Published: 11 October 2021
Summary
Primary storage systems deployed as arrays or software-defined storage solutions are crucial to mission- and business-critical workloads. I&O leaders need to evaluate platform attributes, core technologies and business model capabilities across use cases shaping next-generation IT strategies.
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Strategic Planning Assumptions
- DDN NexentaStor
- DDN Tintri VMstore
- Dell EMC PowerMax
- Dell EMC PowerStore
- FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF Series
- Hitachi VSP 5000 Series
- HPE Nimble Storage
- HPE Primera
- Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 Series
- IBM FlashSystem
- IBM Spectrum Virtualize
- Infinidat InfiniBox
- Inspur HF18000
- NetApp AFF A-Series
- NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
- Pure Cloud Block Store
- Pure Storage FlashArray//X R3 Series
- Zadara zStorage
- Performance
- Storage Efficiency
- RAS
- Scalability
- Ecosystem
- Multitenancy and Security
- Manageability
- Online Transaction Processing
- Server Virtualization and VDI
- Containers
- Application Consolidation
- Cloud IT Operations
Gartner Recommended Reading
Critical Capabilities Methodology