IT Brand Pulse Blog
Jul 20, 2026
EverMind Believes the AI Bottleneck is Memory
IT Brand Pulse Takeaway: Current State – EverMind is building an integrated memory ecosystem consisting of developer infrastructure, consumer memory applications, and memory-first autonomous agents. Emerging Trend – The company reflects a broader industry shift away from treating memory as a feature and toward treating it as foundational AI infrastructure.
Future Vision
EverMind’s strategy aligns closely with our vision of persistent, user-controlled memory that spans applications, models, devices, and eventually organizations.
Dec 10, 2025
Brand Is Not Optional in AI: It’s a Core Competitive Advantage
In AI’s next era, technology alone isn’t enough. Brand has become a strategic differentiator, signaling trust, reducing risk, and driving adoption. Here’s why brand is not optional in AI; it’s a core competitive advantage.
Dec 9, 2025
AI Product Taxonomy: A Complete View of the Modern Stack
AI has grown from a research domain into a full-stack technology ecosystem. This taxonomy breaks down each layer, from consumer applications to physical infrastructure, and explains how they connect into a unified AI economy.
Dec 8, 2025
Why Human Votes Matter: The Only True Measure of AI Brand Leadership
In a world flooded with AI-generated content and algorithmic rankings, human judgment has become more valuable, not less. Here’s why votes from IT practitioners are the only true measure of AI brand leadership.
Sep 19, 2022
IT Pros Vote 2022 Server Brand Leaders
Blog Dell chosen as market leader in volume segments of Enterprise Rackmount Servers and HCI Appliances. HPE selected market leader for specialized Blade Servers & HPC Servers. VMware dominates voting for Enterprise Server Hypervisor and HCI Software. SAN CLEMENTE, CA— SEPTEMBER 19, 2022— IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center […]
Jan 26, 2022
IT Pros Vote 2022 Brand Leaders for Flash
Blog Samsung SSD Market Leader for Eight Consecutive Year; Dell Technologies Voted Market Leader in Five Categories; Intel® Optane™ Chosen as Market Leader for NVDIMM; SAP HANA Voted Market Leader for Big Memory Software SAN CLEMENTE, CA—JANUARY 26, 2022— IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today […]
Apr 3, 2020
IT Pros Vote 2020 Networking Brand Leaders
Blog Cisco selected Market Leader in five product categories, including the first annual survey covering the nascent On-Prem Networking-as-a-Service product category SAN CLEMENTE, CA — April 6, 2020 — IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today announced the 2020 networking Brand Leaders, voted by IT professionals […]
Feb 13, 2020
IT Pros Vote 2020 Storage Brand Leaders
Blog Dell Technologies Voted Market Leader in Nine Product Categories; Microsoft Chosen for Two Products. Western Digital Displaces Seagate as Leader for Enterprise HDDs. Veritas Continues to be a Leader for Distributed Database Backup & Recovery. SAN CLEMENTE, CA — April 6, 2020 — IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis […]
Aug 4, 2019
IT Pros Vote 2019 Flash Brand Leaders
Blog Dell Technologies Companies Win IT Pro Votes in 5 All-Flash Product Categories. AWS, HPE and IBM Selected in All-Flash-as-a-Service Categories. Samsung and Intel Sweep Component Categories. SAN CLEMENTE, CA—August 5, 2019— IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today announced the results of 2019 IT pro […]
Jul 15, 2019
IT Pros Vote 2019 Servers Brand Leaders
Blog Dell EMC selected as Market Leader for volume Rackmount Servers and Hyper-Converged Systems; IT pros vote Intel as Market Leader for Server CPUs, LAN-on Motherboard, and SmartNICs; Red Hat Linux Chosen as Server OS leader in 4 of 6 brand categories. SAN CLEMENTE, CA—July 15, 2019— IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, […]
Apr 22, 2019
IT Pros Vote 2019 Storage Brand Leaders
Blog Dell EMC selected as Market Leader in six product categories; Pure Storage chosen for two products, Microsoft emerges as a storage leader, Seagate 10-peats for enterprise HDDs SAN CLEMENTE, CA—April 24, 2019— IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today announced the 2019 Storage Brand Leaders, […]
Mar 8, 2019
IT Pros Vote 2018 Networking & Storage Brand Leaders
Blog Cisco chosen Market Leader in four product categories; Dell EMC picks up three Market titles; Arista, Google, NetApp & Red Hat also take Market honors SAN CLEMENTE, CA – April 5, 2018— IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today announced the results of the recent […]
Mar 6, 2019
IT Pros Vote 2019 Networking Brand Leaders
Blog Cisco named Market Leader in three product categories; F5 tops two; Mellanox, Broadcom/Emulex, Broadcom/Brocade, SolarWinds, Dell EMC, Big Switch, Riverbed, and VMware also take Market titles SAN CLEMENTE, CA—March 6, 2019— IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today announced the 2019 Networking Brand Leaders, voted […]
Aug 8, 2018
IT Pros Vote 2018 Flash Storage Brand Leaders
Blog Dell EMC chosen Market Leader in four product categories; Intel awarded three; Samsung tops two; Mellanox, NetApp, Nutanix, Pure Storage, ScaleFlux and VMware other Market Leaders; Intel also recognized for special achievement in innovation. SAN DIEGO, CA—August 7, 2018—IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today […]
Aug 8, 2018
IT Brand Pulse Presents 2018 Innovation Leader Awards at Flash Memory Summit
Blog Innovation Leaders Voted by IT Professionals for Flash Storage Related Products SANTA CLARA, CA—August 8, 2018— IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, will honor 2018 Innovation Leaders—as voted by IT pros in Flash Storage related product categories—at Flash Memory Summit on Wednesday, August 8 at 2:00 […]
Mar 27, 2018
IT Pros Vote 2018 Server Brand Leaders
Blog HPE chosen Market Leader in four product categories; Intel picks up two Market titles; Cisco, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Supermicro & VMware also take Market Leader honors SAN DIEGO, CA—March 28, 2018—IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today announced the results of the recent IT brand […]
Mar 13, 2018
IT Pros Vote 2018 Storage Brand Leaders
Blog Dell EMC named Market Leader in five product categories; NetApp and IBM take two Market titles; Pure Storage, Rubrik Datos IO, Seagate, & Zadara Storage also selected Market Leaders SAN DIEGO, CA—March 14, 2018—IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today announced the results of the […]
Feb 13, 2018
IT Pros Vote 2018 Networking & Endpoint Security Brand Leaders
Blog Cisco named Market Leader in three product categories; SolarWinds, Symantec each top two; Broadcom/Emulex, Citrix, Cylance, Mandiant, Mellanox, Riverbed, Schneider Electric also take Market titles SAN DIEGO, CA—February 13, 2018—IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today announced the results of the recent IT brand leader survey […]
Sep 7, 2017
IT Brand Pulse Compares the Cost of Dell EMC and HPE/SUSE/iTernity Compliance Archive Solutions
Blog San Diego, CA – September 7, 2017 – IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source of research, testing and analysis about data center infrastructure, announced the results of a total cost of ownership study. The report includes actual price quotes for compliance archive solutions from Dell EMC and HPE/SUSE/iTernity. The study analyzes the cost of hardware, software […]