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Storage Research Market Study in Europe and USA About End-Users Perceptions, Needs and Priorities

Top brands: NetApp in block, file and object, Quantum in secondary storage, and VMware in HCI

This Coldago Research report, written by Philippe Nicolas, presents the results of a survey run in January and February 2021 with European and American end-users.

It has extended the previous population for this updated study and considered a sample of 712 European users from UK, Germany and France with one-third representation for each country and 1,347 US users.

Users belong to the enterprise and SMB segments with 50% from each population. Companies span several verticals in term of industries and use-cases.

This report of 31 pages represents the part 1 of the complete study covering technology adoption, projects priorities and products/features with 27 questions. The part 2 will be published in August 2021 covering other topics important for the industry and end-users.

Here a some results from this study with priorities, purchase behavior and vendors rankings:

Questions about technologies and projects

What are your top 3 priorities in storage (and data management) for 2021?
Coldago 2

Questions about technologies and purchase behaviors

What is your storage and data management products purchase frequency?
Coldago 3

Questions about technologies and vendors

Who are the top 3 brands you will consider in block storage?
Coldago 23

Who are the top 3 brands you will consider in file storage?
Coldago 24

Who are the top 3 brands you will consider in object storage?
Coldago 25
Who are the top 3 brands you will consider in secondary storage?
Coldago 26

Who are the top 3 brands you will consider in HCI*?
Coldago 27

The report can be downloaded after registration.

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