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Data Storage Solutions Directory

Below is a directory of Data Storage vendors, tools and software solutions including a company overview, links to social media and contact information for the Top 28 Data Storage companies. If you would like a printed version of this page including solutions profiles and a list of the top questions to ask in an RFP – Request for Proposal, click here for a Free PDF.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a range of IT infrastructure services to enterprises. In addition to storage, the provider’s solutions and products include cloud computing, compute, networking, content delivery, database...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a range of IT infrastructure services to enterprises. In addition to storage, the provider’s solutions and products include cloud computing, compute, networking, content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, backup, and archive. AWS provides a variety of cloud storage solutions, such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and AWS Backup, among others. Users are enabled to select from object, block, and file storage services as well as cloud data migration options when selecting their solution. The vendor’s various platforms also support both application and archival compliance requirements. Amazon Web Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Washington.

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Amazon Web Services’ Amazon S3 leads the market in regards to revenue and the amount of data under management. This dominance gives AWS control over both the ecosystem of developers who use the S3 API, but also the storage vendors that implement the S3 API in their storage platforms delivered on-prem. Though AWS has been hesitant to emulate some of its competitors by natively offering products from other vendors such as Dell EMC and NetApp, the provider can deliver end-to-end solutions from edge and on-prem enterprise data centers to public cloud storage services without sacrificing security.

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Cloudian is an independent provider of object storage systems, offering S3 compatibility along with a partnership ecosystem. The vendor’s flagship solution, HyperStore, provides scalability, flexibility, and economics wit...

Cloudian is an independent provider of object storage systems, offering S3 compatibility along with a partnership ecosystem. The vendor’s flagship solution, HyperStore, provides scalability, flexibility, and economics within the data center. Additionally, Cloudian’s data fabric architecture allows enterprises to store, find, and protect object and file data across sites. These processes can take place both on-prem and in public clouds within a single, unified platform. Cloudian was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in California.

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Cloudian’s solution is recommended to be deployed as a target for enterprise backup solutions and data tiering. It is also frequently used as an archive for rich media and video surveillance. Though its file service implementation is still growing and not fully integrated, Cloudian works well with object-based workloads. The provider is also expanding its integration by qualifying HyperStore as a target for third-party backup, data management, and cloud gateway products. Additionally, Cloudian offers HyperStore as an appliance, and as software.

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Cohesity consolidates secondary storage silos onto a hyperconverged, web-scale data platform that supports both public and private clouds. The vendor’s storage solution enables users to streamline their backup and data pr...

Cohesity consolidates secondary storage silos onto a hyperconverged, web-scale data platform that supports both public and private clouds. The vendor’s storage solution enables users to streamline their backup and data protection, and then converge file and object services, test/dev instance, and analytic functions to provide a global data store. Cohesity provides a single platform, a single GUI, and an app ecosystem, as well as machine learning capabilities. The provider offers two hyperconverged platforms; C3000 and C4000, as well as its distributed file system solution, Cohesity SpanFS. Cohesity was founded in 2013 and is headquarted in Texas.

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Cohesity is recommended to users who are also in the market for a backup solution, in addition to a storage platform. The provider was also named a Top 25 Disrupter and one of the 10 Coolest Hyperconverged Products by CRN in 2016. According to Gartner Peer Reviews, while the provider’s VM backup capabilities are strong, the solution’s core strength is managing, indexing, and protecting secondary storage data. Cohesity also offers 24/7 technical support year round via phone, web, email, or IM.

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Continuity Software offers protection against ransomware groups which are now beginning to target data backup and storage systems. Its flagship offering, Continuity StorageGuard, is unique because many other providers don...

Continuity Software offers protection against ransomware groups which are now beginning to target data backup and storage systems. Its flagship offering, Continuity StorageGuard, is unique because many other providers don’t cover these valuable infrastructure layers. StorageGuard helps organizations protect valuable data and ensures maximum data recoverability. Continuity’s vulnerability capabilities show all security misconfigurations, automatically prioritized by business impact, and with clear remediation guidelines.

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Continuity sipports all major enterprise data storage and backup and recovery vendors, including Brocade, Cisco, Cohesity, Commvault, Dell EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Nutanix, Rubrik, Veeam, Veritas, and VMWare. The provider’s StorageGuard offering is also listed as a featured offering in analyst house Gartner, Inc.’s 2022 Hype Cycle on Storage & Data Protection Technologies. Continuity was founded in 2005 by a team of storage and data protection practitioners.

