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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage

Published: 15 October 2020

Summary

IT leaders are looking to deliver cost-effective, scalable and flexible storage platforms for growing amounts of unstructured data. This research assesses the key attributes, vision and executional prowess of distributed file systems and object storage vendors.

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  • Vendor Strengths and Cautions
    • Caringo
    • Cloudian
    • DDN
    • Dell Technologies
    • Hitachi Vantara
    • Huawei
    • IBM
    • Inspur
    • NetApp
    • Pure Storage
    • Quantum
    • Qumulo
    • Red Hat
    • Scality

Analysts:

Julia Palmer,  Jerry Rozeman,  Robert Preston,  Chandra Mukhyala,  Jeff Vogel

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