Gartner: Best Primary Storage Solution of 2020 as Reviewed by Customers

Primary Storage – The Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage, from Gartner, Inc., covers vendors that offer dedicated products or product lines for solid-state arrays (SSAs) or hybrid storage arrays or both.

Hybrid storage arrays include hybrid SSD+HDD configurations. SSA products are 100% solid-state technology-based systems that cannot be combined or expanded with any form of HDDs.

Dell EMC
Products:

XtremIO X2
XtremIO
Unity All Flash
SC Series
Isilon
PowerMax
Unity F-series
Unity Hybrid Arrays
Unity XT
Unity SC

“Feature-rich arrays that are fast, reliable, expandable and easy to configure and maintain,” commented technology architect in the healthcare industry.

HPE
Products:

3PAR StoreServ Storage
Nimble Storage
Nimble Storage AFAs

HPE is the global edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers open and intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.

“Powerfull storage with rich features,” said IT operation head in the finance industry.

Infinidat
Product:

Infinibox F

Infinidat helps customers create a data-driven competitive advantage by unlocking the full potential of their data with storage solutions. Its software-focused storage architecture solves the conflicting requirements of performance, capacity, and cost. Its storage technology simultaneously delivers sub-millisecond latency with 100% data availability, petabyte-scale capacity and a lower TCO than incumbent storage technologies.

“Best storage I have ever used,” said DevOps manager in the communications industry.

NetApp
Products:

AFF Series
EF-Series
E-Series

“Excellent product fast and reliable,” said infrastructure architect in the finance industry.

Pure Storage
Product:

FlashArray

Pure Storage helps modern organizations turn data into business advantage. Its solutions enable a unified data experience that can adapt as customer needs evolve. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies in history, the firm helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. It provides a data experience that creates a common operating environment across multiple data centers and clouds, easing operations via APIs and intelligent AI-driven automation. And with a certified NPS customer satisfaction score in the top 1%t of B2B companies, Pure’s expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.

“There’s a lot to love about Evergreen,” said senior manager servers hosting and storage in the manufacturing industry.