Networking and Scale-out Storage 2016 Brand Leader Survey

Mini-Report

Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report

This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the

independent, non-sponsored surveys covering six categories of brand

leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support

and Innovation–for thirteen classes of networking and scale-out storage.

Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please

contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.

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Table of Contents Networking and Scale-out Storage Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report, 2016

Brand Leader Survey Methodology Page 4

Brand Leader Voting Definitions Page 5

2016 Networking and Scale-out Storage Brand Leader Chart Page 6

List of Selected IT Professional Respondents Page 7

Respondent Title/Job Description Page 9

Respondent Data Center Environment Page 10

2016 Embedded Blade Server Networking Market Leader Bar Chart Page 12

2016 Enterprise Ethernet NIC Market Leader Bar Chart Page 13

2016 Ethernet Core Switch Market Leader Bar Chart Page 14

2016 Ethernet Network Monitoring Market Leader Bar Chart Page 15

2016 WAN Optimization Market Leader Bar Chart Page 16

2016 Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing Market Leader Bar Chart Page 17

2016 Ethernet Top of Rack Switch Market Leader Bar Chart Page 18

2016 Open Networking Switch (Bare Metal Switch) Market Leader Bar Chart Page 19

2016 Bare Metal Switch OS Market Leader Bar Chart Page 20

2016 Scale-out Object Storage Appliance Market Leader Bar Chart Page 21

2016 Scale-out Object Storage Software Market Leader Bar Chart Page 22

2016 Scale-out File Storage Market Leader Bar Chart Page 23

2016 Servers for Software Defined Storage Market Leader Bar Chart Page 24

2016 Bonus Question: Contributions to Innovation in Open Server Technology (2012-2016) Page 26

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Networking and Scale-out Storage Brand Leader Survey Methodology

• Brand Leader Reports are designed to measure the pulse of brand leadership in specific product categories using independent, non-sponsored surveys with at least 200 respondents.

• The Networking and Scale-out Storage surveys were conducted in March, 2016. – Respondents were solicited from over 1,000,000 members of 100+ online IT groups, and from the IT Brand

Pulse IT professional database. – Two hundred and five IT Pros completed this survey. – Responses were collected using an online survey engine.

• In each part, respondents were provided with a product category description, list of vendor choices

(plus an “Other” answer choice to add a vendor, if applicable), and were asked six questions:

1. Who do you perceive as the <product category> market leader?

2. Who do you perceive as the <product category> price leader?

3. Who do you perceive as the <product category> performance leader?

4. Who do you perceive as the <product category> reliability leader?

5. Who do you perceive as the <product category> service & support leader?

6. Who do you perceive as the <product category> innovation leader?

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Brand Leader Definitions

Networking & Scale out Storage 2016 Brand Leaders Voted by IT Pros

Ethernet Network Monitoring SolarWinds SolarWinds Cisco SolarWinds Cisco Cisco

Embedded Blade Server Networking HPE Dell HPE Cisco Cisco HPE

Enterprise Ethernet NICs Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel

Ethernet Core Switches Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco

Ethernet Top of Rack Switches Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco

Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing

Citrix Google Citrix Citrix Citrix Citrix

WAN Optimization Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed

Open Networking Switch Dell Dell Dell Dell Dell Dell

Bare Metal Switch OS Cumulus Cumulus Cumulus Cumulus Cumulus Cumulus

Scale-out File Storage EMC EMC EMC EMC Red Hat EMC

Scale-out Object Storage Appliance EMC EMC EMC EMC EMC EMC

Scale-out Object Storage Software IBM/

Cleversafe Red Hat

IBM/ Cleversafe

IBM/ Cleversafe

Red Hat IBM/

Cleversafe

Servers for Software Defined Storage Cisco Dell Cisco HPE Dell Super Micro

Contributions to Open Server Technology, 2012-2016

HPE

Selected Organizations Represented in the Surveys

Cox Enterprise

DAIWA Capital Markets

Daybreak Game (Sony Online Ent.)

Detroit Medical Center

Duke Univ. Research Institute

EDD (State of CA)

Emerson

Ernst & Young

ExxonMobil

Fed. Home Loan Bank

FedEx

Ford Motor Company

FuseFX

Gates

General Motors

Henry Ford Health System

HSSBC

ITG

J.P. Morgan-Chase

Kaspersky Lab

L.A. Co. Dept. of Health Services

Las Vegas-County Library District

LDS Church

20th Century Fox

Aetna

AF Group (Blue Cross-Blue Shield)

American Airlines

Apple Inc.

