2022-2023 Top 5 Enterprise SDS Universal Storage Solutions

This report, published on August 24, 2022, was written by Todd Dorsey, analyst, DCIG LLC.

2022-23 DCIG Top 5 Enterprise SDS Universal Storage Solutions

DCIG announces the availability of the 2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 Enterprise SDS Universal Storage Solutions report.

It evaluated 14 SDS solutions for a universal, multi-protocol use case across 5 different categories. This report provides guidance on the Top 5 solutions organizations should consider for SDS-based universal storage.

It is little surprise that data is growing faster than enterprise IT budgets. More devices and applications are creating more data. File sizes have increased. And organizations are under pressure to keep data for longer periods.

Today, enterprises may rely on a myriad of different storage systems based on media, protocols, and use-cases to handle their accumulating data. These systems come with unique tools, backup, and DR processes. Costs and complexities are forcing organizations to look for better ways to store, protect, and manage their data deluge.

Concurrently, the growth of SDS in the enterprise represents a broader transition to the software-defined data center, where infrastructure elements such as compute, storage, and networking are abstracted and virtualized. Increasing SDS capabilities, along with its flexibility and cost-efficiencies for data storage management, fuels SDS demand.

Universal SDS expands SDS’s capabilities. Storage administrators may configure, store and present block, file, and object access to their enterprise applications. It allows enterprises to replace multiple traditional storage systems with a single consolidated storage platform. With its features and benefits, it emerges as a preferred choice for a wide variety of use cases and helps organizations better manage their growing data.

In preparing this report, DCIG evaluated 14 SDS universal storage solutions for enterprise environments.

The general feature categories evaluated include:
• Deployment capabilities
• Data protection
• Product and performance management
• Technical support
• Licensing and pricing

Based on these criteria, DCIG awarded the following storage solutions a Top 5 ranking (in alphabetical order):
• Commvault Distributed Storage
• NetApp Ontap Select
• Red Hat Ceph Storage
• Veritas InfoScale
• VMware vSAN