Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Platforms
Vendors or products added in this year’s report may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
Vendors or products dropped from one year to the next may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
The PSP market has emerged at the convergence of two major enterprise storage market developments: the evolution of the PSP product market in conjunction with the demand for hybrid, multidomain platform-native storage services, extending on-premises services to public cloud, edge and colocation environments. The primary storage market is shifting from traditional IT budgeting processes and capex sourcing to cloud-like, platform-native service consumption, as well as metrics-based IT operating model SLA sourcing. Platform-native services and consumption-based STaaS offerings form the foundation for new primary storage demands as I&O leaders navigate beyond physical data center boundaries to include hybrid cloud operating model capabilities.
A: We review and adjust our inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants as markets change. As a result of these adjustments, the mix of vendors in any Magic Quadrant may change over time. A vendor's appearance in a Magic Quadrant one year and not the next does not necessarily indicate that we have changed our opinion of that vendor. It may be a reflection of a change in the market and, therefore, changed evaluation criteria, or of a change of focus by that vendor.