential of your Dell platform.

Diskover partners with Dell Technologies to deliver data management solutions that help organizations understand, manage, and automate their data at scale. By adding intelligence and visibility across Dell storage environments, Diskover makes it easier to find what matters, reduce waste, and keep data ready for analytics and AI.

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PowerScale, SmartPools & Quota Metadata Enrichment

Dell Data Lakehouse

Dell AI Factory

SmartSync
Data Movement

Intelligent
Tiering

Restorable Snapshots

Why your Dell ecosystem needs Diskover.

Whether it’s SmartPools, CloudPools, or your Dell Data Lakehouse, one thing’s certain—you can’t optimize what you can’t see. Diskover delivers the clarity, automation, and control to make every storage decision count.

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Global visibility.
See all your data across Dell platforms in one place. Diskover keeps your entire Dell estate searchable, synchronized, and easy to manage—from PowerScale to the Data Lakehouse.
Drive measurable savings.
Reduce storage costs with confidence. Diskover identifies unused, duplicate, and cold data and automates tiering and cleanup to improve efficiency and ROI.
Automate your data estate.
Replace manual work with smart automation. Diskover applies business-driven policies to manage data lifecycle actions safely, transparently, and at enterprise scale.
Elevate your Data Lakehouse.
Feed analytics and AI with better data. Diskover curates clean, contextual datasets from unstructured files to accelerate insights and model training.
Stop guesstimating.
Make decisions based on facts, not assumptions. Diskover indexes file and business metadata across Dell platforms to give you clear, reliable insight into your data.
Gain intelligence, not just data.
Understand how your data is used in real time. Diskover shows where data lives, how it moves, what it costs, and why it matters—clearly, instantly, and in a single view.
Expand with confidence.
Plan storage growth without risk or guesswork. Diskover helps you decide what to tier, move, or retain as you scale across hybrid and multi-cloud Dell environments with confidence.
AI-Ready by design.
Prepare data for AI automatically. Diskover aligns metadata, storage, and workflows so high-value datasets are always ready for analytics, lakehouses, and AI Factory use.

Visibility. Control. Action.

Learn how Diskover integrates with Dell technologies to transform unstructured data into curated, AI-ready datasets. This solution brief highlights how Diskover + Dell deliver visibility, automation, and cost optimization across PowerScale, ECS, SmartPools, SmartSync, Dell Data Lakehouse, and Dell AI Factory—accelerating analytics and AI readiness at scale.

Solution Brief

This white paper highlights how Dell Data Lakehouse and Diskover integrate to convert unstructured data into contextual, actionable datasets. By combining Diskover's metadata inventory capabilities with Dell Data Lakehouse's analytics power, the solution streamlines data indexing and contextualization.

Dell Data Lakehouse and Diskover: Creating AI Datasets from Unstructured Data.

This Dell white paper, developed in collaboration with CloudSoda, explores data movement as a service (DMaaS) across PowerScale file storage and ECS object storage environments. It details how CloudSoda automates, accelerates, and secures data orchestration for distributed media workflows—enabling studios and enterprises to move, sync, and manage data efficiently across hybrid storage ecosystems with full visibility and control.

PowerScale and ECS: Data Orchestration with CloudSoda

Diskover + Dell PowerScale, SmartPools, and Quota

Turn untapped metadata into a strategic asset.

Diskover unlocks the full value of your Dell metadata by rapidly indexing and enriching data across PowerScale, SmartPools, and Quota. With instant, global visibility across storage tiers, teams gain clear insight into how data is used, owned, and growing—without manual effort or guesswork.

Deep integration with Dell PowerScale, SmartPools, and Quota helps teams instantly locate, analyze, and categorize massive datasets at scale. By combining file, storage-tier, and quota context, Diskover reveals hidden patterns, reduces waste, and enables confident, data-driven decisions—turning Dell storage into a strategic asset, not just infrastructure.

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Diskover Dell PowerScale Indexer Architecture Diagram

Diskover + Dell Data Lakehouse

Contextualized metadata—the key to modern data lakehouses.

Diskover accelerates the Dell Data Lakehouse by organizing and contextualizing unstructured metadata at scale. It bridges the gap between raw file data and AI/BI pipelines—making unstructured data easier to find, understand, and use for analytics and decision-making.

By organizing and contextualizing metadata before data reaches the lakehouse, this approach simplifies data management and accelerates access to insights—helping teams move faster, operate smarter, and scale with confidence.

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Diskover Super-Connector integration with Dell Data Lakehouse bridges the gap between unstructured data and curated datasets—powering analytics and AI pipelines.

Diskover + Dell AI Factory

Amplify AI results with high-value data—not more data.

Together with Dell’s AI Data Platform, Diskover helps teams quickly find, curate, and move unstructured data into AI-ready pipelines. By integrating directly with Dell infrastructure, Diskover reduces costs, speeds up insights, and helps organizations turn more data into real business value.

