Primary Storage Platforms

This market report, published on September 17, 2024, was written by Jeff Vogel and Chandra Mukhyala, analysts at Gartner, Inc.

Primary storage users are embracing platform-native service capabilities for hybrid IT operations. I&O leaders should use this research to plan and execute a modern and resilient storage infrastructure platform for mission-critical applications.

Strategic Planning Assumptions
By 2027, consumption-based platform SLA guarantees will replace over 50% of product feature requirements in storage selection decisions, up from less than 5% in 2024.

By 2028, consumption-based storage as a service (STaaS) will replace over 33% of enterprise storage Capex, up from less than 15% in 2024.

By 2028, more than 2/3 of critical application primary storage infrastructure will employ cyber liability detection and protection capabilities, up from less than 5% in 2024.

Market Definition/Description
The primary storage platform (PSP) market addresses the need of I&O leaders to operate and support standardized enterprise storage products, along with platform-native service capabilities to support structured data applications. PSP products like primary enterprise storage arrays provide mandatory and common enterprise-class primary storage features and capabilities needed to support the platform.

Platform-native services like STaaS and ransomware protection, with PSP product capabilities, are required to support platform-native services. The PSP market has emerged at the convergence of 2 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.

PSP products’ foremost purpose is to support platform-native service capabilities and response time and IO/s-sensitive structured data workloads. The storage operating system is the foundation for innovation and a path to a SDS architecture that enables hybrid platform services. SDS software abstracts and repurposes the vendor-owned storage operating system, storage management tools and AIOps capabilities from the vendors’ proprietary hardware platform. This allows for improved flexibility in use with third-party infrastructure across one or more infrastructure domains (e.g., public cloud, edge domain locations).

SDS can operate on industry-standard hardware and hypervisors across different infrastructure domains with equal, and no less, or better capabilities to the vendors’ on-premises external controller-based array functionality. AIOps-enabled SLA-based life cycle management and support outcomes are also offered with tangible and measurable guarantees by using storage-based telemetry tools and automation. Platform-native SLA-based operations and the vendors’ API-centric centralized control plane are used for automated infrastructure management, as defined in Market Guide for Infrastructure Consumption Services.

Platform-native as-a-service offerings include data and storage management services such as ransomware protection. They also include the syndication and integration of in-house or 3rd-party ISV products as part of their managed service offerings. PSP products and platform services are available in traditional Capex, subscription and consumption pay-for-use licensing.

PSP use cases include mission- and business-critical database workloads such as IBM Db2; Microsoft SQL; Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint; Oracle applications, including SAP HANA; payment systems; healthcare systems such as Epic; and in-house-developed transactional applications. Other use cases include application consolidation; support for virtual environments, hosted and/or managed virtual desktop infrastructure environments; support for persistent and protected storage for container environments; and hybrid platform-native IT operations that include or span on-premises, colocation, edge and public cloud infrastructure.

Mandatory Features
The mandatory features of the primary storage with platform services market include support for:

• Block-based STaaS offering available as a managed service or in conjunction with the end-user client as IT self-managed offering.
• AIOps for threshold-based operational monitoring and observability to support proactive actions and infrastructure health. AIOps functionality is integrated with the vendor’s customer support capabilities, including digital analytics tools and problem resolution, capacity management, nondisruptive workload simulation, placement and migration, asset utilization costs optimization, performance optimization, and both full and cross-stack observability and reporting.
• SDS architecture that separates the vendor’s storage hardware from the storage operating software that manages the storage system and adjoining infrastructure. The SDS product supports on-premises storage and is integrated to a minimum of one hyperscale cloud platform server, storage or networking hardware to like or similar functionality and capabilities, as found in its on-premises appliance solution and integrated with vendor AIOps functionality. This allows customers to keep their data in the same vendor operating environment while providing portability between on-premises and adjacent multidomain infrastructure.
• Cyberstorage data resilience and protection capabilities that follows the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) for ransomware Identify, protect, detect, respond and recover capabilities. NIST CSF 2.0 includes additional changes and functions, including a sixth pillar: govern.

