Storage—Cloud
Winner:
IBM Cloud Object Storage
While aimed at organizations looking to store massive amounts of data in public cloud environments—up to exabyte scale—IBM Cloud Object Storage has expanded its capabilities over the past year to serve organizations that are looking to start at a smaller scale, with a 72- TB starting object storage configuration. The solution offers impressive durability and availability, along with meeting crucial compliance standards. IBM Cloud Object Storage also stands out with a large number of certified solutions—77—that can be integrated together with it, as well as by offering 10 percent less storage overhead in standard configurations.
Finalists:
Infinidat Neutrix Cloud
With its Neutrix Cloud block and file storage-as-a-service, Infinidat offers multi-cloud and hybrid cloud flexibility—supporting Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and VMware Cloud on AWS—along with strong availability and features such as InfiniSnap snapshot integration.
Qumolo QF2
Qumolo QF2 offers easy scaling of data across on-premises environments and Amazon Web Services, bringing file-based data with billions of objects to the cloud. The solution is built on Qumolo’s cross-cluster replication technology, which allows data to be moved where it is needed, as it is needed.
