Flash Brand Leaders – 2019

SSD: SAS/SATA or NVMe SSD modules in various form-factors Samsung continues to be the leader for SSD as they received their sixth Market title in addition to being selected the Price, Performance, Reliability, Innovation, and Service & Support leader....

NVDIMM: DIMM packages with some type of non-volatile memory on-board IT Pros repeated their votes from last year as they named Intel the Market, Performance, Reliability, Innovation, and Service & Support, while Micro (second place Market) received the...

Computational Storage: Compute moved to processing inside flash storage systems for applications like pattern matching, indexing, and searching Samsung dominated the competition as IT Pros acknowledged them as the leader for Market, Price, Performance,...

All Flash SAN Array: All-flash arrays for block storage with FC and/or iSCSI interfaces In this newly added survey category, Dell EMC proved to be the top dog by receiving the bulk of IT Pro votes for Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Innovation,...

All Flash NAS Array: All-flash arrays for file storage with Ethernet interfaces Dell EMC dethroned former five-time Market leader, NetApp, as IT Pros voted them the leader for all six categories for All Flash NAS Array: Market, Price, Performance,...

All Flash NVMe-oF Array: All-flash arrays for block or file storage with NVMe over FC, NVMe over RoCE or NVMe over TCP interfaces IT Pros selected IBM as Market leader for this newly added category as well as titles for Performance, Reliability, Service...

Hybrid HDD/SSD Array: SAN and/or NAS arrays supporting HDDs and SSDs Dell EMC was the clear leader for Hybrid HDD/SSD Array as IT Pros voted them the Market leader for the seventh time as well as Price, Performance, Reliability, Innovation, and Service...

All Flash Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI): HCI systems configured with all-flash storage Dell Technologies has surpassed the competition for HCI as IT Pros voted them the leader across the board for Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Innovation,...

On-Prem All-Flash Storage-as-a-Service: All-flash object, block or file storage as-a-service available on-premises at a customer IT Pros vote HPE the new leader for On-Prem All-Flash Storage-as-a-Service, knocking former and three-time champ, Zadara, to...

Public Cloud All-Flash Storage-as-a-Service: All-flash object, block or file storage as-a-service available in a public cloud First time category, AWS pulled out a complete victory as IT Pros named them Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service...

Hybrid Cloud All-Flash Storage-as-a-Service: All-flash object, block or file storage as-a-service available in a public cloud AND on-premises at customer In another new survey category, IT Pros recognize VMware as the leader for five segments for Hybrid...

Multi-Cloud All-Flash Storage-as-a-Service: All-flash object, block or file storage as-a-service available in multiple public clouds (AWS + Azure + Google, setc.) While the top three companies of this newly added survey were close in all categories, IT...