Common Features
The common features of the primary storage with platform services market include support for:

• Advanced AIOps real-time event streaming capabilities in support of monitored SLA threshold conditions that require automated, system-level (for example, nonhuman intervention) responses/actions to critical IT operational situations, such as cyberliability resilience, continuous cost optimization and productivity improvements
• Multiprotocol, disaggregated storage-compute architecture that supports online asymmetrical elastic scaling of capacity and compute, independent of each other, with elastic (increase or decrease) linear performance from a small number of compute and storage nodes to hundreds or thousands of storage and/or compute nodes without operational disruption
• Carbon dioxide emissions measurement and reporting capabilities, as measured by total kilograms of CO2 per terabyte
• Special-purpose or customized NVMe SSD products (captive NVMe SSD) for enhanced performance, endurance, management or other enhanced storage capabilities and data services
• Nondisruptive migration service of data from current array to future array with a 100% data availability guarantee

Figure 1: Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Platforms

Vendor Strengths and Cautions

Dell Technologies
It is a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Its storage portfolio consists largely of PowerMax, PowerStore and PowerFlex SDS products, addressing midsize to high-end enterprise needs. PowerFlex is a scale-out offering for on-premises and hybrid cloud, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, branded as APEX Block Storage. APEX Subscriptions offer block, file and data protection STaaS and are paired with data services such as ransomware protection. APEX Navigator provides multicloud management and orchestration across public clouds and on-premises. The vendor’s operations are geographically diversified, targeting high-end to midsize enterprise markets. During the last 12 months, the company offered a new 5:1 data reduction guarantee for PowerMax and PowerStore, a new PowerStore 3200Q product with a QLC NVMe SSD and usage monitoring.

Strengths

• Backed by its Future-Proof Program, the firm offers customers a 5:1 data reduction SLA guarantee for its PowerMax and PowerStore products.
• The vendor simplifies platform backup and restore by integrating its PowerMax and PowerStore offerings with PowerProtect Data Domain, providing customers with simplified platform deployment and a versatile multidomain data service capability.
• APEX Navigator provides a multicloud orchestration and provisioning capability that simplifies infrastructure platform management across on-premises and AWS public cloud.

Cautions

• The vendor does not offer a single storage OS that works across midrange, high-end and public cloud. This creates data management and platform complexity along with flexibility limitations to changing workload requirements.
• The vendor lacks IT operating model platform SLA guarantees, as compared to other vendors evaluated in this research that offer SLAs for ransomware detection, power consumption and energy efficiency.
• Dell Technologies’flash SSD support for its midrange and high-end enterprise products only scales to 30.6TB drives and has no offload engine functionality. In comparison, some competitors offer 60TB and 75TB drives with better power, space and cooling efficiencies, and data services assist capabilities.

Hitachi Vantara
It is a Challenger in this Magic Quadrant. Its storage portfolio consists of Hitachi VSP One Block and midrange appliances and its SDS offerings of VSP One SDS Block software for use on-premises or in AWS. Hitachi EverFlex is an IaaS managed STaaS consumption solution. Firm’s operations are geographically diversified, with global enterprise clients in open systems and mainframe markets. Over the past 12 months, the vendor restructured its operations to focus exclusively on data platforms and data services It introduced 100Gb NVMe/TCP and 64Gb FC, advanced safe snap for ransomware protection, a compression accelerator module for a 4:1 data reduction guarantee, and a dynamic carbon reduction feature that proactively reduces power consumption based on utilization.

Strengths

• The vendor offers a sustainability SLA guarantee through its Hitachi Modern Storage Assurance program. It allows customers to upgrade to the next-generation Hitachi solution within five years of installation to support 30% to 40% carbon emission reduction objectives.
• It has enhanced its EverFlex consumption-based portfolio of services by simplifying customer onboarding to its managed subscription business.
• Its control plane, EverFlex Control, divides its functionality into modular components that focus on different aspects of IT operations, allowing customers to tailor benefits to platform needs.

Cautions

• The vendor lags behind PSP competitors in offering a robust ransomware detection SLA guarantee.
• The vendor does not offer an on-premises SDS system that separates compute and storage resources, which prevents compute and capacity resources from independently scaling cost-effectively.
• It lags behind competitors in offering a cost-performant QLC SSD drive in lieu of hybrid HDD systems for use in lowering backup and DR site costs.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It is a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Its portfolio includes the NVMe all-flash HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on HPE Alletra Storage MP, HPE Alletra 9000 for mission-critical applications, and HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 for business-critical and general-purpose applications. HPE’s operations are geographically diversified and most of its clients tend to be in small to midsize enterprise markets. In the past 12 months, the company restructured its storage business into its HPE Hybrid Cloud business unit. It updated HPE GreenLake Private Cloud Business Edition to support its SDS disaggregated scale-out solution, HPE GreenLake for Block Storage. Additional enhancements include new OpsRamp capabilities for the vendor’s AIOps platform.

