Published: 25 October 2021
Summary
Vendors are increasingly investing in a single unstructured data storage platform for serving both file and object use cases. In this research, we evaluate 17 file and object storage products against eight critical capabilities in seven use cases important to I&O leaders.
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Strategic Planning Assumptions
- Cloudian (HyperStore)
- DDN (ExaScaler)
- Dell Technologies (Dell EMC ECS)
- Dell Technologies (Dell EMC PowerScale)
- Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi Content Platform)
- Huawei (OceanStor Pacific)
- IBM (COS)
- IBM (Spectrum Scale)
- Inspur (AS13000G5)
- NetApp (StorageGRID)
- Nutanix (Unified Storage)
- Pure Storage (FlashBlade)
- Quantum (ActiveScale)
- Qumulo (Qumulo Core)
- Red Hat (Ceph Storage)
- Scality (RING)
- Weka (WekaFS)
- Storage Efficiency
- Security and Multitenancy
- Capacity
- Interoperability
- Manageability
- Performance
- Resilience
- Value
- Analytics
- Archiving
- Backup
- Hybrid Cloud Storage
- Cloud-Native Applications
- Cloud IT Operations
- Commercial HPC
Gartner Recommended Reading
Critical Capabilities Methodology