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SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE VENDORS For all of the emphasis on speeds and feeds, storage at its core is very much dependent on software that for the most part runs on commodity hardware. The services that differentiate storage vendors from one another are defined almost purely by the software they use. Here are 50 software-defined storage vendors shaking up the market. 22dot6 Diamond Lauffin Founder, CEO 2 2 d o t 6 ’ s AC&NC Gene Leyzarovich President, CEO Advanced Amax Information Technologies Jean Shih President Amax manu- factures a wide range Cloudian Michael Tso Co-Founder, CEO C l oud i an deve l ops Croit Martin Verges Co-Founder, CEO Croit was
founded in 2017 to develop storage technology based on the open-source software-defined Ceph platform for implementing block, file and object stor- age on a single distributed cluster. Its technology, which runs on any stan- dard hardware, includes full life-cycle management and automated upgrading of all Ceph components.
high-performance stor- age software runs on commodity hardware that can scale out and scale up and be configured to meet specific performance, security and availability requirements. The com- pany earlier this year rolled out its 2U 12-bay high-performance 226- 212NSS hybrid NVMe/ SAS SSD and hard-drive storage system.
Computer & Network Corp., or AC&NC, is the developer of the JetStor series of storage appli- ances, providing SMBs to Fortune 500 enter- prises with NAS, SAN, cloud storage and hyper- converged infrastructure technology to serve file, block or unified storage requirements.
of industry-standard serv- ers and storage systems, along with many of the key components in those systems, particularly advanced motherboards. The company’s StorMax storage line includes subsystems ranging from low-latency NVMe sys- tems to density-optimized ones.
S3-compatible object storage systems, many of which are offered by technology partners including VMware, HPE, Lenovo, AWS and more. Cloudian’s technology scales from three nodes to hundreds, allowing systems to be the right size for any application or organizational need.
Ctera Networks
DataCore
DDN
Fujitsu
Dell Technologies
Oded Nagel CEO The Ctera Enterprise File Service
Dave Zabrowski CEO
Alex Bouzari Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO DDN offers
Takahito Tokita CEO, Chief Digital Transformation Officer
Michael Dell Founder, Chairman, CEO Dell is mov-
DataCore is a pioneer
ing beyond its traditional on-premises storage strength to focus more on managing cloud-based data. Dell is increasingly zeroing in on the cloud with its Apex Data Stor- age Services, which it describes as infrastruc- ture offerings that provide a single operational hub for managing private and public clouds and edge storage.
in developing software- defined storage technology to run on commodity hard- ware. Its offerings include SANsymphony for iSCSI or Fibre Channel SAN and hyperconverged infra- structure deployments, vFilo for distributed NAS and file servers, Swarm for scalable S3-compatible object storage and Bolt for stateful workloads on Kubernetes.
a comprehensive portfolio of technologies to power data-intensive workflows. The company’s enterprise division, built on its 2018 Tintri acquisition, pro- vides high-performance workload consolidation, intelligent automated storage for virtualized envi- ronments and AI-based analytics.
Platform centrally man- ages a businesss’ file storage, control and gov- ernance requirements. The platform includes a cloud-native global file system that unifies end- point, branch office and cloud file services to enable file storage, col- laboration, data protection and disaster recovery.
Fujitsu’s Eternus stor- age system line—which includes a wide range of hybrid systems and high- performance all-flash storage—and its Primeflex portfolio of hyperconverged infrastructure technologies can be paired with Fujitsu’s own data protection tech- nology to form a complete storage offering.
Hitachi Vantara Gajen
Huawei
IBM
Infinidat
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Antonio Neri President, CEO
Ren Zhengfei Director, CEO Huawei offers a wide range of all-flash
Arvind Krishna Chairman, CEO IBM’s storage
Phil Bullinger CEO
Kandiah CEO
Infinidat de ve l ops
HPE offers a wide range
Hitachi Van- tara has a
enterprise-grade tech- nology for data storage, data protection, business continuity and sovereign cloud storage, all based on a single fundamental technology foundation providing high availability, high performance and low total cost of ownership at multi-petabyte scale.
line card includes systems ranging from tape libraries to high-performance all- flash storage arrays, along with data management, protection and analytics software. Much of that software has traditionally been sold under the Spec- trum brand, but IBM as of early 2023 is phasing out that name in favor of IBM Storage.
of disk-based, flash- based and hybrid storage systems as well as hyper- converged infrastructure systems with related data services. HPE also continues to focus on developing HPE Green- Lake, its hybrid cloud platform, which includes data intelligence and security.
comprehensive portfolio of midrange, enterprise and virtual storage hard- ware and software, but the company is unique in that it has moved to combine that storage legacy with IoT and data analytics as a way to help businesses modernize their IT infrastructures.
and hybrid flash storage, scale-out storage, hyper- converged infrastructure and more. However, it remains virtually unknown in the U.S. where concerns about the company’s close relationship with China’s government have resulted in government and enter- prise customers deciding to not adopt its technology.
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