Networking & Scale-out Storage 2017 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 survey covering six categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for twelve Networking & Scale-out Storage products. Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.

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March 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Table of Contents

Networking & Scale-out Storage Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report, 2017

Brand Leader Survey Methodology Page 4

Brand Leader Voting Definitions Page 5

2017 Networking & Scale-out Storage Brand Leader Survey Winners Chart Page 6

Respondent Title/Job Description Page 8

Respondent Data Center Environment Page 9

2017 Bare Metal Switch OS Market Leader Chart Page 11

2017 Embedded Blade Server Networking Market Leader Chart Page 12

2017 Enterprise Ethernet NICs Market Leader Chart Page 13

2017 Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing Market Leader Chart Page 14

2017 Ethernet Core Switches Market Leader Chart Page 15

2017 Ethernet Top of Rack Switches Market Leader Chart Page 17

2017 Open Networking (Bare Metal) Switch Market Leader Chart Page 18

2017 Scale-out Object Storage Appliance Market Leader Chart Page 19

2017 Scale-out Object Storage Software Market Leader Chart Page 20

2017 Scale-out File Storage Market Leader Chart Page 21

2017 Servers for Software-Defined Storage Market Leader Chart Page 22

2017 WAN Optimization Market Leader Chart Page 23

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Networking & 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 & Scale-out Storage brand leader survey was conducted in March, 2017. – 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 eleven IT Pros responded to this survey. – Responses were collected using an online survey engine.

• In each part, respondents were provided with a product category description, randomly-listed 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

2017 Networking & Scale-out Storage Brand Leaders Voted by IT Pros Survey conducted March, 2017

Bare Metal Switch OS Arista - EOS Arista - EOS Arista - EOS Arista - EOS Arista - EOS Arista - EOS

Embedded Blade Server Networking HPE Dell EMC HPE Cisco Cisco HPE

Enterprise Ethernet NICs Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel

Enterprise File Sync and Sharing Citrix Google Citrix Citrix Microsoft Citrix

Ethernet Core Switches Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco

Ethernet Top of Rack Switches Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco

Open Networking (Bare Metal) Switch Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC

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

Scale-out Object Storage Software Red Hat Red Hat IBM/Cleversafe Red Hat IBM/Cleversafe Red Hat

Scale-out File Storage NetApp ONTAP NetApp ONTAP NetApp ONTAP NetApp ONTAP NetApp ONTAP NetApp ONTAP

Servers for Software-Defined Storage Cisco UCS Dell Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

WAN Optimization Cisco Riverbed Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco

Respondent Profiles

Respondent Title/Job Description:

VAR/OEM

Other

Executive/Management

Server Administrator/Architect

Network Administrator/Architect

Storage Administrator/Architect

Data Center Manager

IT Manager/Director

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Your environment is best described as:

Other

Product Development

Public Cloud/Data Center Provider

Small-medium business data center

High performance computing data center

Enterprise data center

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Market Leaders

2017 Market Leader Bare Metal Switch OS

Arista - EOS Big Switch - SwitchLight OS

Cumulus - CumulusLinux

Pica8 - PicOS Other

March 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Bare Metal Switch OS?

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2017 Market Leader Embedded Blade Server Networking

Cisco Dell EMC Fujitsu HPE Huawei Lenovo Oracle Supermicro Other

March 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Embedded Blade Server Networking?

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2017 Market Leader Enterprise Ethernet NICs

Broadcom Cavium/QLogic Chelsio Intel Mellanox Solarflare Other

March 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Enterprise Ethernet NICs?

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2017 Market Leader Enterprise File Sync and Sharing

Accellion Box Citrix Dropbox Egnyte Google Huddle Intralinks Microsoft Thru Varonis WatchDox/

BlackBerry

Other

March 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Enterprise File Sync and Sharing?

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2017 Market Leader Ethernet Core Switch

March 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Ethernet Core Switch?

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2017 Market Leader Ethernet Top of Rack Switch

March 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Ethernet Top of Rack Switch?

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2017 Market Leader Open Networking (Bare Metal) Switch

Accton/Edgecore

AlphaNetworks

Dell EMC DeltaNetworks

Inc.

HPE InterfaceMasters

PenguinComputing

Quanta QCT Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for Open Networking (Bare Metal) Switch?

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2017 Market Leader Scale-out Object Storage Appliance

Cloudian Coho Data DDN Dell EMC Exablox HDS Huawei NEC NetApp Promise

Technology

Quantum Other

March 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Scale-out Object Storage Appliance?

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2017 Market Leader Scale-out Object Storage Software

March 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Scale-out Object Storage Software?

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2017 Market Leader Scale-out File Storage

Dell EMC

Fluid File

System

Hitachi

NAS

Platform

HPE

StoreAll

Storage

Huawei

OceanStor

9000

IBM

Elastic

Storage

IBM

Spectrum

Microsoft

SOFS

NetApp

ONTAP

Quantum

StorNext

Red Hat

Storage

Server

Scale

Logic

Scality SUSE

Enterprise

Storage

Other

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Scale-out File Storage?

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2017 Market Leader Servers for Software Defined Storage

Cisco UCS Dell HPE Huawei Inspur Lenovo Quanta Supermicro Other

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Servers for Software Defined Storage?

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2017 Market Leader WAN Optimization

Who do you perceive as the market leader for WAN Optimization?

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