A schedule of events for Insight Jam LIVE on December 8 (formerly BUDR Insight Jam), the annual element of Solutions Review’s Insight Jam, an always-on community for enterprise technology end-users, experts, and solution providers.

What is Insight Jam?

Think of the Insight Jam as a continuous, ongoing, interactive tech event.

The Insight Jam will always be here when you need answers to the questions that matter to your organization and your career. We’ve partnered with the leading industry experts, thought leaders, and analysts to live-stream a never-ending collection of Roundtable Events, Breakout Sessions, and Expert Podcasts.

And Insight Jam is built on a community platform that powers unlimited discussions, posts, and polls that will bring you deeper into the enterprise technology conversation.

Your Insight Jam journey starts here and starts now. We encourage you to dive in, explore, share, and engage. Let’s challenge ideas, bring new perspectives and elevate our knowledge together.

Join the Fastest-Growing Enterprise Tech Software End-User Community

Solutions Review is the largest software buyer and practitioner community on the web. Our Universe of Influence reach is more than 7 million business and IT decision-makers, as well as C-suite and other top management professionals. Our readers primarily use us as an enterprise technology news source and trusted resource for solving some of their most complex problems.

Our collection of vendor-agnostic buyer’s resources helps buyers and practitioners during the research and discovery phase of a buying cycle. This critical stage of information gathering is where buyers narrow down the field of solution providers to a short-list they plan to engage. The mission of Solutions Review is to make it easier for buyers of business software to connect with the best providers.

Event Details: Insight Jam LIVE on December 8, 2023

11:00 AM: Executive Roundtable: The Convergence of Storage & Security: Key Implications featuring panel moderator Doron Youngerwood on LinkedIn and YouTube

12:00 PM: Executive Roundtable: Ransomware-Proofing Data Protection & Storage Environments featuring panel moderator Demetrius Malbrough, as well as Chris Marshall and Dr. Niraj Tolia on LinkedIn and YouTube

1:00 PM: Executive Roundtable: Best Practices for Governing Cloud Migration & Compliance featuring panel moderator David Loshin on LinkedIn and YouTube

2:00 PM: Executive Roundtable: Security, Compliance, and Privacy for Data Teams & Platforms (presented by Satori) featuring panel moderator David Loshin on LinkedIn and YouTube

And that’s not all: Register for Insight Jam (free) to gain early access to all the exclusive 2024 enterprise tech predictions, best practices resources, and DEMO SLAM videos!

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Data Protection Demo Day Q1 2023 will feature live product demonstrations from leading enterprise storage and data protection vendors Arcserve and VAST Data.

What is Data PDemo Day?

Data Protection Demo Day for Q1 2023 is an exclusive virtual event featuring an inside look at the technologies of prominent enterprise storage and data protection solution providers. Solutions Review is hosting this online event as a way to present the latest data protection tools from the comfort and safety of your own desk, and the best part? It’s free to attend!

Join the largest data protection end-user community

Solutions Review Data Protection is the largest enterprise storage, backup, and recovery software buyer and practitioner community on the web. Our Universe of Influence reach is more than 7 million business and IT decision-makers, as well as C-suite and other top management professionals. Our readers primarily use us as an enterprise technology news source and trusted resource for solving some of their most complex problems.

Our Expert Insights Series resources are designed to provide forward-thinking analysis that helps business software practitioners and buyers remain on-trend, offer best practices for successful implementation, deployment, and piloting, and provide decision support during product/vendor evaluations. Solutions Review’s collection of vendor-agnostic buyer’s resources also aims to help data protection practitioners during the research and discovery phase of a buying cycle.

Featured Solution Providers

Arcserve offers several different backup products, including Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP), Arcserve Replication and High Availability, Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct, UDP Cloud Hybrid, and a legacy offering. UDP provides comprehensive Assured Recovery for virtual and physical environments with a unified architecture, backup, continuous availability, migration, email archiving, and an easy-to-use console. The product enables organizations to scale their IT environments easily while delivering against recovery point and recovery time objectives, on-prem, or in the cloud.

VAST Data has developed the first all-flash storage platform that transforms the economics of flash storage in order to make flash infrastructure affordable for all classes of data, effectively making the hard drive and storage tiering obsolete. VAST’s platform is applied across a range of industries, offers next-generation life science advancements, and helped financial services organizations to stabilize the economy during the coronavirus outbreak.

