Best Storage Products of 2022

Here are the companies with the best storage products of the year as compiled by the redaction of StorageNewsLetter.com:

HDDs
Best in HDDs: Western Digital
Best in HDD controllers: Marvell

SSDs
Best in SSDs: Samsung, Kioxia
Best in SSD controllers: Phison

Tapes
Best in LTO tape drives: IBM
Best in tape cartridges: FujiFilm
Best in tape libraries: Spectra Logic

Subystems
Best in external HDDs: LaCie, Western Digital
Best in de-dupe backup appliance: Exagrid
Best in NAS for home: Buffalo, Qnap, Synology
Best in NAS for enterprises: NetApp
Best in SANs for enterprises: Infinidat
Best in disk arrays for SOHO: Iodyne, Drobo
Best in AFAs: NetApp, Pure Storage

Software
Best in backup software: Veeam
Best in archive software: Atempo, Komprise, Versity
Best in object storage software: Cloudian, Hitachi Vantara, Scality
Best in SDS: DataCore, Cohesity, Vast Data
Best in container storage: MayaData (DataCore), Portworx (Pure Storage), Robin.IO
Best in parallel file system: DDN, Weka.IO
Best in global file services: Hammerspace, Nasuni, Ctera Networks
Best in open source storage software: Ceph, MinIO, TrueNAS
Best in data management: Komprise, StrongBox Data
Best in computational storage (DPU): Fungible, Nebulon, Pliops

Online backup
Best in online backup for consumers: Backblaze
Best in online backup for enterprises: Amazon, Google, Microsoft