Strengths

• Firm’s four-node 32-core CPU Alletra MP SDS disaggregated architecture allows customers to cost-effectively scale platform capacity and performance independent of each other, with a 100% data availability guarantee.
• GreenLake for Block Storage (built on Alletra Storage MP) customers can run the same storage software on-premises and in AWS, benefiting from storage standardization that simplifies data management and hybrid platform services.
• The HPE what-if workload simulation provides customers with fleetwide workload placement recommendations based on performance and available platform capacity.

Cautions

• The vendor lags behind competitors in offering a sustainability and cyber ransomware SLA guarantee.
• Company’s flash SSD support for its products only scales to 30.6TB NVMe drives, with no offload engine functionality to support platform requirements, compared to the 60TB and 75TB drives offered by competitors, with better power, space and cooling efficiencies and data assist capabilities.
• Some confusion is possible as to which product is best for certain workloads as firm’s transitions and consolidates its storage portfolio to the GreenLake for Block Storage built on Alletra Storage MP product.

Huawei
It is a Challenger in this Magic Quadrant. Its product portfolio includes the all-flash and hybrid OceanStor Dorado series, SDS OceanStor Pacific series and Huawei Cloud Stack (HCS) Elastic Volume Service (EVS) for STaaS. It mainly operates in China, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and its clients tend to be in large enterprises, telecom and public clouds in China. It is restricted from selling in North America. The vendor’s products target a range of entry-level to high-end storage use cases. In the past 12 months, it released 2 new high-capacity QLC SSD arrays, OceanStor 5310 and 5510; multilayer ransomware protection; and a knowledge-based AI assistant developed on the Huawei Pangu Weather AI model.

Strengths

• Firm’s Multilayer Ransomware Protection offers a 99.99% detection rate on known variants by employing a collaborative network storage approach to reduce cyberthreats.
• The vendor provides a 100% data availability guarantee and a 5:1 effective capacity guarantee for its AFA products that are active for 3 years from date of warranty.
• Its captive NVMe SSD FlashLink technology enables rapid introduction of higher drive capacities and, with ASIC-based offload engine functionality, supports improved performance, resilience and extended flash life.

Cautions

• The vendor is restricted from distributing in North America and, as a result, does not provide an SDS multicloud scale-out hybrid platform solution for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Its customer concentration and limited business exposure outside of its 2 primary vertical industries create a potential risk to ongoing operations, support and product availability in the event of an industry or local economic downturn.
• Multiple Huawei STaaS offerings and licensing options can be overly complex and confusing, depending on whether vendor’s Cloud Stack or ElasEver is promoted by its sales teams.

IBM
It is a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Its FlashSystem line includes the 5300, 7300 and 9500 products. All systems include the IBM custom NVMe SSD FlashCore Modules (FCM), which accelerate performance by offloading storage functionality, such as cyberthreat detection, to the flash device. IBM Storage Virtualize is the common storage controller software across the portfolio and is available on AWS and Azure. The

DS8900F is focused on the IBM mainframe storage infrastructure. All models are offered as STaaS. The vendor has global reach and positions its products from entry level to very large enterprises. During the last 12 months, the company introduced the latest FCM4 for cyberthreat detection, VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) with policy-based replication, and Flash Grid for workload partitioning and mobility.

Strengths

• The IBM Storage Assurance consumption program provides flat subscription pricing that includes life cycle managed technology upgrades, along with a performance guarantee.
• Vendor’s Flash Grid workload mobility, partitioning and nondisruptive migration solution guarantee provides efficient asset management and continuous workload optimization across platform requirements.
• The company offers an energy-efficiency guarantee based on wattage per raw terabyte and the ability to continuously monitor throughout the workload life cycle.

Cautions

• The vendor does not offer a capacity-optimized QLC-based array that is priced to compete against hybrid HDD arrays.
• It does not offer file service support on any of its block storage products.
• It does not offer an on-premises FlashSystem that separates compute and storage resources.

IEIT SYSTEMS
It is a Niche Player in this Magic Quadrant. It has a broad portfolio of entry-level to high-end storage products, including the midrange AS5300/AS5500G5 and high-end NVMe AFA HF18000G5. The vendor’s operations are largely concentrated in China, with most of its revenue generated in-country. Its clients are mainly in the midmarket enterprise and SMB market segments. In the past 12 months, the vendor introduced a 4-controller hardware design, scaling up to 48 controllers. It also developed and released its own 61TB QLC NVMe SSD drive that doubles the node capacity. In addition, the vendor’s new ransomware recovery solution prevents deletion before the policy-based expiration period is reached.