FAQ

What: Solutions Review’s Data Demo Protection Day, Q1 2023

When: Thursday, March 30, 2023, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Eastern

Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more detail)

Register for Data Protection Demo Day FREE

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Solutions Review is announcing the release of its new 2023 Buyer’s Guide for Enterprise Data Storage in an attempt to help organizations select the best software.

Solutions Review is releasing its newly updated 2023 Buyer’s Guide for Enterprise Data Storage to assist organizations during the research and discovery phase of buying business software. Gathered via a meta-analysis of available online materials, Solutions Review editors compile each Buyer’s Guide via research, analyst reports, conversations with subject matter experts and vendor representatives, and examining product demonstrations.

Top providers highlighted include: AWS, Cloudian, Cohesity, Continuity Software, DataDirect Networks, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Infinidat, Inspur, NetApp, Nutanix, Pure Storage, Qumulo, Rackspace, Red Hat, Scality, Seagate, SUSE, Violin Systems, and Western Digital.

Solutions Review is a collection of business software news and resource sites that aggregates, curates, and creates the leading content to connect buyers and sellers. Over the past six years, Solutions Review has launched 20 distinct and category-specific Buyer’s Guide sites for technologies ranging from Cybersecurity to Big Data and WorkTech, as well as Identity and Access Management, Endpoint Security, Data Analytics and Data Management, Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Process Management, and Enterprise Cloud and Network Monitoring.

In addition to the 2023 Buyer’s Guide for Enterprise Data Storage, readers are encouraged to view research in other related Solutions Review coverage areas:

• Buyer’s Guide for Disaster Recovery as a Service
• Buyer’s Guide for Data Protection Software
• Buyer’s Guide for Backup and Disaster Recovery
• Buyer’s Guide for Enterprise Data Storage

Solutions Review also drastically increased its presence in the virtual events space in 2022. Headlined by the Solution Spotlight series and our popular Demo Days, Solutions Review is emerging as a major multimedia influencer in enterprise technology.

Nearly 10 million technology professionals will use Solutions Review to help them evaluate business software this year. Solutions Review is a vendor-agnostic resource that does not endorse any individual product or service.

Download Solutions Review’s 2023 Buyer’s Guide for Enterprise Data Storage.

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Solutions Review’s Data Storage to Watch is an annual listing of solution providers we believe are worth monitoring. Companies are commonly included if they demonstrate a product roadmap aligning with our meta-analysis of the marketplace. Other criteria include recent and significant funding, talent acquisition, a disruptive or innovative new technology or product, or inclusion in a major analyst publication.

The most successful data storage vendors in the market have a broad geographic scale regarding data centers and support staff, deliver software-based infrastructure as a complete set of services that have increasingly been used with both IaaS and PaaS offerings, and have services that can support a wide range of workloads. Concerning object storage and distributed file systems, organizational culture and sensitivity to security and governance mandates are the major factors enterprises consider when selecting a solution. 

These data storage Vendors to Watch have met at least two of our five points of inclusion and represent to some degree the evolution of the marketplace. It’s in that spirit we turn our attention to the immediate future. Providers are listed in alphabetical order. Provider names and logos are linked so you can learn more.

Backblaze

Organizations around the world choose Backblaze to solve for their use cases while improving their cloud OpEx vs. Amazon S3 and others. Grow on durable by design storage, with predictability regardless of data set size or frequency of uploads and downloads. Optimize for data mobility, performance, and cost, while avoiding vendor lock-in by supplementing your stack with Backblaze B2.

Continuity Software

Continuity Software offers protection against ransomware groups which are now beginning to target data backup and storage systems. Its flagship offering, Continuity StorageGuard, is unique because many other providers don’t cover these valuable infrastructure layers. StorageGuard helps organizations protect valuable data and ensures maximum data recoverability. Continuity’s vulnerability capabilities show all security misconfigurations, automatically prioritized by business impact, and with clear remediation guidelines. 

Datadobi

Datadobi offers an unstructured data management solution that brings order to heterogeneous unstructured storage and hybrid-cloud environments via two offerings: StorageMAP and DobiMigrate solutions. Datadobi allows customers to go beyond data stored to data managed both on-premises and in the cloud. They help enterprises manage unstructured data growth through visualization, organization, and action in a single pane of glass.

