Flash Storage and NVMe 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 Flash Storage and NVMe products and charts from two Special Achievement in Innovation categories. 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

Flash Storage and NVMe Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report, 2017

Brand Leader Survey Methodology Page 4

Brand Leader Voting Definitions Page 5

2017 Flash Storage and NVMe Brand Leader Survey Winners Chart Page 6

Respondent Title/Job Description Page 8

Respondent Data Center Environment Page 9

2017 All Flash FC Array Market Leader Chart Page 11

2017 All Flash iSCSI Array Market Leader Chart Page 12

2017 All Flash NAS Array Market Leader Chart Page 13

2017 All Flash NVMeoF Storage Market Leader Chart Page 14

2017 All Flash Unified SAN/NAS Array Market Leader Chart Page 15

2017 Flash Cache Software Market Leader Chart Page 16

2017 Hybrid HDD/SSD Array Market Leader Chart Page 17

2017 NAND Flash Chips Market Leader Chart Page 18

2017 NVDIMM Market Leader Chart Page 19

2017 NVMeoF Network Adapter Market Leader Chart Page 20

2017 PCIe NVMe Card - SSD Market Leader Chart Page 21

2017 SSDs Market Leader Chart Page 22

2017 Special Achievement in Innovation: Contributions to End User Adoption of NVMe Technology (2013-2017) Page 24

2017 Special Achievement in Innovation: Driving the Next Wave of Flash Storage Technology Growth Page 25

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Flash Storage and NVMe 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 Flash Storage and NVMe brand leader survey was conducted in June, 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 eight 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 Flash Storage & NVMe Brand Leaders Voted by IT Pros Survey conducted June, 2017

All Flash FC Array Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Pure Storage

All Flash iSCSI Array Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC

All Flash NAS Array NetApp Dell EMC NetApp NetApp NetApp NetApp

All Flash NVMeoF Storage Micron Micron Micron Micron Micron Micron

All Flash Unified SAN/NAS Array Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC

Flash Cache Software Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Western Digital

Hybrid HDD/SSD Array Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC

NAND Flash Chips Samsung Samsung Samsung Samsung Samsung Samsung

NVDIMM Micron/Crucial Micron/Crucial Micron/Crucial Micron/Crucial Micron/Crucial Micron/Crucial

NVMeoF Network Adapters Mellanox Broadcom Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox

PCIe NVMe Card - SSDs Western Digital Intel Western Digital Western Digital Intel Western Digital

SSDs Samsung Samsung Samsung Samsung Samsung Samsung

Contributions to End User Adoption, NVMe Technology (2013-2017)

Dell EMC

Driving the Next Wave of Flash Storage Technology Growth

NVIDIA GPUs

Respondent Profiles Flash Storage and NVMe

2017 Brand Leader Survey

Respondent Title/Job Description:

VAR/OEM

Other

Executive/Management

Server Administrator/Architect

Network Administrator/Architect

Data Center Manager

Storage Administrator/Architect

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

Flash Storage and NVMe 2017 Brand Leader Survey

2017 Market Leader All Flash FC Arrays

Dell EMC HDS HPE Huawei IBM Kaminario NetApp/SolidFire

NimbusData

Oracle PureStorage

Tegile Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for All Flash FC Arrays?

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2017 Market Leader All Flash iSCSI Arrays

Dell EMC HPE NetApp/SolidFire Nimbus Data Pure Storage Other

June 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for All Flash iSCSI Arrays?

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2017 Market Leader All Flash NAS Arrays

Dell EMC HDS HPE NetApp Nimbus Data Oracle Tegile Other

June 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for All Flash NAS Arrays?

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2017 Market Leader All Flash NVMeoF Storage

Apeiron E8 Storage Micron X-IO Other

June 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for All Flash NVMeoF Storage?

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2017 Market Leader All Flash Unified SAN/NAS Arrays

Dell EMC HDS HPE NetApp Nimbus Data Oracle Tegile Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for All Flash Unified SAN/NAS Arrays?

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2017 Market Leader Flash Cache Software

Dell EMCXtremSW/FluidCache

IBMFlashCache

Intel CacheAcceleration

Software

NetAppFlexCache

Samsung/Proximal Data

AutoCache

WesternDigital

(SanDisk/

Flashsoft/IOTurbine)

Toshiba/OCZVXL

VMware FlashRead Cache

Other

June 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Flash Cache Software?

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2017 Market Leader Hybrid HDD/SSD Arrays

Dell EMC HDS HPE IBM NetApp Oracle Tegile Tintri Other

June 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Hybrid HDD/SSD Arrays?

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2017 Market Leader NAND Flash Chips

Intel Micron Samsung SK Hynix Toshiba Western Digital Other

June 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for NAND Flash Chips?

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2017 Market Leader NVDIMM

AgigA Tech Diablo

Technologies

HPE Micron/Crucial NetList Viking

Technology

Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for NVDIMM?

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2017 Market Leader NVMeoF Network Adapters

Broadcom Cavium/QLogic Chelsio Mellanox Other

June 2017 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as the market leader for NVMeoF Network Adapters?

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2017 Market Leader PCIe NVMe Card - SSD

Dell EMC HGST Huawei IBM Intel LiteOn Micron Western

Digital

(SanDisk/Fusion io)

Seagate Toshiba Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for PCIe NVMe Card - SSD?

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2017 Market Leader SSDs

HGST Intel Kingston LiteOn Micron Samsung Western

Digital

(SanDisk)

Seagate SK Hynix Toshiba Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for SSDs?

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Special Achievement in Innovation Flash Storage and NVMe

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Which company contributed most to end user adoption of NVMe technology during the last 5 years (2013-2017)?:

Other

Western Digital

Intel

Micron

NetApp

Samsung

Dell EMC

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Which company's technology will drive the next wave of growth for flash storage?:

Other

Google/Waymo

Self Driving Cars

IBM Watson Analytics

AWS Infrastructure as a Service

NVIDIA GPUs

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