Storage Brand Leaders – 2019

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, Performance, Reliability,...

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 voted Veritas as the new leader across the board for Market, Price,...

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 product liability (Automotive). Another...

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.), emulate the previous backup targets (e.g., VTL [VTL]), data reduction...

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 across multiple devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PCs....

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 has proven itself a leader by being...

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, dethroning former eight-time leader, NetApp....

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 Pros for the seventh time as Market...

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 with Zadara Storage as Market leader. In addition to Market leader,...

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 was the clear winner across the board for Scale Out File & Object...

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 segments chosen as the overall Market, Price, Performance,...

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 which house dozens of HDDs or SSDs. Dell EMC headed up all...

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. The appliances can then run the emulated workload against storage systems to...

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, Reliability, Innovation, and Service & Support...