OpenDrives

OpenDrives offers a suite of enterprise-scale, software-defined storage solutions. The product is built for demanding workflows in media, healthcare, and enterprise IT industries. OpenDrives is designed to match individual organization needs on-prem and in the cloud as well. Headquartered in Los Angeles, OpenDrives was founded in 2011 by media and entertainment post-production professionals. The company’s new CEO is Izhar Sharon (former IBM).

Wasabi

Wasabi provides the benefits of cloud object storage, offering your backups unlimited storage capacity as well as predictable pricing with no fees for egress or API requests. Whether you need a second copy in the cloud, off-site disaster recovery, an active and accessible data archive, or long-term storage, Wasabi’s breakthrough price-performance makes it an easy process.

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A schedule of events for Solutions Review’s 2022 BUDR Insight Jam, a community web event for enterprise technologists. This year’s event theme is Challenges and Opportunities in Cloud Data Protection, Enterprise Backup, and Disaster Recovery.

What is the BUDR Insight Jam?

The BUDR Insight Jam is a data protection community web event. Solutions Review editors are bringing the best and brightest minds in the industry together for a one-day social media gathering. Participants will include industry analysts, experts, influencers, practitioners, and software solution providers under the hashtag #BUDRInsightJam.

This year Solutions Review is doubling down on its popular Expert Panel segments to meet the demand for what its editors do best; bring industry experts together to publish the web’s leading content for enterprise technologists.

Join the largest data protection software buyer and practitioner community

Solutions Review Backup, Recovery & Storage is the largest software buyer and practitioner community on the web. Our Universe of Influence reach is more than 7 million business and IT decision-makers, as well as C-suite and other top management professionals. Our readers primarily use us as an enterprise technology news source and trusted resource for solving some of their most complex problems.

Our collection of vendor-agnostic buyer’s resources help backup and disaster recovery buyers and practitioners during the research and discovery phase of a buying cycle. This critical stage of information gathering is where buyers narrow down the field of solution providers to a short-list they plan to engage. The mission of Solutions Review is to make it easier for buyers of BUDR software to connect with the best providers.

Event Details

Uncover insights personalized to your interests. From analysts to IT and the Public Sector, there is sure to be something for everyone. Solutions Review editors will be breaking the web event into three main tracks so you can find the insights that are best for you:

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Advice for backup, disaster recovery, and data protection software buyers featuring 16 expert insights

11:00 AM: Executive Roundtable: Challenges and Opportunities in Cloud Data Protection featuring panel moderator Chris Marshall and Doug Neumann on LinkedIn and YouTube

Moderator: Chris Marshall, Verified Backups LLC

Chris Marshall has been developing data-driven solutions for companies of all sizes for 30 years. He specializes in automating workflows, saving companies time and payroll expenses. He started Verified Backups two years ago to address the issues around backup failure due to a lack of testing. Chris has lived in St. Louis his whole life and is happily married with 5 adult children and one grandson.

Doug Neumann, Arpio

Doug Neumann is the founder and CEO of Arpio, where his team is building the next generation of disaster recovery solutions focused on the needs of cloud-based workloads.  Prior to Arpio, Doug served stints at Microsoft and Bandwidth where he led the development and operations of SaaS solutions running on the Azure and AWS clouds.

Adrian Moir, Quest Software

Adrian Moir is the Senior Product Manager and Technology Strategist for Quest Software and has a background in electrical; and electronic engineering. In recent years, Adrian has been working within the Information and Systems Management business at Quest with a focus on Data Protection products, driving the technology portfolio strategy and working as a product evangelist.

Claude Mandy, Symmetry Systems

Claude Mandy is the Chief Evangelist of Data Security at Symmetry Systems, encouraging customers to better understand and protect data objects, identities, and applications in a hybrid cloud environment. Prior to Symmetry, Mandy was a Senior Director Analyst at the analyst firm Gartner responsible for covering a variety of topics across security, risk management, and privacy.

William Bush, Catalogic

William is passionate about all things tech and has been working in the IT industry now for over 15 years. During that time, William has developed and delivered cloud-native, virtualisation, storage, big data and data protection services and solutions to over 200 SMB and enterprise organisations worldwide. Outside of work, William is a family man with a wife and three children.

