Pure Storage FlashBlade Leader in GigaOm Report for High-Performance Object Storage

Pure Storage, Inc., announced that FlashBlade was named a leader in the GigaOm Radar for High-Performance Object Storage, which analyzed the most effective object storage vendors across 13 key criteria and evaluation metrics.

According to the report, FlashBlade “is one of the most mature and solid solutions” in the storage space, helping enterprise customers of all sizes “meet their modern, unstructured storage requirements.” The report identifies the strongest features of FlashBlade including “multi-protocol support, complete end-to-end control of the technology stack, a rich feature set, and an easy-to-use interface.” Across criteria and evaluation metrics, FlashBlade was ranked by GigaOm as a “strong focus and perfect fit” in security, analytics, Kubernetes support, efficiency, manageability, ecosystem, and TCO. This recognition comes as FlashBlade nears $1 billion sales and is used by more than 25% of the Fortune 100.

This report inclusion marks the fourth time that Pure has been in a leadership position in a GigaOm Radar report for its market-leading storage solutions. In 2020 alone, Portworx by Pure Storage was featured as a leader in the Gigaom Radar for Kubernetes Data Protection and the Gigaom Radar for Data Storage for Kubernetes. Additionally, Pure was featured as a leader in the GigaOm Radar for Enterprise General-Purpose Storage Systems.

“We’re pleased that Pure solutions continue to rank highly in GigaOm’s Radar analyses. The latest positioning of FlashBlade as a leader in object storage is further validation of our strategy to deliver the best Unified Fast File and Object platform and underscores the critical role that unstructured data and next-generation applications will play in the modern data experience,” said Amy Fowler, VP, strategy and solutions, FlashBlade.

Comments

Incredible list of companies in this report with one big confusion.

How a company like WekaIO who builds and delivers a high performance file storage product based on a parallel file system design could be listed in high performance object storage as they just consider object storage as a optional tier-2 storage with data tiering from a first level of flash. And above all, WekaFS exposes to clients only its own POSIX interface plus NAS but not an object interface. This is clearly mentioned in the WekaFS documentation in the object storage paragraph. WekaO doesn't play at all in this category, we imagine the surprise from Weka team seeing their name in this report.

With this strange idea in mind, why IBM with Spectrum Scale is not listed as they even exposed S3 to clients.

Nutanix embeds Minio like Qumulo and Qumulo is not listed, other strange decisions.

And we even see some exotic names and other names are missing.

This is just amazing and confirms some doubts based on inputs we received in the past on various reports produced by Gigaom on storage, losing the small credibility they had a few years ago.