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DataDirect Networks, also known as DDN, is a provider of scalable storage and processing solutions, as well as professional services. Organizations have the ability to use DDN storage to capture, store, process, analyze, ...

DataDirect Networks, also known as DDN, is a provider of scalable storage and processing solutions, as well as professional services. Organizations have the ability to use DDN storage to capture, store, process, analyze, collaborate, and distribute data, information, and content at a large scale. The solution is offered in two appliance options, and is also available as a software-only distribution. The vendor provides services to financial services firms, healthcare organizations, energy companies, government facilities, and cloud service providers. DataDirect Networks was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in California.

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DataDirect Networks has a heritage in the HPC market, as well as the resource to effectively serve the object storage needs of customers with its Web Object Scaler (WOS) solution. Enterprises have the ability to select from a range of WOS hardware and software deployment options that suit their respective infrastructure, cost, and management preferences. Though DDN has made no notable product updates to WOS in the past year, the provider does offer integration between WOS and its parallel file system appliances, GRIDScaler and EXAScaler, for handling warm and cold datasets between environments.

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Dell EMC enables digital transformation through hybrid cloud and big data solutions built on a data center infrastructure that brings together converged infrastructure, servers, storage, and cybersecurity technologies. Th...

Dell EMC enables digital transformation through hybrid cloud and big data solutions built on a data center infrastructure that brings together converged infrastructure, servers, storage, and cybersecurity technologies. The provider’s featured solution, Dell EMC Unity XT, offers multi-cloud enablement and an NVMe-ready design. Users are enabled to support virtualized applications, deploy unified storage, and address Remote-Office-Branch-Office requirements. The platform’s Unisphere management GUI also allows users to easily configure and manage storage. The vendor also offers file and object storage solutions. Dell EMC is headquartered in Massachusetts and was founded in 2016.

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Dell EMC’s storage solutions are recommended as an archive and cloud storage for unstructured data when object storage is preferred. Additionally, platforms are frequently used to support high-throughput, file-based workloads, and are increasingly being used for very large analytics workloads. These solutions are typically sold with Dell EMC hardware, but both can be deployed solely as software. The large installed base of these solutions, combined with integrated implementation planning and post implementation support experience from Dell EMC provides confidence in the solution’s reliability.

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Fujitsu is a Japanese information and communication technology company that offers a range of technology products, solutions, and services. These services and solutions include consulting, systems integration, managed ser...

Fujitsu is a Japanese information and communication technology company that offers a range of technology products, solutions, and services. These services and solutions include consulting, systems integration, managed services, outsourcing and cloud services for infrastructure, platforms and applications, data center and field services, and server, storage software, and mobile technologies. Fujitsu provides all-flash and hybrid storage, hyper scale storage, and storage management software, as well as storage for backup and archive. Fujitsu was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Japan and California.

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Fujitsu is recommended to organizations with midrange capacity needs. The provider recently added Intel Skylake CPUs and optimized flash software as a means to enhance both the controller and operating system. The provider has been praised for its consistent systems reliability and uptime, even during project time. Additionally, while client visits and meetings are a weakness of the company, Fujitsu is strong with regard to scalability and resources such as PM, SDM, and Architect.

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Hitachi Vantara assists enterprises with storing, enriching, activating, and monetizing their data. The provider offers four solutions under the umbrella of object storage, namely, Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), HCP Anyw...

Hitachi Vantara assists enterprises with storing, enriching, activating, and monetizing their data. The provider offers four solutions under the umbrella of object storage, namely, Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), HCP Anywhere, Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI), and Hitachi Content Intelligence. Each provides object storage; file synchronization, sharing, and end-user data protection; a cloud file gateway; and search and analytic insights, respectively. The vendor is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and also offers backup and disaster recovery solutions. Hitachi Vantara was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.

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Hitachi Vantara’s Hitachi Content Platform is a mature product that is deployed across a wide range of geographies and industries with expertise in compliance-focused archiving. The provider also consistently puts in effort to enhance the quality of support and service for the solution. Though Hitachi Vantara has shifted its business focus to Internet of Things (IoT) and analytics, HCP continues to maintain and expand one of the broadest ISV support ecosystems in the industry. HCP is recommended for traditional archiving solutions and new diverse use cases, such as data management for distributed workloads.