Chris Plescia, Aware

Chris Plescia is the Chief Technology Evangelist at Aware, where he helps customers optimize collaboration environments, minimize compliance and security risk, and capture employee insights. Recognized as a forward-thinking people leader and transformation agent with over 33 years of experience, Chris is known for his energy and ability to move organizations forward via technical innovation.

12:00 PM: Executive Roundtable: The State of Data Privacy: Tools and Practice – featuring panel moderator David Loshin on LinkedIn and YouTube

Moderator: David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity, Inc.

Recognized worldwide as an information management thought leader, David has popularized best practices for business intelligence, data governance, performance computing, master data management, predictive analytics, and data quality. David is a monthly columnist for TechTarget and is a frequent presenter at The Data Warehousing Institute World Conferences, Enterprise Data World, the Data Governance and Information Quality conferences, as well as web-based seminars.

Saimon Michelson, CTERA

Saimon Michelson is Chief Architect at CTERA. He has a BSc in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, magna cum laude. He is a recognized expert in the relationships between cloud, storage, and information security. Saimon is experienced in Python, Java web (JS, HTML, CSS) and mobile development, as well as Unix and Linux Shell Scripting. He has experience with operating systems Windows, Linux, and Solaris.

Dan Benjamin, Dig Security

Dan Benjamin is the co-founder and CEO of Dig Security. With over a decade of industry experience in both startups and corporates, Dan has led tech teams, built and maintained solutions that supported massive scale, sold solutions to enterprise customers of all sizes, designed products in various industries, and raised funds from high-profile investors.

Sophie Stalla-Bourdillion, Immuta

Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon is Senior Privacy Counsel and Legal Engineer at Immuta, where she works on analyzing and developing solutions to support smart data governance and risk assessment within data analytics environments. Sophie is also a Professor in Information Technology Law & Data Governance at the University of Southampton, where she co-directs the Web Science Institute and conducts interdisciplinary research in the fields of privacy, data protection, data sharing, and data governance.

Justin Beals, Strike Graph

Justin is the Co-Founder & CEO of Strike Graph, a security compliance company, which he incubated at Madrona Venture Labs in early 2020. As a serial entrepreneur with expertise in AI, cybersecurity and governance, he started Strike Graph to eliminate the confusion related to cybersecurity audit and certification processes. He likes making arcane cybersecurity standards plain and simple to achieve.

Subbiah Sundaram, HYCU

Subbiah Sundaram is the SVP, Products at HYCU. Subbiah spearheads product management, alliances, sales engineering, and customer success with more than 20 years of experience delivering best-in-class multi- and hybrid-cloud data protection and on-premises solutions. A Kellogg Management School MBA graduate, Subbiah has worked with leading companies such as EMC, NetApp, Veritas, BMC, CA, and DataGravity.

12:30 PM – 4:30 PM: Best practices segment for data storage and business continuity practitioners featuring 16 expert insights

1:00 PM: Executive Roundtable: The Evolution of Enterprise Data Storage: Past, Present, and Future – featuring panel moderator Demetrius Malbrough on LinkedIn and YouTube

Moderator: Demetrius Malbrough, Data Protection Gumbo

Demetrius Malbrough has accumulated a “gumbo” of experience throughout his 22+ year tech career and is passionate about being an influencer and marketing thought leader in the Backup & Recovery industry. He is the founder of the Data Protection Gumbo podcast, creator of the Backup & Recovery Professionals LinkedIn group, and currently seeking a Technical Evangelist or Technical Marketing position.

Eric Herzog, Infinidat

Prior to joining Infinidat, Herzog was CMO and VP of Global Storage Channels at IBM Storage Solutions, where he was responsible for worldwide product marketing and management for IBM’s storage systems, software-defined storage, hyperconverged infrastructure, and global storage channels. Herzog’s executive leadership experience also includes: CMO and Senior VP of Alliances for all-flash storage provider Violin Memory.

Doron Youngerwood, Continuity Software

Doron is an avid storage and backup security advocate. Alongside continuous research of storage security, threat landscape, and market maturity analysis, he is also engaged in writing, public speaking, and information exchanged with global enterprises. Doron bridges the worlds of storage and security, spending time educating CISOs and information security practitioners on the importance of storage, backup and data protection and running the flagship video series, CISO Point of View.

Ahsan Siddiqui, Arcserve

Ahsan Siddiqui is the Director of Product Management at Arcserve. He’s been in the industry for 17 years, working with partners and customers globally to deliver products & solutions to manage, protect and recover data workloads. Having started his career as a Certified Ethical Hacker & an IT/Security administrator, Ahsan has spent a long time in the data protection industry supporting, building, implementing, and planning solutions for disaster recovery.

