SMB External Storage Hardware: EMC

Channel Chief: Gregg Ambulos, Senior Vice President, Global Channel Sales, Operations

EMC racked up another product category win in this year's Annual Report Card with an overall score of 84.0 here. That was good enough to surpass rivals Datto and its overall score of 81.9, Buffalo Technology’s 74.7 and Dell's 71.7.

EMC won in both the product innovation and support criteria with average scores of 88.9 and 80.0, respectively. The company, in fact, pulled in scores above 90 in product quality/reliability, richness of product features/functionality, technical innovation, and product compatibility and ease of integration.

But Datto bested EMC in the partnership average score by 0.2 points, 82.5 to 82.3.