Storage Brand Leaders – 2019

2019 Storage Leaders: Ageless Storage Ageless Storage: Storage that is bought or leased (not Storage as a Service) with upgrades built into the purchase price or leasing terms. Pure Storage dominated across the board for Ageless Storage; selected by IT Pros as Price,…

2019 Storage Leaders: Distributed Database Backup & Recovery Distributed Database Backup & Recovery: Enterprise-class distributed backup and recovery for distributed database clusters. In the third IT Brand Pulse survey for this product category, IT Pros…

2019 Storage Leaders: Enterprise Archive Enterprise Archive: Long term storage of email and other data that is infrequently accessed, and often must adhere to compliance regulations such as GxP Data (Pharma), SEC17a4 (Banking), HIPAA, patient record (Healthcare), and…

2019 Storage Leaders: Enterprise Backup Software & Appliances Enterprise Backup Software & Appliances: Backup products which provide some or all of the following in an integrated appliance: backup to tape, backup to random-access media (disk, flash, etc.),…

2019 Storage Leaders: Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing: EFSS refers to a range of on-premises or cloud-based capabilities that enable individuals to synchronize and share documents, photos, videos and files…

2019 Storage Leaders: Enterprise HDDs Enterprise HDDs: Also known as a disk drive. Enterprise HDDs are disk drives with higher performance, capacity and reliability than HDDs for PCs. While the top two companies of Enterprise HDDs were close in all categories, Seagate…

2019 Storage Leaders: Hybrid NAS Array Hybrid NAS Array: Ethernet-based hybrid (disk and SSD) arrays which provide access to files using network file sharing protocols such as NFS, SMB/CIFS, or AFP. IT Pros voted Dell EMC as Market leader for Hybrid NAS Arrays,…

2019 Storage Leaders: Hybrid SAN Array Hybrid SAN Array: Fibre Channel and iSCSI-based hybrid (disk and SSD) arrays which provide access to files using network file sharing protocols such as NFS, SMB/CIFS, or AFP. Dell EMC controlled the board and was recognized by IT…

2019 Storage Leaders: On-Premises Enterprise Storage as a Service On-Premises Enterprise Storage as a Service: Storage which is deployed on-premise, but is purchased based on consumption. Pure Storage has completely surpassed Zadara Storage after a three-year streak…

2019 Storage Leaders: Scale Out File & Object Storage Appliances Scale Out File & Object Storage Appliances: Hardware/software appliances which serve as self-contained repositories for scale-out file and object storage. In this newly-added category, Dell EMC…

2019 Storage Leaders: Scale-out File & Object Storage Software Scale-out File & Object Storage Software: Software which runs on standard servers and for scale-out file and object storage. In this new survey category, VMware surpassed the competition in all…

2019 Storage Leaders: Servers for Software Defined Storage Servers for Software Defined Storage: Servers designed for deployment as storage nodes in a software defined storage cluster. Servers for software defined storage nodes are characterized by their enclosures…

2019 Storage Leaders: Storage Performance Validation Software & Appliances Storage Performance Validation Software & Appliances: Storage load generation and I/O measurement systems that gather data and then create a production workload model using the data….

2019 Storage Leaders: Unified SAN/NAS Disk Array Unified SAN/NAS Disk Array: A disk array which can be partitioned into a block-based SAN array and a file-based NAS array. Dell EMC pulled out another complete victory being selected Market, Price, Performance,…