Subbiah Sundaram, HYCU

Subbiah Sundaram is the SVP, Products at HYCU. Subbiah spearheads product management, alliances, sales engineering, and customer success with more than 20 years of experience delivering best-in-class multi- and hybrid-cloud data protection and on-premises solutions. A Kellogg Management School MBA graduate, Subbiah has worked with leading companies such as EMC, NetApp, Veritas, BMC, CA, and DataGravity.

Justin Emerson, Pure Storage

Justin Emerson is a Technical Evangelist at Pure Storage focused on the FlashBlade product portfolio. He joined Pure in 2020 as a FlashBlade Data Architect for the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, he worked at storage-focused reseller partners for more than a decade. Justin focuses on delivering compelling narratives around how FlashBlade is unique to the industry.

2:00 PM: Executive Roundtable: Data Access vs. Compliance and the Future of Cloud Data protection – featuring panel moderator Demetrius Malbrough and Mark Diamond on LinkedIn and YouTube

Moderator: Demetrius Malbrough, Data Protection Gumbo

Demetrius Malbrough has accumulated a “gumbo” of experience throughout his 22+ year tech career and is passionate about being an influencer and marketing thought leader in the Backup & Recovery industry. He is the founder of the Data Protection Gumbo podcast, creator of the Backup & Recovery Professionals LinkedIn group, and currently seeking a Technical Evangelist or Technical Marketing position.

Mark Diamond, Contoural

Mark Diamond is CEO of Contoural, the largest independent provider of Records & Information Management and Litigation Readiness Consulting Services. He is also Founder and program administrator of the Association of Corporate Counsel Data Steward program, the industry-leading law firm and legal service provider information security assessment, benchmark and accreditation program.

Ajay Patel, Immuta

Ajay Patel is the Growth Product Manager for Immuta. He is a data leader with a robust technology and business background. Ajay has extensive experience building large scale and efficient products, systems, teams, and processes for growth and optimization. Before Immuta, Ajay spent eight years at EDB.

Ben Herzberg, Satori

Ben Herzberg: Ben is an experienced hacker, developer and book author. Ben is experienced in endpoint security, behavioral analytics, application security, and data security. Ben filled roles such as the CTO of Cynet, and Director of threat research at Imperva. Ben is the Chief Scientist for Satori, streamlining data access and security with DataSecOps.

Dave Bermingham, SIOS Technology

Dave Bermingham is Director of Customer Success at SIOS Technology. He is recognized within the technology community as a high-availability expert and has been honored to be elected a Microsoft MVP for the past 12 years: 6 years as a Cluster MVP and 6 years as a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP. Dave holds numerous technical certifications and has more than thirty years of IT experience.

Rob Peterson, Infrascale

Rob Peterson is the CEO of Infrascale. Prior to joining Infrascale, Rob was a General Partner at private investment firm Route 66, and managed credit-focused private investments, including structured debt and forward purchase commitments, and private equity. Rob holds a BS in Accounting and International Finance from American University and an MBA from the University of Maryland College Park.

4:30 PM – 8:30 PM: Industry trends and predictions for 2023 featuring expert insights

Why Participate?

Wondering what’s in it for you? Join us for the BUDR Insight Jam to get advice on data management and analytics software buying, best practices for piloting new and emerging technologies, and find out what the future will bring. It’s also going to be a top-notch networking event featuring many of the foremost thought leaders in the field.

FAQ

What: The 4th-annual Solutions Review BUDR Insight Jam

When: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 from 8:30 AM to 8:30 PM Eastern

Where: Twitter (using the hashtag #BUDRInsightJam), YouTube, LinkedIn

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Cloudian

Cloudian is an independent provider of object storage systems, offering S3 compatibility along with a partnership ecosystem. The vendor’s flagship solution, HyperStore, provides scalability, flexibility, and economics within the data center. Additionally, Cloudian’s data fabric architecture allows enterprises to store, find, and protect object and file data across sites. These processes can take place both on-prem and in public clouds within a single, unified platform. In 2020, Cloudian HyperStore was recognized as a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.

