The Leaders In Enterprise Storage in 2020
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>> Hey, how's it goin'? It's Keith Townsend from The CTO Advisor. I got the question yesterday, who are the leaders in enterprise IT storage. This question is being answered, I think, in a different way today in 2020 than it was just a couple of years ago. A couple of years ago I probably would have broke down who has the best de-dupe, who has the lowest latency, who's doin' NVMe over Fabrics, et cetera, these speeds and fees that really helped application performance.
But now we have server size storage things like Intel Optane Memory, 3D Xpoint, super fast NVME local PCIE drives that really help with application side performance in the data center. So this alleviates the need for speeds and fees on the shared storage network itself. We're building applications smarter. The question now becomes a question of data. We've talked about this before on the channel, but I live in a hybrid environment where I basically have multi cloud applications or data sets. I have software as a service in the form of HR applications, CRM, just the list goes on and on on the SAAS side of the house.
I have IAAS sitting out in the public cloud. Providers such as AWS, Google Compute, Azure, and then I have my private data center. And I'm sharing data across all of these environments. There is not a use case I don't believe where I'm isolating data sets in one environment. So the question is, of all of these providers, Netab, Pure, VMware, Nutanix, HPE, Dell EMC, Hitachi, IBM, et cetera. Who is solving this problem for me? Well, none of them are solving this problem for me today.
But, as far as who has the vision of solving these problems we look at players like Netab. Netab I think is leading the way in this conversation. Netapp is operating here in the data center with their Fowler and, NFS solution and block storage. They're here in all of the IAAS providers. And not so much here. They're creating what they're calling a data fabric. The ability to tie in your data operations from your data center and you IAAS providers and using these services natively in these clouds.
I can go to AWS, I can go to Assure, I can go to GCP and provision Netab storage by using a credit card and I can sync that storage with my data center assets. They're really not playing in SAAS yet, that I'm aware of. Then next up is probably HPE with their three part solution. Again, I can swipe a credit card and go into and use these services natively as I would in the cloud. But I think kind of close to both to Netapp, I mean to HPE is Dell EMC with their partnership with Faction.
Faction gives you kind of that VMware comfort of running application inside of your DC on top of VMware and then replicating that up to AWS or to CloudSimple inside of Google Compute and Assure to your VMware environment. So if your idea of storage, enterprise class storage is a VMware centric story Faction is leading that way. My friends at Datrium who have their DVX Solution that now also supports that VMC on AWS use case. But again, as I talk about leaders, at this point the leaders are the ones with the vision.
Netab has the aggressive vision I don't think customers have responded the way Netab thinks customers should have with this vision of Netab on tap storage everywhere. I'd love to hear your impressions. Whose leading the hybrid IT enterprise storage discussion? Is it one of these traditional vendors? Or is it a company like Microsoft with their replication services and this abstracted software to find opportunities to talk about replicating data across public and private cloud? Or is it AWS with Outpost? Are they the dark horse?
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