2017 Brand Leader Survey Results

In each of these independent, non-sponsored surveys, global IT Pros voted for Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support, and Innovation leaders from a randomized field of provided vendors (and the opportunity to write in an answer choice).

Flash Storage & NVMe – June, 2017

Voted by IT Pros
Mini Report
Press Release

All Flash FC Array	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Pure Storage
All Flash iSCSI Array	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC
All Flash NAS Array	NetApp	Dell EMC	NetApp	NetApp	NetApp	NetApp
All Flash NVMeoF Storage	Micron	Micron	Micron	Micron	Micron	Micron
All Flash Unified SAN/NAS Array	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC
Flash Cache Software	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Western Digital
Hybrid HDD/SSD Array	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC
NAND Flash Chips	Samsung	Samsung	Samsung	Samsung	Samsung	Samsung
NVDIMM	Micron/Crucial	Micron/Crucial	Micron/Crucial	Micron/Crucial	Micron/Crucial	Micron/Crucial
NVMeoF Network Adapters	Mellanox	Broadcom	Mellanox	Mellanox	Mellanox	Mellanox
PCIe NVMe Card - SSD	Western Digital	Intel	Western Digital	Western Digital	Intel	Western Digital
SSD	Samsung	Samsung	Samsung	Samsung	Samsung	Samsung
Contributions to End User Adoption, NVMe Technology (2013-2017)						Dell EMC
Driving the Next Wave of Flash Storage Technology Growth						NVIDIA GPUs

AI and Cloud – April, 2017

Voted by IT Pros
Mini Report
Press Release

Endpoint Protection	Symantec	Microsoft	Symantec	Symantec	Symantec	Cylance
Machine Learning-as-a-Service	IBM Watson Analytics	AmazonML	IBM Watson Analytics	AmazonML	AmazonML	Google Prediction API
Next-Gen AI-Based Endpoint Protection	Cylance	Sophos	Cylance	Sophos	Sophos	Cylance
Private & Public Cloud Backup & Archive	AWS	AWS	AWS	AWS	AWS	AWS
Private & Public Cloud Dedicated Enterprise Servers	AWS	AWS	AWS	AWS	AWS	AWS
Private & Public Cloud Enterprise Class Storage	AWS	AWS	AWS	AWS	AWS	AWS
Private & Public Cloud SSD Storage	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC
Translation-as-a-Service	Google Translate	Google Translate	Google Translate	Google Translate	Google Translate	Google Translate
Translation Software	Babylon	Babylon	Babylon	Babylon	Babylon	Babylon

Networking & Scale-Out Storage – March, 2017

Voted by IT Pros
Mini Report
Press Release

Bare Metal Switch OS	Arista - EOS	Arista - EOS	Arista - EOS	Arista - EOS	Arista - EOS	Arista - EOS
Embedded Blade Server Networking	HPE	Dell EMC	HPE	Cisco	Cisco	HPE
Enterprise Ethernet NICs	Intel	Intel	Intel	Intel	Intel	Intel
Enterprise File Sync & Share	Citrix	Google	Citrix	Citrix	Microsoft	Citrix
Ethernet Core Switch	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco
Ethernet ToR Switch	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco
Open Networking (Bare Metal) Switch	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC
Scale-Out File Storage	NetApp ONTAP	NetApp ONTAP	NetApp ONTAP	NetApp ONTAP	NetApp ONTAP	NetApp ONTAP
Scale-Out Object Storage Appliance	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC
Scale-Out Object Storage Software	Red Hat	Red Hat	IBM/Cleversafe	Red Hat	IBM/Cleversafe	Red Hat
Servers for Software-Defined Storage	Cisco UCS	Dell	Cisco UCS	Cisco UCS	Cisco UCS	Cisco UCS
WAN Optimization	Cisco	Riverbed	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco

Server and Database – February, 2017

Voted by IT Pros
Mini Report
Press Release

ARM-based Server Processors	Qualcomm Centriq	Qualcomm Centriq	Qualcomm Centriq	Qualcomm Centriq	Qualcomm Centriq	Qualcomm Centriq
Dense Low Power Microservers	HPE Moonshot	Supermicro	HPE Moonshot	HPE Moonshot	HPE Moonshot	HPE Moonshot
Enterprise Blade Servers	HPE	Dell EMC	HPE	HPE	Dell EMC	HPE
Enterprise Cluster Operating System	Microsoft	Microsoft	Microsoft	Microsoft	Microsoft	Microsoft
Enterprise Rackmount Servers	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC
Enterprise Server LOM & MLOM	Intel	Intel	Intel	Intel	Intel	Intel
Enterprise Server Operating System	Microsoft Windows	Red Hat Linux	Microsoft Windows	Red Hat Linux	Microsoft Windows	Red Hat Linux
Enterprise Server Processors	Intel Xeon	Intel Xeon	Intel Xeon	Intel Xeon	Intel Xeon	Intel Xeon
In-Memory Database	Oracle	MongoDB	Oracle	Oracle	Oracle	Oracle
Integrated System	Cisco	Dell EMC	Cisco	Cisco	Dell EMC	Cisco
NoSQL Database	MongoDB	AWS	MongoDB	MongoDB	AWS	AWS
Server GPUs	NVIDIA	NVIDIA	NVIDIA	NVIDIA	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
SQL Database	Oracle	Oracle	Oracle	Oracle	Oracle	Oracle
White Box Servers	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC

Networked Storage – January, 2017

Voted by IT Pros
Mini Report
Press Release

Converged Network Adapters	Broadcom / Emulex	Cisco	Broadcom / Emulex	Cisco	Cisco	Broadcom / Emulex
Deduplication Backup Target Appliances	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC
Enterprise HDDs	Seagate	WD	Seagate	Seagate	Seagate	Seagate
FCoE Switches	Cisco	Brocade	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco	Cisco
Fibre Channel Disk Arrays	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC
Fibre Channel HBAs	Broadcom / Emulex	Broadcom / Emulex	Broadcom / Emulex	Broadcom / Emulex	Broadcom / Emulex	Broadcom / Emulex
Fibre Channel Switches	Brocade	Brocade	Cisco	Brocade	Brocade	Brocade
iSCSI Disk Arrays	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC	Dell EMC
Mid-Range Tape Drives	Quantum	Quantum	Quantum	Quantum	Quantum	Quantum
NAS Disk Arrays	NetApp	NetApp	NetApp	NetApp	NetApp	NetApp
Tape Libraries	Quantum	Quantum	Quantum	Quantum	Quantum	Quantum
Unified SAN/NAS Disk Arrays	NetApp	NetApp	NetApp	NetApp	NetApp	NetApp