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HPE SimpliVity provides hyperconverged storage by converging the entire IT stack in each node, consolidation up to ten devices and apps in a building block for virtualized workloads. Prior to HPE’s acquisition of the comp...

HPE SimpliVity provides hyperconverged storage by converging the entire IT stack in each node, consolidation up to ten devices and apps in a building block for virtualized workloads. Prior to HPE’s acquisition of the company, SimpliVity delivered hyperconverged infrastructure on a range of industry-standard x86 platforms. Now, HPE SimpliVity provides its software-defined solutions that are built and supported by HPE. The vendor offers two platforms, HPE SimpliVity 380 and HPE SimpliVity 2600, which can both be integrated with the intelligent networking fabric, HPE Composable Fabric. HPE SimpliVity was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in California.

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HPE SimpliVity is recommended for use cases such as ROBO, small office, retail, and VDI, where applications tend to be less latency sensitive and infrastructure can benefit from a smaller footprint. The vendor is praised for its ease of use and intuitive management interface. HPE SimpliVity also offers extensive integration with VMware, enabling users to manage storage and functionality through the same vSphere Web Client they have in use already in order to manage other infrastructure operations. This includes full VM operations, such as restoring a VM.

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Huawei Technologies is a telecom solutions provider that offers infrastructure application software and devices with wireline, wireless, and IP technologies. The vendor has three divisions in the United States: enterprise...

Huawei Technologies is a telecom solutions provider that offers infrastructure application software and devices with wireline, wireless, and IP technologies. The vendor has three divisions in the United States: enterprise (IP networking and router, wireless, storage, and data center security), carrier, and consumer devices (smartphones and tablets). In regards to storage, Huawei offers all-flash storage, hybrid flash storage, cloud storage, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), and data management. Its HCI platform, FusionCube for Cloud enables resource-on-demand provisioning and linear expansion. Huawei Technologies was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in China.

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Huawei’s FusionStorage 7.0 is ready to enable hybrid cloud connectivity between on-prem and public cloud environments, although its public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is currently mainly focused on China. The solution is recommended for use cases such as big data analytics, home directories, video surveillance, and commercial HPC. Additionally, Huawei’s platforms have shown strong momentum in the “safe city” market, especially due to its management of the video surveillance process.

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IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services, including predictive analytics and software development. The provider offers a range of storage options, including flash storage, Software-Defined Storage (SD...

IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services, including predictive analytics and software development. The provider offers a range of storage options, including flash storage, Software-Defined Storage (SDS), data protection software, hybrid storage arrays, Storage Area Networks (SAN), and tape storage. Through these products, IBM’s solutions support hybrid cloud storage, converged infrastructure, and virtual infrastructure. Additionally, the platforms allow for storage for blockchain, artificial intelligence, private cloud, and SAP. IBM is headquartered in New York and was founded in 1911.

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IBM’s solutions, IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Cloud Object storage, are typically used for scientific and commercial HPC, big data analytics, AI, home directories, backup, active archiving, and content distribution. Spectrum Scale also offers multicluster and cross-geography, single-name space support, with the ability to expand to public clouds. Additionally, users should be aware that the IBM partner selection process is critical, as the knowledge of partners widely varies. IBM Spectrum Scale is also being sold by many OEM partners and is viewed as a top choice for distributed file storage in HPC use cases.

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Infinidat helps enterprises and service providers empower their data-driven competitive advantage at scale. The company offers data storage software designed to store and protect petabytes of data. The provider specialize...

Infinidat helps enterprises and service providers empower their data-driven competitive advantage at scale. The company offers data storage software designed to store and protect petabytes of data. The provider specializes in storage, big data, cloud, NAS, SAN, and object storage. Infinidat’s primary storage portfolio is made up of InfiniBox, which offers high-capacity, performance capabilities, and resilient storage architecture. In the last year, Infinidat has made enhancements to its operating system, including the introduction of active-active replication, concurrent three-site replication, security improvements, and a new Kubernetes CSI drive.

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Infinidat helps enterprises and service providers empower their data-driven competitive advantage at scale. The company offers data storage software designed to store and protect petabytes of data. The provider specializes in storage, big data, cloud, NAS, SAN, and object storage. Infinidat’s primary storage portfolio is made up of InfiniBox, which offers high-capacity, performance capabilities, and resilient storage architecture. In the last year, Infinidat has made enhancements to its operating system, including the introduction of active-active replication, concurrent three-site replication, security improvements, and a new Kubernetes CSI drive.