The top new features in the latest release of HyperIQ include:

• Cross-region Replication Monitoring: Ensure reliable completion of data replication with full-stack monitoring of the system environment, including tracking of network traffic and performance between replicated HyperStore clusters.
• Federated Management: Manage multiple clusters from a single HyperIQ management system in a single virtual machine.
• Ransomware Protection: Obtain transaction details regarding storage objects that have been locked for ransomware protection, enabling businesses to identify unauthorized attempts to delete objects.
• Single Sign-on: Enable anyone with a corporate account and appropriate privileges to access HyperIQ and the information it provides.

In a press statement, Jon Toor, chief marketing officer at Cloudian, said, “today’s modern storage infrastructure is increasingly distributed across geographically dispersed data centers, both on-premises and in public clouds, HyperIQ provides the comprehensive view of this geo-distributed storage and related networking infrastructure, and today’s announcement gives enterprises additional tools for efficiently, cost-effectively, and securely managing it.”

To learn more about Cloudian, click here.

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The editors at Solutions Review highlight the key takeaways of Gartner’s 2021 Critical Capabilities for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.

Analyst house Gartner, Inc. has released its 2021 Critical Capabilities for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, companion research to the popular Magic Quadrant report. Used in conjunction with the Magic Quadrant, the Critical Capabilities report is an additional resource that can assist buyers of distributed file systems and object storage platforms in finding the products that best fit their organizations.

Gartner defines Critical Capabilities as “attributes that differentiate products/services in a class in terms of their quality and performance.” Gartner rates each vendor’s product or service on a five-point (five points being best) scale in terms of how well it delivers each capability. Critical Capabilities shows you which products are best for each use case and includes a comparison graph for each, along with in-depth descriptions of the various points of comparison.

The study highlights 17 vendors Gartner considers most significant in this software sector and evaluates them against eight critical capabilities in seven use cases prevalent in the space, including:

• Analytics
• Archiving
• Backup
• Hybrid Cloud Storage
• Cloud-Native Applications
• Cloud IT Operations
• Commercial High-Performance Computing (HPC)

The editors at Solutions Review have read the report, available here, and pulled out three key takeaways.

Public Cloud Integration Capabilities are Improving

According to Gartner, unstructured data storage vendors are continuously enhancing and optimizing their public cloud integration capabilities. In doing so, these vendors are simplifying the extended use for hybrid cloud storage use cases. Additionally, with respect to hybrid cloud storage, Gartner recommends that Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) leaders should enable hybrid cloud storage to address use cases including disaster recovery, burst for capacity, and burst for processing by shortlisting vendors with the ability to integrate with the public cloud.

Top scorers for the hybrid cloud storage use case include Scality, Qumulo, and IBM.

The Feature Sets of Distributed File Systems and Object Storage Tools are Merging

As the distributed file systems and object storage markets merge, so too have the use cases. Starting with this Critical Capabilities report, Gartner has combined the evaluation of these products into a single report. This decision reflects current vendor offerings and products adopted by I&O teams. While in the early years of object storage, there were distinct features offered compared to distributed file systems, now the difference in capabilities addressing unstructured data challenges between object storage and file systems are minimal.

New capabilities that have emerged as a result of this market change include metadata analysis and tagging; life cycle management of data from placement to tiering; ransomware detection and protection; and hybrid cloud connectivity.

IBM Ranked Top 3 in Six-Out-of-Seven Use Cases

IBM’s COS or Spectrum Scale solutions were ranked within the top three spots in almost all of the use cases in this year’s report. Spectrum Scale claimed top spots in Analytics and Commercial HPC use cases, while COS ranked highly in Archiving, Hybrid Cloud Storage, Cloud-Native Applications, and Cloud IT Operations. IBM COS differentiates itself from other products in this research by being the only tool that is also the underlying storage for a major public cloud: IBM Cloud. Additionally, IBM Spectrum Scale boasts a highly scalable throughput, delivering 2.5 TB per second sequential and 2.2 TB per second random read/write bandwidth in production.

Recent notable updates to COS include object tagging, support of 18 TB SMR drives, and enhancements to object life cycle management and performance through Zone Slice Storage.

Read the 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.

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VAST Data

VAST Data has developed the first all-flash storage platform that transforms the economics of flash storage in order to make flash infrastructure affordable for all classes of data, effectively making the hard drive and storage tiering obsolete. VAST’s platform is applied across a range of industries, offers next-generation life science advancements, and helped financial services organizations to stabilize the economy during the coronavirus outbreak. Last year, VAST also raised $100 million in Series C funding, led by Next47.

