GigaOm Scale-Out Storage Report Redraws Vendor Landscape
Blocks&Files, Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
Research house GigaOm has reviewed 19 suppliers of scale-out file storage in a single report, including data protection, hyperconverged infrastructure, and parallel file systems suppliers alongside existing scale-out filer vendors.
The concept of combining data protection, HCI, parallel and scale-out file systems in a single report is somewhat contentious as these four unstructured data types are typically sold into different markets. For example, Rubrik's CloudData Management (CDM) is not usually found in the same customer bids as Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), Dell PowerScale, VDURA's PanFS, or BeeGFS's ThinkParQ. To that extent, this report seems peculiar.