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Inspur provides big data services, cloud data center, cloud services, and smart enterprises. The provider offers Active Storage (AS) and the infrastructure SDS (AS13000) platform. Inspur AS13000 is delivered as a hardware...

Inspur provides big data services, cloud data center, cloud services, and smart enterprises. The provider offers Active Storage (AS) and the infrastructure SDS (AS13000) platform. Inspur AS13000 is delivered as a hardware appliance, but a software-only solution is also available for strategic customers and partners. While Inspur provides many services, its storage business is the second largest within the company, after its server business. The majority of Inspur’s storage dealings take place in China, with the government and transportation/logistics industry accounting for more than half of its revenue. Inspur is headquartered in China and was founded in 1983.

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The Inspur AS13000 works especially well with enterprises in the Asia/Pacific region, as the provider has seen aggressive growth in that market share. Additionally, in China, Inspur has taken a leadership position in relation to AI, machine learning, HPC, and big data analytics workloads on its server platforms, which has resulted in a demand for a turnkey solution that includes its AS13000 distributed file system product. While Inspur is still evolving from a server to a portfolio company, and does not have a long history in enterprise storage, it differentiates itself through multiprotocol support and extreme scalability.

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NetApp is a storage, cloud computing, information technology, and data management solution provider. In addition to predominantly offering on-prem storage infrastructure, the provider also specializes in hybrid cloud data...

NetApp is a storage, cloud computing, information technology, and data management solution provider. In addition to predominantly offering on-prem storage infrastructure, the provider also specializes in hybrid cloud data services that facilitate the management of applications and data across cloud and on-prem environments, in order to accelerate digital transformation. The vendor’s solution, StorageGRID, is an object storage platform whose primary access method is the Amazon S3 API. The tool offers hybrid cloud workflow, and adheres to SEC and FINRA regulations. NetApp was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in California.

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NetApp was initially popularly used as storage infrastructure for unstructured data, but newer versions of StorageGRID are commonly being used for modern application use cases, such as applications that utilize the product’s S3 API. The solution is also making notable progress in the market for object storage. Additionally, StorageGRID is beginning to attract well-known brand names to its platform spanning a diverse range of industries, including media and entertainment, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. NetApp was also early to embrace the public cloud, resulting in deep integrations with public cloud providers.

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Nutanix provides cloud software, compute and storage infrastructure, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions for implementing enterprise virtualization without complex and expensive network storage, whether it is SAN ...

Nutanix provides cloud software, compute and storage infrastructure, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions for implementing enterprise virtualization without complex and expensive network storage, whether it is SAN or NAS. Nutanix Complete Cluster’s converged compute and storage architecture can scale to manage petabytes of data while running thousands of virtual machines. Nutanix’s storage solution, Nutanix Acropolis, offers built-in AHV virtualization, networking services, platform services, and enterprise storage capabilities such as data protection and disaster recovery features. Nutanix is headquartered in California and was founded in 2009.

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Nutanix Acroplis is recommended for mid-sized businesses. The solution was praised for its ease of use, as well as the visibility that comes with the user interface. Users should be aware that the file-based storage from Nutanix is not as stable as the block based storage solutions. The vendor has also eliminated traditional RAID, which decreases I/O when changing the number of nodes in a cluster. Additionally, the platform is hypervisor agnostic, which provides flexibility. Nutanix also offers 24x7x365 product support through the web, the provider’s support portal, or by phone call.

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Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage provider that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers. Its technologies enable Software as a Service (SaaS) organizations, cloud service providers, and enterprise ...

Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage provider that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers. Its technologies enable Software as a Service (SaaS) organizations, cloud service providers, and enterprise and public sector users to deliver secure data to power their DevOps and modern analytics environments in a multi-cloud environment. The vendor’s platforms accelerate random I/O-intensive applications such as server virtualization, desktop virtualization (VDI), database (OLTP, rich analytics/OLAP, SQL, and NoSQL), and cloud computing. Pure Storage also enables users to adopt next-generation technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to maximize the value of their data.

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Pure Storage’s Flash Blade is recommended for use cases such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, real-time analytics, life sciences, HPC, and rapid restore data protection workloads. The platform has been adopted by customers at a rapid rate, making Pure Storage a more trusted brand in the enterprise. Additionally, FlashBlade is targeting emerging workloads that require a unified system that is designed for all-flash and capable of delivering high performance for mixed and metadata-intensive workloads.