New systems management features include:

• Uplink Cloud Management: VAST Data’s Uplink enables users to monitor all their Universal Storage clusters anywhere in the world by accessing the same centralized portal that VAST’s Co-Pilot and support teams use to manage the fleet of Universal Storage systems.
  
• Data Flow Monitoring: Data Flows explain and visually display performance statistics through an easy-to-use interface and make it simple for administrators to drill down into specific flows.
• Simplified Capacity and Data Reduction Reporting: VASTOS version 4 offers new tools that help users visualize the consumption of both physical and logical capacity so they can be more intelligent about capacity planning and management.

In a media statement, Renen Hallak, co-founder and CEO of VAST, said, “data is the lifeblood of every organization, and providing fast, affordable, and safe access to that data is our mission. Our disaggregated and Shared Everything architecture is the foundation for all data within an organization. Now customers have the only platform they need for their modern application, including AI, big data, backup, containers, and beyond.”

These new features in VASTOS V4 make it safer and simpler for enterprises to end storage tiering and data management complexity.

To learn more about VAST Data, click here.

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The editors at Solutions Review highlight what’s changed since the last iteration of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage and provide an analysis of the new report.

Analyst house Gartner, Inc. has released its 2021 Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage. The researcher states that the term ‘primary storage’ covers “vendors that offer dedicated products or product lines for solid-state arrays (SSAs) or hybrid storage arrays (or both), and software-defined storage (SDS) software.” Hybrid storage arrays include solid-state drive (SSD) and hard-disk drive (HDD) configurations, while SSA products are solid-state, technology-based systems that cannot be combined or expanded with HDDs.

The main purpose of a primary storage product is to support response time and input/output per second (IOPS)-sensitive structured data workloads. Typical use cases for these products include mission-critical workloads, Oracle Databases and applications, SAP HANA, and in-house-developed transactional applications. Additional use cases include application consolidation, support for virtual environments, providing persistent storage for container environments, and cloud IT operations.

The adoption of SSAs has been steadily increasing over the years. However, the primary storage market faces obstacles, as users have accelerated their adoption of alternative tools, such as hyperconverged systems and the public cloud. Additionally, primary storage providers have continued to invest in software capabilities that deliver tighter integration with public cloud providers, mainly AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure. This reflects that storage systems are now being designed to handle data mobility to and from the public cloud, and to address use cases including backup to the cloud, storage tiering, disaster recovery to the public cloud, and hybrid cloud.

Gartner predicts that by 2025, over 40 percent of all on-prem IT storage administration and support activities will be replaced by Managed Storage as a Service, which is an increase from fewer than 5 percent in 2021. Additionally, the researcher expects that 30 percent of external enterprise storage arrays deployed to support primary storage workloads will adopt nonvolatile memory express over fabrics by 2025, compared to fewer than 5 percent in 2021. In terms of choosing a product, it’s recommended that preference be given to providers that deliver availability, efficiency, and performance guarantees.

In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of 13 providers that it considers most significant in the marketplace and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their Ability to Execute and their Completeness of Vision. The graph is divided into four quadrants, niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders. At Solutions Review, we read the report, available here, and pulled out the key takeaways.

Gartner adjusts its exclusion and inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants as software markets evolve. As a result, Zadara was added to this year’s report, while Oracle was dropped. Representative vendors in this year’s Magic Quadrant are DDN, Dell Technologies, Fujitsu, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Infinidat, Inspur, Lenovo, NetApp, Pure Storage, and Zadara.

The leader quadrant is the most densely populated this year, housing Pure Storage, NetApp, Dell Technologies, HPE, IBM, Huawei, Infinidat, and Hitachi Vantara. Pure Storage won out with regard to its ability to execute and completeness of vision this year. This place could be attributed to its product’s simplicity, as well as the fact that it offers deep integration at the application and container levels. NetApp is one of Pure’s closest competitors this year. The vendor offers a broad product portfolio with extensive NVMe support and products that appeal to both entry-level and enterprise-level global users. Dell Technologies, also placed close to those providers, offers PowerStore which is an appropriate tool for consolidating multiple mid-range hybrid storage arrays and older SSAs to simplify the storage infrastructure.