Assurant

AT&T

ATK

Averitt Express

Bank of America

Baylor College of Med

Belden

Bhabha Atomic Rsrch (BARC)

Boston Dynamics

BC Lottery Corp (BCLC)

CA Department of Insurance

Carnegie Mellon University

Chapman Univ/Dodge Film School

Children‘s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Christus Health

Chubb

CINECA

City of Los Angeles

LRZ

Macy‘s

MassIT (State of MA)

McAfee

Michael Kors

Milliman

MIT

Morgan Stanley

Nat'l Geospatial-Intellig. (NGA)

Nat'l Institute of Health (NIH)

Nationwide Insurance

NYC Housing Authority

Oppenheimer & Co.

Optum (United Health Group)

Pacific Northwest Nat‘l Lab

Premera Blue Cross

Prudential Insurance

Purdue University

Regus

REI

ROMEO HPC Center

Russell Investments

Seneca Gaming Corp (SGC)

Siemens

Smith & Nephew

Social Security Administration

Sony Pictures

Southwest Gas Corporation

Southwest Research Instit.(SwRI)

Thomson Reuters

SunEdison

Temco Services

US Securities & Exch. Comm.

UBS

UCLA

Unisys

UN Federal Credit Union (NFCU)

Universal Parks and Resorts

University Of IL at Chicago

University of Notre Dame

U.S. Dept. of Defense

USA ARDEC

USC Marshall School of Business

Verizon

vRad

Vonage

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Respondent Profiles

Respondent Title/Job Description:

VAR / OEM

Other

Server Administrator/Architect

Network Administrator/Architect

Storage Administrator/Architect

Executive/Management

Data Center Manager

IT Manager/Director

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Your environment is best described as:

Other

Public Cloud/Data Center Provider

Product Development

High performance computing data

center

Small-medium business data center

Enterprise data center

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Market Leaders

Market Leader Embedded Blade Server Networking

Cisco Dell Fujitsu HPE Huawei Lenovo Oracle Super Micro Other

Who do you perceive

as the market leader

for Embedded Blade

Server Networking?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Enterprise Ethernet NIC

Broadcom/Emulex Intel Mellanox QLogic Other

Who do you

perceive as the

market leader

for Enterprise

Ethernet NIC?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Ethernet Core Switch

Alcatel-Lucent

Arista Avaya Brocade Cisco Dell/Force10 ExtremeNetworks

HPE Huawei Juniper Other

Who do you

perceive as the

market leader

for Ethernet

Core Switch?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Ethernet Network Monitoring

BrocadeNetworkAdvisor

CA Spectrum Cisco NetFlow HPE NetworkNode

Manager i

IBM/Netcool/Precision

Kaseya NetScoutnGenius

SolarWinds Spiceworks Viavi/NetworkInstruments

Other

Who do you

perceive as the

market leader for

Ethernet Network

Monitoring?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader WAN Optimization

Who do you

perceive as the

market leader for

WAN Optimization?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing

Who do you

perceive as the

market leader for

Enterprise File

Synchronization &

Sharing?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Ethernet Top of Rack Switch

Who do you

perceive as the

market leader for

Ethernet Top of

Rack Switch?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Open Networking Switch (Bare Metal Switch)

Who do you perceive as

the market leader for

Open Networking Switch

(Bare Metal Switch)?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Bare Metal Switch OS

Arista - EOS Big Switch -

Switch Light OS

Cumulus -

Cumulus Linux

HPE - OpenSwitch Pica8 - PicOS Other

Who do you

perceive as the

market leader

for Bare Metal

Switch OS?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Scale-out Object Storage Appliance

Cloudian Coho Data DDN EMC Exablox HDS Huawei NEC NetApp PromiseTechnology

Quantum Other

Who do you perceive

as the market leader

for Scale-out Object

Storage Appliance?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Scale-out Object Storage Software

Who do you

perceive as the

market leader for

Scale-out Object

Storage Software?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Scale-out File Storage

Dell FluidFile

System

EMC Isilon HitachiNAS

Platform

HPEStoreAllStorage

HuaweiOceanStor

9000

IBMElastic

Storage

IBMSpectrum

MicrosoftSOFS

NetAppClustered

DataOntap 8.x

QuantumStorNext

Red HatStorageServer

ScaleLogic Scality SUSEEnterpriseStorage

Other

Who do you

perceive as the

market leader

for Scale-out

File Storage?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Servers for Software Defined Storage

Cisco UCS Dell HPE Lenovo Quanta Super Micro Other

Who do you

perceive as the

market leader for

Servers for Software

Defined Storage?

March 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Bonus Question

IT Pros were asked, “Who contributed most to innovation in OPEN SERVER technology over the last five years (2012-2016)?”:

Other

VMware

Red Hat

Quanta

Microsoft

IBM

HPE

Dell

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