DISKOVER SOLUTIONS FOR DELL TECHNOLOGIES
Unleash the full potential of your Dell platform.
Diskover is proud to partner with Dell Technologies to deliver powerful, scalable data solutions that help organizations gain clarity, control, and efficiency across their storage environments. Through tight integration with Dell infrastructure and a shared focus on performance and visibility, Diskover empowers teams to analyze, manage, and automate data at scale through agentic workflows.
SEAMLESS DISKOVER INTEGRATIONS ACROSS DELL INFRASTRUCTURE
Visibility. Control. Action.
Diskover supercharges Dell infrastructure by transforming unstructured data into curated, AI-ready datasets. Acting as your super-connector, Diskover unifies data across Dell platforms, your broader data estate, and the Dell Data Lakehouse—while integrating SmartSync for intelligent data movement—delivering visibility, automation, analytics, and innovation at scale, from edge to core to cloud.
Solution Brief
Diskover Integrations with Dell Technologies: Unleash the full potential of your Dell platform.
White Paper.
Dell Data Lakehouse and Diskover: Creating AI Datasets from Unstructured Data.
DISKOVER + DELL POWERSCALE = BUSINESS METADATA VISIBILITY AND USABILITY
Put your untapped PowerScale metadata to work.
What once took days or weeks with DataIQ now takes just hours with Diskover.
Diskover, combined with Dell SmartPools, creates a powerful synergy that transforms data management into a seamless and intuitive experience. By quickly indexing extensive metadata across various storage tiers and giving instant global results, Diskover offers a level of visibility and control that is unsurpassed.
Diskover’s deep integration with Dell SmartPools allows users to instantly locate, analyze, and categorize vast amounts of data, turning what was once a chaotic and overwhelming task into a streamlined process. The rich metadata indexing reveals insights that were previously hidden, enabling businesses to optimize their storage, reduce costs, and make data-driven decisions with confidence and ease. Together, Diskover and Dell SmartPools redefine data management, making it not just manageable but a strategic asset.
DISKOVER + DELL DATA LAKEHOUSE = ORGANIZED AND CONTEXTUALIZED METADATA
Diskover your fast track to the Dell Data Lakehouse.
Bridging the gap between unstructured data and AI/BI pipelines.
Diskover and Dell Data Lakehouse transforms unstructured data into AI/BI-driven insights. From streamlined data indexing to enhanced metadata contextualization, this powerful combination optimizes data management, enabling faster decisions and smarter operations.
The integration of Diskover and Dell Data Lakehouse (DDLH) is designed to optimize metadata management, enabling enhanced organization, contextualization, and usability of unstructured data across AI and BI workflows. This architecture streamlines the flow of metadata for improved accessibility and scalability, ensuring seamless support for advanced analytics and decision-making.
While both solutions are fundamentally the same, they differ in their approach.
Solution 1 | Positions Diskover as the metadata source, where DDLH actively pulls the metadata inventory files for processing.
Solution 2 | Utilizes DDLH as the destination, with Diskover pushing metadata inventory files as partitioned Parquet files and registering the corresponding schema with DDLH.
DISKOVER + DELL AI FACTORY = FASTER PIPELINES AND SMARTER INSIGHTS
Diskover amplifies the Dell AI Factory.
Creating high-value AI/BI datasets from unstructured data, turning hidden data into business value.
Together with Dell’s AI Data Platform, Diskover enables partners to quickly locate, curate, and route unstructured data into AI-ready pipelines. By integrating with Dell infrastructure, Diskover helps organizations cut costs, accelerate insights, and unlock new revenue opportunities at scale.
Super-CONNECTOR
Helps organizations pinpoint their most valuable unstructured data across legacy storage, enabling them to find, analyze, and enrich it for smart decision-making and advanced Al/BI applications.
AI Factory
An open, flexible, and secure architecture that places, processes, and protects enterprise-scale data-combining PowerScale, ObjectScale, and Dell Data Lakehouse to support every phase of Al infrastructure.
