Keeping file storage performing at peak levels can be a daunting task. Numerous factors contribute to performance monitoring challenges for unstructured data including data volume and growth, as well as security and Application requirements. For example, more than 90% of the word’s data is unstructured, meaning storage administrators need to manage a tremendous amount of content with a variety of requirements. Furthermore, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) is bringing new opportunities and performance requirements for unstructured storage. To gain business insights from AI, it is crucial to keep file storage performing at peak levels. Now organizations can streamline unstructured data monitoring and unlock Application benefits with the newest release of InsightIQ, which is now available for download.

Dell PowerScale is the world’s most flexible,1 efficient2 and secure3 scale-out NAS solution and is the #1 NAS4 in the market. Dell utilized this industry leadership to innovate the next generation of file storage performance manager, InsightIQ 5.0. InsightIQ is Dell’s software specifically designed to monitor and manage performance for PowerScale storage. InsightIQ differs from CloudIQ, which provides comprehensive health status and monitoring to the broad portfolio of Dell data center infrastructure. The new InsightIQ 5.0 software expands PowerScale monitoring capabilities by increasing efficiencies that benefit your file storage performance tasks. For example, InsightIQ 5.0 includes a new user interface, automated email alerts and added security. InsightIQ 5.0 is available today for all existing and new PowerScale customers at no additional charge. These innovations are designed to simplify management, expand scale and security and automate operations for PowerScale monitoring for AI, GenAI and all other workloads.

Dell built InsightIQ 5.0 to simplify operations with proactive monitoring. The software includes a completely new user interface, a portion of which is shown below, designed to make day-to-day monitoring easier for IT administrators. The dashboard has a variety of tiles to display key information at a glance. For example, there is a status tile summarizing the number of clusters the software manages. There is also a tile that displays recent alerts. Another tile shows aggregated capacity for monitored clusters displaying the amount of storage remaining. There are also summaries of cluster performance and percentage of used capacity to rapidly gain an overview of cluster performance and identify any performance bottlenecks. These features are designed to simplify tasks and streamline file storage monitoring.