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DCIG 2020-21 Enterprise AFA Buyer’s Guide

Recommended: Huawei OceanStor, Dell EMC PowerMax, Hitachi Vantara VSP 5000, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray

This market report was authored by Ken Clipperton, lead analyst for storage, DCIG LLC, published on July 9, 2020.

 

 

DCIG 2020-21 Enterprise AFA Buyer’s Guide Now Available

This guide helps organizations assess the enterprise AFA marketplace and identify which array may be the best fit for their environment.

It includes data sheets for 17 enterprise AFA series that achieved rankings of Recommended and Excellent. Nine vendors offer these products, including Dell EMC, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Huawei, IBM, NetApp, Pure Storage, Kaminario (now Silk), and Tintri.

Enterprises replacing their legacy storage systems have a transformational data center and business opportunity. The storage landscape has changed dramatically over the last several years. For any business looking to refresh its storage infrastructure, these changes create a whole new world of possibilities.

AFA Innovation Goes Beyond Performance
The current gen of enterprise AFAs may deliver order of magnitude improvements over legacy storage across multiple vectors, including latency, capacity, and density. Beyond performance claims, these arrays transform the storage ownership experience along several vectors, to include:
• Sophisticated storage analytics with proactive technical support to maximize availability and application performance
• New acquisition and deployment options, including storage-as-a-service and in the public cloud
• Automation of provisioning and ongoing storage management tasks

Advantages of Upgrading to the AFAs Presented in This Guide
Any organization that has not yet adopted an all-flash storage infrastructure for its active workloads operates at a competitive disadvantage.

The enterprise all-flash storage arrays presented in this guide can:
• Help organizations move faster
• Make existing applications run faster even as data sets grow
• Accelerate application development
• Enable IT departments to say, “Yes” to new workloads and then get those new workloads producing results in record time
• Drive down data center operating costs

How the Guide Helps Decision-Makers
As in the development of all prior DCIG buyer’s guides, DCIG does the heavy lifting for enterprise technology buyers by:
• Identifying a common technology need with competing solutions
• Scanning the environment to identify available products in the marketplace
• Gathering normalized data about the features each product supports
• Providing an objective, third-party evaluation of those features from an end-user perspective
• Describing key product considerations and important changes in the marketplace
• Presenting DCIG’s opinions and product feature data in a way that facilitates the rapid comparisons of various products and product features

DCIG 2020-21 Enterprise AFA Buyer’s Guide Product Rankings
The enterprise AFAs that DCIG ranks as Recommended or Excellent are as follows:

Dcig 2020 21 Enterprise Afa Buyer Guide

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria for this Guide
All arrays included satisfy the following criteria:
• Product is available in an all-flash configuration
• Support at least 2 controllers that may be configured as highly available to facilitate rapid failover (in a minute or less) and uninterrupted access to data
• Support availability through hot swap components including controllers, drives, fans, and power supplies.
• Support at least one replication method
• Support FC connectivity
• Support VMware virtualized environments
• Is intended for the storage of production data (as opposed to archive or backup data)
• Scale-out or scale-up to more than 500 TB of raw capacity
• Have 24x7x365 access to technical support staff of the vendor
• Opportunity to receive support from an onsite technician
• Must be formally announced and/or available for purchase as of May 1, 2020

A product or product model that might have been expected to appear in this guide may have been excluded for various reasons.

These may include, but are not limited to:
• The product was not announced prior to the cutoff date
• The product has been discontinued or is no longer being marketed
• The product did not meet the inclusion criteria
• The product did not rank sufficiently high
• DCIG is unable to find sufficient product information to draw meaningful conclusions
• DCIG received no feedback from the vendor about its product

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