Network Storage Advisors Publishes 2026 Strategic Landscape for Enterprise AI Storage Systems

Network Storage Advisors, an independent research and consulting firm, announced the release of the 2026 Strategic Landscape for Enterprise AI Storage Systems.This new 70+ page strategic landscape offers fact-based perspectives and industry-expert insights on storage systems for enterprise AI environments from DDN, Dell, Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), Hitachi Vantara, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Vast Data, and Weka. The report is now available for purchase on the Network Storage Advisors website.Businesses can save hundreds of hours of work by leveraging this Strategic Landscape report. Otherwise, they might need to find, analyze, and organize numerous data points distributed across potentially thousands of pages of reference materials, including reference architectures, whitepapers, guides, datasheets, specifications, manuals, and documentation.

The 2026 Strategic Landscape for Enterprise AI Storage Systems includes dashboards summarizing the performance, capacity, power, and space characteristics of each Enterprise AI Storage System, as well as power and space budgets across the ranges of Nvidia-certified DGX BasePOD and DGX SuperPOD configurations. Also, the report provides details about each Enterprise AI Storage System, including highlights, overviews, scalability, management, enhancements, and conclusions.

“We are currently at an inflection point where enterprise companies need to research and plan their data center infrastructure for AI workloads,” said Jay Kramer, president, Network Storage Advisors. “We have captured the most strategic information for Enterprise AI Storage Systems in one place for decision-makers and influencers to use when evaluating alternatives and planning investments.”

Research and analysis by Network Storage Advisors revealed that Enterprise AI Storage Systems vendors follow three strategies (portfolio, storage, workload), and that their solutions fit three category classes (configured, optimized, specialized). It also confirmed the Enterprise AI Storage Systems certified for Nvidia DGX BasePOD and DGX SuperPOD environments and workloads.

This Strategic Landscape report explains why and how the individual Enterprise AI Storage Systems align with these vendor strategies, category classes, AI platforms, and AI workloads. It also explores and describes other solution characteristics, capabilities, and specifications relevant to enterprise AI environments.

“Organizations with enterprise AI requirements can make better-informed storage decisions with the 2026 Strategic Landscape for Enterprise AI Storage Systems,” said Omar Barraza, analyst and consultant, Network Storage Advisors. “The fact based perspectives and industry-expert insights supplement essential market research and guide solution comparisons.”

The Enterprise AI Storage Systems covered in this Strategic Landscape report include:

AFF A90 by NetApp
AFX A1K by NetApp
AI400X3 by DDN
Ceres by Vast Data
FlashBlade //S500 by Everpure
GreenLake for File Storage by HPE
Hitachi Content Software for File 31116 by Hitachi Vantara
PowerScale F710 by Dell
Storage Scale System 6000 by IBM
WEKApod by Weka

Other 2026 Strategic Landscape reports are planned for enterprise cyberstorage, enterprise hybrid multicloud storage, enterprise unified storage, and enterprise and cloud memory.