Streamline your AI journey.
Diskover makes data Al-ready, Dell makes it Al-scalable.
DISKOVER + DELL SMARTSYNC = SMARTER DATA IN MOTION
Seamless data movement with Diskover’s SmartSync integration.
Diskover and Dell SmartSync work hand-in-hand to orchestrate seamless, intelligent data movement—across your Dell storage ecosystem and beyond.
Leverage Diskover’s deep metadata insights to identify high-value or low-use data, then trigger targeted actions—replicate, tier, or relocate—via SmartSync. Automate your data lifecycle with agentic workflows, reduce storage costs, and streamline AI/BI-readiness without manual guesswork.
DISKOVER + DELL SMARTPOOLS = STORAGE OPTIMIZATION
Your data exactly where and when you need it.
Diskover’s powerful metadata harvesting capabilities transform Dell PowerScale into an intelligent data management engine—unlocking full visibility and control across the data lifecycle. By extracting and enriching PowerScale metadata, Diskover enables granular insights into data usage, value, and activity, helping organizations automate lifecycle decisions through policy-driven, agentic workflows.
Working in tandem with Dell SmartPools, Diskover ensures data is always in the right place at the right time and cost—automatically promoting high-value data to performance tiers and demoting less critical files to lower-cost storage. This integration drives storage optimization not only across Dell infrastructure, but throughout your entire data estate, reducing overhead, improving performance, and turning metadata intelligence into measurable business value.
DISKOVER + DELL SYNCIQ INTEGRATION = DATA PROTECTION
Your data’s safety net—searchable and restorable snapshots.
When combined with Dell SyncIQ, Diskover takes data protection to the next level by offering searchable and restorable snapshots that provide both security and accessibility. Diskover’s advanced indexing capabilities make it easy to search through snapshots, allowing users to quickly locate and recover specific files or datasets with precision.
This powerful combination ensures that data is not only protected through SyncIQ’s robust replication and snapshot features but is also easily searchable and restorable, minimizing downtime and data loss. By integrating Diskover with Dell SyncIQ, businesses can confidently protect their data while maintaining the agility to recover and restore exactly what they need, when they need it—transforming data protection into a seamless and efficient process.
BENEFITS OF THE DISKOVER AND DELL SYNERGY
Why your SmartPools need Diskover.
In the end, it all comes down to cost, doesn’t it? Diskover helps you save both immediately and significantly over time.
Diskover is a versatile tool, not focused on capacity or storage type, but on unstructured data, which is the main challenge customers face. Having worked extensively with Dell DataIQ after the acquisition of ClarityNow, there were challenges using the product in ubiquitous environments.
Diskover makes containerized data globally searchable in turn allowing for easy actionable decisions, for example, where data should be and when, how to report on data, how to make data owners accountable, etc. Understanding where data lives, the cost of data placement, and the analytics associated with these decisions ultimately results in the cost savings that Diskover enables. The Elasticsearch backend of Diskover allows customers to go beyond their data and actually understand their data from a pipeline perspective.
With an extensive backend plugin architecture, once data is understood and tagged, creating actions on that data becomes easy. An extensive plugin library already exists and is being added to on a regular basis. In addition, existing facility plugins can be ported to be used with Diskover. This allows the tool to be an integrated part of a facility’s data management toolset. This includes tie-into tools like facility scheduling systems, data movers, and asset management tools.
Billy Russell // CEO
DELL DATAIQ MIGRATION TO DISKOVER
Platforms comparison.
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Core features.
| FEATURE |  |
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| 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 users filesystem permissions | ⚠️ Can only filter parts of the namespace to a group level | 🚫 | ✅ |
| Extra metadata indexing adding business context to search, analytics, workflows, an 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 |
Search.
| FEATURE | |
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| 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 |
Analytics.
| FEATURE | |
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| 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 | 🚫 | 🚫 | ✅ |
Workflows.
| FEATURE | |
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| 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) |
Actions.
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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.) |