Super-CONNECTOR

Find, enrich, and curate high-value unstructured data—ready for analytics and AI/BI pipelines.

Dell Technologies, a technological partner of Diskover Data

AI Factory

A secure AI platform that scales compute, storage, and data—powering workloads from ingestion to production.

Accelerate your AI outcomes.

Diskover delivers curated, high-value data that’s AI-ready; Dell makes it AI-scalable.

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Diskover + Dell SmartSync

Move the right data at the right time.

Diskover works with Dell SmartSync to move data intelligently across your Dell storage environment. By understanding how data is used, Diskover helps you decide what to move, where to move it, and when—automating replication, tiering, and relocation without manual effort. Users can also initiate SmartSync jobs directly from Diskover when needed.

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Diskover integration with Dell SmartSync for simplified data movement on demand or by policy.

Diskover + Dell Intelligent Tiering

Your data at the right place, time, and cost.

Diskover turns Dell storage metadata into actionable intelligence—so teams can see how data is used, where it lives, and what it’s worth. By enriching metadata across the environment, Diskover helps organizations understand data value and activity without manual analysis or guesswork.

Working alongside Dell SmartPools and Quota, Diskover enables automated lifecycle decisions based on real usage signals. High-value data stays on the right performance tier, lower-value data shifts to lower-cost storage, and usage limits are applied with confidence—optimizing cost, performance, and capacity across the data estate.

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Diskover Dell PowerScale metadata catalog and key value pairing via policy-driven lifecycle management through agentic workflows.

Diskover + Dell SyncIQ

Search. Restore. Recover. A safety net for your data.

With Diskover and Dell SyncIQ, snapshots become more than static copies. Snapshots are searchable by metadata, easy to restore, and ready when you need them—turning data protection into a practical, everyday tool.

Combined with SyncIQ replication and snapshot capabilities, Diskover adds visibility and intelligence to recovery. Find exactly what you need, restore it fast, reduce downtime and data loss, and recover with confidence.

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Diskover Dell SyncIQ Data Protection via searchable and restorable snapshots

Dell DataIQ and Diskover—platforms comparison.

Core features.

FEATURE
FREE SUBSCRIPTION
Supported storage repositories NFS, SMB, CIFS, S3 NFS, SMB, CIFS, local mounts, StorNext, FTP, native API scanners NFS, SMB, CIFS, local mounts, S3, Azure, Dropbox, StorNext, Spectra BlackPearl, Atempo Miria, offline media devices, FTP, native API scanners
Scale-out architecture ✅  Runs on a single machine ✅  Single node to be deployed on a single host via an OVA or docker container ✅  Highly distributed and scale-out architecture, also allows for an entire stack to be deployed on a single host via an OVA or docker container
Software supported on Linux, Windows, and Mac ⚠️  Linux only ✅ ✅
Single-pane view accessible from any web browser ✅ ⚠️  View is limited to one index at a time ✅
Filtered view based on the user’s filesystem permissions ⚠️  Can only filter parts of the namespace to a group level 🚫 ✅
Extra metadata indexing adding business context to search, analytics, workflows, and actions ✅  Media info, ShotGrid 🚫 ✅  Dell PowerScale, Media info, ShotGrid, Xytech, BAM info, Life Science Grant info, file hash values, Unix permissions, Azure Blobs, Spectra BlackPearl, Atempo Miria, and more
Hash values indexing ✅  md5, sha256 🚫 ✅  md5, sha256, sha1, xxhash
Filesystem permissions indexing ⚠️  Limited to users and groups only ⚠️  Limited to index Unix permission bits ✅  Can index Unix permission bits, Windows ACL’s, and Azure OAuth2/OIDC SSO
Offline data devices indexing 🚫 🚫 ✅
Multiple filesystems parallel scanning ✅ ✅ ✅
Live view of directories pre-indexing 🚫 🚫 ✅
Open-source platform allowing for limitless expansion 🚫 ✅ ✅
Supports plugins architecture ✅ ✅ ✅
Free community version ⚠️  For Isilon only ✅ This version! ✅
Industry specific editions ⚠️  A Media plugin and a Life Science plugin but they were never fully deployed 🚫 ✅  Media and Life Science editions with more in the works
Support for all stakeholders from system administrators to non-technical end users ⚠️  Limited to technical users ✅  For all stakeholders through the Diskover Slack Community Forum and multiple online resources including rich documentation ✅  For all stakeholders through the Diskover Slack Community Forum, multiple online resources, email and phone support, plus remote end user training

Global visibility.