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Qumulo is an enterprise data storage startup whose solutions are available on Qumulo storage servers, on hardware from companies such as Dell and HPE, and natively on AWS in the public cloud. The provider was formed by pr...

Qumulo is an enterprise data storage startup whose solutions are available on Qumulo storage servers, on hardware from companies such as Dell and HPE, and natively on AWS in the public cloud. The provider was formed by professionals from Isilon Systems, Adobe, and Wily Technology. The vendor offers Qumulo File Fabric (QF2), a scale-out NAS tool that runs on-prem and in the public cloud, as well as preintegrated Qumulo Core appliances. Additionally, the provider offers software that is available on AWS Marketplace, third-party hardware, and standard hardware that Qumulo sells directly to customers. Qumulo was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Washington.

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Qumulo is making notable gains in the market for distributed file systems, especially when contrasted with its traction from the previous year. Additionally, Qumulo’s QF2 hybrid cloud capability goes beyond backup to the public cloud and delivers a scale-out file system that operates identically across on-prem and public cloud environments. This enables public cloud bursting capability for processing data in the cloud. Qumulo’s execution on hardware, software, analytics, and cloud capabilities combined with biweekly software release deployment results in a quick turnaround on features or problem solving.

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Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and web hosting. While the vendor is primarily a web hosting and managed service provider that has been offering OpenStack-based public c...

Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and web hosting. While the vendor is primarily a web hosting and managed service provider that has been offering OpenStack-based public cloud services, but it has shifted its strategy to being a managed service provider across a range of public clouds, rather than focusing on its own native cloud storage services. In regards to storage, Rackspace offers Cloud Files and Cloud Block Storage. The vendor’s public cloud services are offered in data centers in the central and eastern U.S., the U.K., Australia, and Hong Kong. Rackspace is headquartered in Texas, and was founded in 1998.

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Rackspace’s managed service team has the ability to provide a white-glove approach to implementing and managing storage-centric cloud use cases, such as backup, content distribution, archiving, and disaster recovery. Users with stringent performance or host security needs are able to make use of RackConnect to integrate their cloud storage environments with dedicated servers that can be spun up in its cloud in a single-tenanted manner. Additionally, Cloud Files has native integration with the Akamai CDN, which has presence in more 70 countries, and serves content to users with low-latency access from a large set of edge locations globally.

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Red Hat is a software provider that offers open-source software products to the enterprise community. The vendor provides operating system platforms, along with middleware, applications, and management solutions, as well ...

Red Hat is a software provider that offers open-source software products to the enterprise community. The vendor provides operating system platforms, along with middleware, applications, and management solutions, as well as support, training, and consulting services. Red Hat provides Red Hat Ceph Storage, an open-source software product supporting block, object storage access and file access, as well as the underlying storage for Red Hat’s data analytics infrastructure solution and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud. The platform supports modern workloads like cloud infrastructure, data analytics, media repositories, and backup and restore system. Red Hat is based in North Carolina and was founded in 1993.

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Red Hat Ceph Storage offers versatility, as shown by the increasing popularity of the platform being deployed as a block, file, and object storage system. The solution is also tightly integrated with both the OpenShift platform for containers and Kubernetes, which enables data persistence and protection for containerized workloads in either hyperconverged or disaggregated form factors. Additionally, Red Hat Ceph Storage is certified across a broad spectrum of server hardware, with reference architectures available from server OEMs like HPE, Cisco, and Supermicro, and as hardware appliances through backup vendors such as Commvault.

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Scality is a venture-backed software provider that delivers large-scale storage management and infrastructure solutions. The vendor’s flagship solution, RING, makes x86 servers scale to hundreds of petabytes and billions ...

Scality is a venture-backed software provider that delivers large-scale storage management and infrastructure solutions. The vendor’s flagship solution, RING, makes x86 servers scale to hundreds of petabytes and billions of objects. Additionally, RING has an end-to-end parallel architecture and a patented object storage core that increases availability and durability. The platform integrates with applications through standard storage protocols such as NFS, S3, OpenStack Swift, and Cinder. Scality offers its services to telecommunications and media companies throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Scality was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in California.

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Scality RING delivers hardware independence and the ability to run and expand mixed-server environments without interruptions of service. The solution is recommended for multipetabyte, geographically distributed deployments of unstructured data for content distribution, email, video, active archiving, backup, medical imaging, and HPC archiving. Users should be aware that though RING performs differently based on the server hardware platform chosen, they can run a proof of concept on approved reference architectures before full deployment and include a performance evaluation.