Also a leader this year, HPE recently extended its storage systems portfolio in a rebranding effort to include the new HPE Alletra 6000 and 9000 models, along with its HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage products. IBM’s leader status can be credited to the fact that it provides a single codebase that supports FlashSystem SSA, as well as hybrid array models that span the entry to the high-end primary storage price range. Additionally, Huawei’s AI-powered data management system delivers cross-stack management, visualization, workload simulation, and analysis to simplify infrastructure operations.

Rounding out this year’s leaders are Infinidat and Hitachi Vantara. Infinidat differentiates itself by offering comprehensive AIOps capabilities through a combination of a Neural Cache, an ML engine embedded in the system, and InfiniVerse, a SaaS-based platform that delivers predictive analytics and support capabilities. Finally, Hitachi Vantara’s Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)-based architecture simplifies management, which could be a contributing factor to the vendor’s leader status.

The challenger section of the graph is significantly less crowded, only holding three vendors. DDN is placed closest to the Y-axis, showing that it earned the strongest completeness of vision in this quadrant. DDN recently made progress in leveraging and streamlining core features and capabilities from its acquisitions into its Tintri business. Lenovo is also a challenger this year, likely in part because its XClarity Administrator centralized management system enables users to manage ThinkSystem servers and DE and DM Series storage arrays from a common console. The last challenger, Inspur possibly earned its challenger status because it supports all major hypervisors, container management platforms, and backup software.

There were no visionaries named this year, leaving only the niche players, Fujitsu and Zadara. Fujitsu’s ETERNUS mid-range systems for the DX and AF product lines are priced lower than the majority of its competitors in this report. Zadara is the only remaining niche player, as well as the only new vendor in this year’s report. The vendor’s exclusive focus on hosting providers and more than 300 managed service providers that can deliver strong multi-tenancy and low-latency performance could be the reason it was named a niche player.

Read Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage.

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Solutions Review is organizing the third annual BUDR Insight Jam for the month of December — a one-day community web event dedicated to raising awareness around best practices when evaluating, deploying, and using backup and disaster recovery solutions. Our editors will be sharing tips and expert insights throughout the day to help practitioners plan for the end of the year and prepare for 2022. Solutions Review will also be releasing its new 2022 Buyer’s Guide for Backup and Disaster Recovery platforms so tool-seekers can get a jump start on identifying which solutions best fit their use case.

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Our collection of vendor-agnostic buyer’s resources help backup and disaster recovery buyers and practitioners during the research and discovery phase of a buying cycle. This critical stage of information gathering is where buyers narrow down the field of solution providers to a short-list they plan to engage. The mission of Solutions Review is to make it easier for buyers of BUDR software to connect with the best providers.

Why participate in the Solutions Review BUDR Insight Jam?

Wondering what’s in it for you? Join us for the BUDR Insight Jam to get insight on backup and disaster recovery software buying, best practices for piloting new and emerging technologies, and find out what the future will bring. It’s also going to be a top-notch networking event featuring many of the foremost thought leaders in the field.

This forum is a unifying event for all those in the industry, and we welcome industry analysts, experts, influencers, authors, practitioners, solution providers, and end-users to weigh in. Set for Tuesday, December 7, 2021, Solutions Review will be sharing, posting, and tweeting actionable backup and disaster recovery best practices content using the hashtag #BUDRInsightJam. If you are interested in participating, here are a few ways you can be a part of the event:

• Provide us with an audio or video clip with advice to those considering a BUDR solution purchase
• Send us short-form product demos
• Participate in one of our discussion panels (as a speaker or a viewer)
• Use the hashtag #BUDRInsightJam and share helpful content to help build a community space dedicated to this day
• Predictions for 2022; what will next year bring in the space?
• Customer success stories using backup and disaster recovery platforms — be specific!
• General advice for those evaluating backup and disaster recovery tools

For more information on the 2021 Solutions Review BUDR Insight Jam, check out our video explaining it in detail:

How do I submit content for the BUDR Insight Jam?

• Written Content: Email to thanna@solutionsreview.com.
• Video Content: Email to jpaula@solutionsreview.com. 
• Secure your spot on a panel discussion here.
• All content can also be submitted at InsightJam.com. 

The deadline for submissions is November 24th. Stay tuned for details about our other Identity and Access Management, ERP, and Business Intelligence Insight Jams, set to begin on Monday, December 6th, 2021.

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