Thanks to you, our valued customers, partners and employees, we did it again! For the sixth consecutive year, Gartner® named Dell Technologies a Leader in its 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage¹ – a Leader every year since the commencement of this report.
We couldn’t have earned this recognition without our customers, channel and technology partners, and our engineers, sales and product management teams – a sincere thank you to all of you for helping us to deliver incredible results year after year in the distributed file and object storage category!
According to the Gartner research, Dell Technologies received the highest overall position for its ability to execute in the Leaders’ quadrant of the report.¹ Dell PowerScale, the world’s most flexible scale-out NAS solution², and ECS, our industry leading object storage platform, were evaluated for the Gartner report.
We here at Dell Technologies are honored to once again be recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. We believe this recognition is a testament of our commitment to provide cost-effective, scalable, flexible storage platforms that allow our customers to drive more innovation from their data to deliver better business outcomes, solve some of the world’s biggest challenges and improve lives.
According to the Gartner research, “By 2026, large enterprises will triple their unstructured data capacity stored as file or object storage on-premises, at the edge or in the public cloud, compared to 2021.¹” To address the evolving challenges concerning data storage and extracting value from data, enterprises need storage infrastructure that provides a supporting management and protection strategy that can handle the most demanding and critical data-rich file and object workloads of today and tomorrow.
Our powerful scale-out file storage and object storage solutions, PowerScale and ECS, provide simplified management, improved performance and flexibility – at the edge, the core or the cloud – to empower your organization to truly innovate with your data. Whether your goals are managing demanding GPU or public cloud workloads, retaining critical data at the lowest cost, or protecting data from cyberattacks, PowerScale and ECS make it easy to keep your data connected, managed, protected and secure, without creating storage silos – no matter where your data lives.
We continue to aim high in creating additional value for our valued customers. Recent enhancements to PowerScale and ECS that can help you be ready for any file or object-based data workload that comes next include:
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- PowerScale hybrid (H700 and H7000) and archive nodes (A300 and A3000) that deliver up to 75% more performance than comparable hybrid nodes³ and up to 2x more performance than comparable archive nodes.4
- A powered up all-flash line up with the all-NVMe PowerScale F900 , ECS EXF900 and an all-flash tier available with PowerScale for Google Cloud.
- PowerScale OneFS and DataIQ software enhancements expand storage management, performance monitoring, auditing and compliance capabilities to simplify file storage at scale.
- Enhancements to our API-integrated ransomware protection capabilities keep data protected from cyberattacks and offer cloud and on-premises deployment options.
If you are ready to drive more innovation with your organization’s unstructured data, contact us to learn how our Dell PowerScale and ECS storage systems can help address your unstructured data needs and establish an enduring strategic advantage for your business.
A complimentary copy of the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage is available here.
¹ Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage” by Julia Palmer, Jerry Rozeman, Chandra Mukhyala, Jeff Vogel, October 1, 2021.
² Based on Dell analysis, August 2021.
³ Based on Dell internal testing comparing PowerScale H7000 nodes with Isilon H5600 nodes, August 2021. Results may vary with different performance tools.
4 Based on Dell internal testing comparing PowerScale A300 nodes with Isilon A200 nodes, August 2021. Results may vary with different performance tools.
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