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Seagate Technology offers world-class, precision-engineered data storage and management solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships. A global technology leader for nearly 45 years, the company has shipped over four...

Seagate Technology offers world-class, precision-engineered data storage and management solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships. A global technology leader for nearly 45 years, the company has shipped over four billion terabytes of data capacity. Seagate puts companies’ data to work, giving them better insights, new value, and the discovery of latent opportunities available by the massive amounts of untapped data. Whether it is private cloud, edge, public cloud, or multicloud, Seagate interconnects ecosystems to enable innovation.

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Seagate is the world leader in data storage infrastructure. They produce more Hard Disk Drives (HDD) annually than any manufacturer and features a full portfolio of mass capacity storage solutions including enterprise grade Solid-State Drives (SSD), complete mass capacity storage systems and an efficient cloud storage-as-a-service platform with predictable pricing that is a major value-add for medium organizations and above.

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SUSE is an open source software provider that delivers software-defined infrastructure and application delivery solutions. The SUSE Enterprise Storage (SES) is based on Ceph and provides unified access for block, file, an...

SUSE is an open source software provider that delivers software-defined infrastructure and application delivery solutions. The SUSE Enterprise Storage (SES) is based on Ceph and provides unified access for block, file, and object protocols for mainstream enterprises. Additionally, SUSE is one of the eight founding organizations on the Ceph Advisory Board, and a contributor to the Ceph open-source community. SES is delivered as software or as reference architecture through hardware OEMs with Dell EMC, Supermicro, HPE, Lenovo, Huawei, Fujitsu, and Cisco. SUSE is headquartered in Germany and was founded in 1992.

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SUSE is an active contributor to the Ceph open-source community, with a focus on making Ceph consumable by enterprises by introducing improvements in manageability and supportability, The solution is recommended for use cases such as private cloud storage, content distribution, backup, and archiving. Though there is a learning curve for the solution, SUSE has recently doubled its number of customers and is now popularly being considered as a commercial support solution for Ceph storage. SUSE also offers 24×7 localized technical support.

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Violin Systems, also known as Violin, is an enterprise storage solution provider that supports cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-prem environments. Violin storage platforms are powered by Concerto OS, an integrated storage oper...

Violin Systems, also known as Violin, is an enterprise storage solution provider that supports cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-prem environments. Violin storage platforms are powered by Concerto OS, an integrated storage operating system. In addition to storage, the vendor also provides a combination of data protection, business continuity, and data reduction services through its integrated data services. Violin also delivers CAPEX and OPEX savings. The provider offers server, desktop, private cloud, and hybrid cloud storage solutions, as well as a range of hardware. Violin Systems is headquartered in California and was founded in 2005.

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Violin Systems’ FSP 7650 is delivered to the user with all of its flash already installed, but the user only pays for what they need. This is a part of the provider’s pay-as-you-grow plan, which they refer to as Scale Smart. The provider’s graphical user interface differentiates itself from others by allowing users to customize several dashboards, which can serve to bring the most relevant information to the forefront. Violin Systems’ platform is recommended to organizations that need high IOPs with very low latency.

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Western Digital (WD) provides data storage solutions to enable organizations manage and preserve their digital content. The provider offers Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and Solid-State Drives (SSDs) for desktop and notebook pe...

Western Digital (WD) provides data storage solutions to enable organizations manage and preserve their digital content. The provider offers Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and Solid-State Drives (SSDs) for desktop and notebook personal computers, as well as the performance enterprise and capacity enterprise markets. Additionally, Western Digital offers HDDs used in consumer electronics such as DVRs, security surveillance systems, and gaming consoles. The vendor’s storage solution, ActiveScale, has recently introduced two-site asynchronous replication and the ability to deploy selected Docker containers on the platform itself. Western Digital was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in California.

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Western Digital’s ActiveScale is being considered as a solution for very large unstructured data management challenges, despite it being a relatively new solution. The solution is recommended for large-scale deployments of analytics, content distribution, archive, and backup when a turnkey appliance is the preferred delivery model. Additionally, Western Digital is leveraging its combined resources, including disk storage manufacturing and supply chain expertise, in order to deliver higher value for ActiveScale’s overall hardware efficiency. Western Digital is also able to optimize drive size and placement within a rack at the point of manufacturing.