FEATURE
FREE SUBSCRIPTION
Federated global search 🚫  Search across multiple DataIQ servers not supported 🚫 One index at a time ✅  Across multiple clusters, repositories, and locations
Granular manual searches 🚫  Very limited to file names and directory names only ✅  All regular metadata can be searched and combined in queries using multiple criteria ✅  All regular and extra metadata can be searched and combined in queries using multiple criteria
Built-in filters and other search tools ⚠️  Filters with limited options ✅  Filters, Quick Search, Search Within Results, all built-in tools can be combined with manual queries ✅  Filters, Quick Search, Search Within Results, all built-in tools can be combined with manual queries
Copy all or selected paths/file names ✅ ✅ ✅  Multiple options
Export of items resulting from a search or file tree drill down ✅  CSV only 🚫 ✅  CSV and JSON, exports all attributes including extra metadata
Share results via a URL link 🚫 🚫 ✅  Fast and easy way to share results with co-workers

Data intelligence.

FEATURE
FREE SUBSCRIPTION
Multiple integrated analytics ⚠️  Limited ⚠️  Limited to dashboard and charts on file search page ✅  Multiple standard and customizable analytics with filters and links to detailed results
Ad hoc queries and reporting 🚫 ✅ ✅
Easy storage space visibility and analysis ✅ ✅ ✅
Storage cost analysis ✅ 🚫 ✅  Customizable down to a directory level
Active and cold data reporting ✅ ✅ ✅  Multiple standard and customizable analytics with links to results
Heatmap report with differential analysis across different points in time 🚫 🚫 ✅
REST API for reporting and data mobility ✅ 🚫 ✅  Including any reporting tool that supports standard Elasticsearch indexes as data sources and can also consume and report on Diskover created indexes, ex: Grafana, Kibana
End users can save queries for personal use 🚫 🚫 ✅

Curation & orchestration.

FEATURE
FREE SUBSCRIPTION
Integrated data curation ⚠️  Limited to user-initiated data movement 🚫 ✅  User-initiated and automated data curation via Autoclean plugin (move, delete, rename, copy)
Data movers either user-initiated or via automated scheduled workflow ⚠️  Limited to Dell storage/mover 🚫 ✅  Supports multiple data movers
Data integrity checksums including data migration ⚠️  Limited and based on same file name and file size 🚫 ✅  Extremely precise checksums using hash values (md5, xxhash, sha1, sha256)
Manual tagging ⚠️  Requires a plugin 🚫 ✅
Auto tags ✅ 🚫 ✅  Autotagging can be done via a) inline at time of index, b) as a post-index process, c) as a harvest plugin to gain workflow/schedule status (ex: move work order directories once their status is “invoiced”), and d) API-based tagging via custom plugins
Duplicates finder ⚠️  Based on same file name and file size 🚫 ✅  Extremely precise using hash values (md5, xxhash, sha1, sha256)

User-initiated actions.

FEATURE
FREE SUBSCRIPTION
User-initiated actions on data ⚠️  Limited to Dell storage data movement 🚫 ✅  Multiple Data Movers, IMF Package Validation Plugin, Find File Sequences Plugin, EDL Upload Plugin, Life Science Grant Plugin, plus seamless access to third-party platforms directly from the Diskover user interface
User-initiated access to third-party platforms 🚫 🚫 ✅  CineViewer Player, Telestream GLIM, Telestream Vantage
Robust login for user-initiated actions ✅ 🚫 ✅

Media solutions.

FEATURE
FREE SUBSCRIPTION
Maximizes efficiencies of file-based workflows for this highly fast pace industry ⚠️  A media plugin for ShotGrid was developed but was never fully deployed 🚫 ✅  Multiple media action plugins plus rich business context metadata harvesting that can be searched, analyzed, and engaged in workflows
Media file viewer ⚠️  Thumbnail only 🚫 ✅  Full playback and other functions via third-party players (CineViewer, Telestream GLIM)
Seamless access to third-party platforms saving time and reducing human errors 🚫 🚫 ✅  Telestream Vantage and GLIM, CineViewer Player
User-initiated actions on data automating processes and saving time 🚫 🚫 ✅  IMF Package Validator, EDL Upload, Find File Sequences
Business context metadata indexing allowing granular searches, analytics, and efficient curation of projects and their entire life-cycle ⚠️  Limited to media info 🚫 ✅  Media info, Xytech, ShotGrid

Life science solutions.

FEATURE
FREE SUBSCRIPTION
Maximizes efficiencies of file-based workflows for this data-critical industry (empirical and preservation) ⚠️  A life science plugin for Petagene was developed but was never fully deployed 🚫 ✅  BAM and Grant plugins adding rich business context metadata that can be searched, analyzed, and engaged in workflows
Tools assisting research institutes managing their grants, from application to post-funding 🚫 🚫 ✅  Grant Plugin assists in managing grants/members/storage costs in order to fulfill NIH requirements for DMS policy
Tools to assist in the curation of genome sequence file transformation 🚫 🚫 ✅  BAM Plugin
Business context metadata allowing granular searches, analytics, and efficient curation of projects and their entire life-cycle 🚫 🚫 ✅  Grant info (grant number, group ID, etc.) and genome sequence files (BAM id, value, key, etc.)
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