Networked 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 Networked 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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Table of Contents

Networked Storage Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report, 2017

Brand Leader Survey Methodology Page 4

Brand Leader Voting Definitions Page 5

2017 Networked Storage Brand Leader Survey Winners Chart Page 6

Respondent Title/Job Description Page 8

Respondent Data Center Environment Page 9

2017 Converged Network Adapter Market Leader Chart Page 11

2017 Deduplication Backup Target Appliance Market Leader Chart Page 12

2017 Enterprise HDD Market Leader Chart Page 13

2017 FCoE Switch Market Leader Chart Page 14

2017 Fibre Channel Disk Array Market Leader Chart Page 15

2017 Fibre Channel HBA Market Leader Chart Page 16

2017 Fibre Channel Switch Market Leader Chart Page 17

2017 iSCSI Disk Array Market Leader Chart Page 18

2017 Mid-Range Tape Drive Market Leader Chart Page 19

2017 NAS Disk Array Market Leader Chart Page 20

2017 Tape Library Market Leader Chart Page 21

2017 Unified SAN/NAS Disk Array Market Leader Chart Page 22

2017 Bonus Question: Deploying New Technology Page 24

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Networked 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 Networked Storage survey was conducted in January, 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 three 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, 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

2017 Networked Storage Brand Leaders Voted by IT Pros Survey conducted January, 2017

Converged Network Adapters Broadcom/

Emulex Cisco

Broadcom/ Emulex

Cisco Cisco Broadcom/

Emulex

Deduplication Backup Target Appliances Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC

Enterprise HDDs Seagate WD Seagate Seagate Seagate Seagate

FCoE Switches Cisco Brocade Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco

Fibre Channel Disk Arrays Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC

Fibre Channel HBAs Broadcom/

Emulex Broadcom/

Emulex Broadcom/

Emulex Broadcom/

Emulex Broadcom/

Emulex Broadcom/

Emulex

Fibre Channel Switches Brocade Brocade Cisco Brocade Brocade Brocade

iSCSI Disk Arrays Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC

Mid-Range Tape Drives Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum

NAS Disk Arrays NetApp NetApp NetApp NetApp NetApp NetApp

Tape Libraries Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum

Unified SAN/NAS Disk Arrays NetApp NetApp NetApp NetApp NetApp NetApp

Respondent Profiles

Respondent Title/Job Description:

VAR/OEM

Other

Executive/Management

Network Administrator/Architect

Server Administrator/Architect

Storage Administrator/Architect

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

2017 Market Leader Converged Network Adapters

Broadcom/Emulex Cavium/QLogic Cisco Intel Other

Who do you perceive

as the market leader

for Converged

Network Adapters?

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2017 Market Leader Deduplication Backup Target Appliances

Barracuda Dell EMC ExaGrid

Systems

Fujitsu HDS HPE IBM NEC NetApp Quantum Other

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Who do you perceive

as the market leader

for Deduplication

Backup Target

Appliances?

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2017 Market Leader Enterprise HDDs

HGST Seagate Toshiba Western Digital

(WD)

Other

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Who do you perceive

as the market leader

for Enterprise HDDs?

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2017 Market Leader FCoE Switches

Brocade Cisco Juniper Other

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Who do you perceive

as the market leader

for FCoE Switches?

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2017 Market Leader Fibre Channel Disk Arrays

DDN Dell EMC Fujitsu HDS HPE Huawei IBM NEC NetApp Oracle Seagate/Dot Hill

Other

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Who do you perceive

as the market leader

for Fibre Channel Disk

Arrays?

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2017 Market Leader Fibre Channel HBAs

ATTO Broadcom/Emulex Cavium/QLogic Other

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Who do you perceive

as the market leader for

Fibre Channel HBAs?

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2017 Market Leader Fibre Channel Switches

Brocade Cisco Other

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Who do you

perceive as the

market leader for

Fibre Channel

Switches?

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2017 Market Leader iSCSI Disk Arrays

Dell EMC HPE Huawei IBM NetApp Oracle Other

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Who do you perceive as

the market leader for

iSCSI Disk Arrays?

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2017 Market Leader Mid-Range Tape Drives

HPE IBM Oracle Overland

Storage

Quantum SpectraLogic Other

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Who do you perceive as

the market leader for

Mid-Range Tape Drives?

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2017 Market Leader NAS Disk Arrays

Dell EMC HDS HPE Huawei NetApp Oracle Other

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Who do you perceive as

the market leader for

NAS Disk Arrays?

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2017 Market Leader Tape Libraries

HPE IBM Oracle Overland

Storage

Qualstar Quantum Spectra

Logic

Other

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Who do you perceive as

the market leader for

Tape Libraries?

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2017 Market Leader Unified SAN/NAS Disk Arrays

Dell EMC Fujitsu HDS HPE Huawei IBM NetApp Oracle Other

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Who do you perceive

as the market leader

for Unified SAN/NAS

Disk Arrays?

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Bonus Question

My company plans on deploying the following new information technology in 2017 (select all that apply):

Other

NoSQL Databases

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Deep Learning

Big Data Analytics

Software Defined Storage

Software Defined Networking

All Flash Arrays

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