Leader: Nutanix

Nutanix won the gold medal in execution on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software while ranking second in vision. The San Jose, Calif.-based company provides HCI software and data services for on-premises and public cloud. Nutanix’s software is supported on Nutanix NX and specific Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lenovo, and Fujitsu hardware offerings, as well as on third-party servers and bare-metal Amazon EC2 instances. The company has expanded its unified storage capabilities to include ransomware signatures, data age analytics and tiering to S3-compatible object storage, and added disaster recovery (DR) replication of file shares.

Strength: Gartner said its clients express “high satisfaction” with Nutanix’s software breadth and depth along with consistency of support services, thus leading to strong customer loyalty. Nutanix also provides a unified platform for multiple workloads and data services.

Weakness: Nutanix HCI might not be a cost-effective solution for deployments that don’t require advanced functionalities or are not leveraging the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor, according to Gartner. Customer traction for Nutanix Clusters public cloud is still modest.