Strengths

• Vendor’s unique chassis and 4-controller frame design with autonomous load balancing is unique among competitors, allowing customers to linearly scale up to 48 controllers in a highly resilient and performant-guarantee manner.
• The company’s in-line I/O antiransomware service identifies infected objects and can automatically roll them back through snapshots to minimize the impact of ransomware.
• Firm’s Infinistor AIOps tool provides performance workload planning and simulation, enabling customers to continuously optimize their environment.

Cautions

• The vendor is relatively unknown outside the China market, where most of its customers are based, making it difficult for global storage enterprise customers to justify choosing the vendor over established global brands.
• It lags behind competitors in offering a multidomain platform strategy for use in major global public clouds, limiting its consideration as a viable option for expanded hybrid data center deployments.
• It lags behind competitors in integrating and offering an ecosystem of market-leading independent software providers, such as ransomware recovery and autorecovery, as part of a platform data services strategy.

Infinidat
It is a Challenger in this Magic Quadrant. Its 2 primary products, InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA G4, are based on its common InfuzeOS and Neural Cache architecture. InfuzeOS enables hybrid multicloud platform capabilities based on the vendor’s InfuzeOS Cloud Edition SDS product for use in AWS and Azure environments. The firm is a private company focused primarily on large enterprises and service providers in North America, EMEA, and the AsiaPac and Japan region. In the last 12 months, updates include Mobius life cycle management for controller upgrade, enhancements to its InfiniVerse AIOps tool, a new InfiniSafe Cyber Detection offering for VMware environments, and new Automated Cyber Protection solutions. Additionally, SSA Express enables clients to nondisruptively enable a fully integrated all-flash SSA in the InfiniBox hybrid platform. The vendor also announced its F1400T enterprise SSA all-flash platform starting at 155TB of usable storage.

Strengths

• Infinidat is a well-established storage brand in the service provider and very high-end global enterprise market, where its multi-dozen-petabyte capacity typically supports consolidation of several applications onto a single system. It is also known for its high-quality service and support.
• The Infinidat SSA Express solution provides clients with additional capabilities, such as consolidating multiple smaller, point product flash array requirements into a single cost-effective InfiniBox hybrid array with all-flash SSA capabilities.
• The vendor’s subscription-based InfiniSafe Cyber Detection for VMware provides a 99.99% guarantee for recovery in less than 1mn, regardless of data size, from immutable snapshots after a cyberattack.

Cautions

• The company lacks a midrange product making it difficult for customers to justify choosing it as a single supplier for their storage platform environment.
• InfuzeOS is based on an on-premises 3-node, active-active-active controller architecture, limiting the SDS InfuzeOS Cloud Edition version to a single-node architecture for use in AWS and Azure public clouds.
• Firm’s flash SSD support is limited to 15TB drives, compared to market leaders that offer 30TB, 60TB and 75TB drives and have better power, space and cooling efficiencies.

NetApp

It is a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Its products include AFF A-Series, AFF C-Series, ASA A-Series, ASA C-Series, FAS storage arrays, E-Series, EF-Series and the ONTAP Select (CVO) SDS offering. The company’s Hybrid Cloud business segment supports a range of on-premises and cloud customers, from midsize to large global enterprise clients. During the last 12 months, the firm expanded ONTAP availability and data protection with the BlueXP disaster recovery service. Its BlueXP classification service classifies data based on metadata or actual data content parameters for governance and compliance, and the BlueXP backup and recovery service provides data protection for either on-premises or cloud targets, without the need to deploy backup software or hardware. ONTAP Select was expanded from eight to 16 nodes on VMware ESXi, along with support for VMware ESXi 8.0.2, KVM hypervisor and NVMe/TCP.

Strengths

• The vendor offers a Ransomware Recovery Guarantee to recover the immutable backup snapshot for its file/unified (AFF) and block (ASA) products. The Ransomware Recovery Assurance Service is required at the time of system purchase to activate this guarantee.
• The company simplifies IT operations data center activities by expanding its Keystone strategy with an Equinix Metal service offering. It bundles space, power, cooling and full-stack infrastructure elements, as well as a performance guarantee.
• The vendor’s BlueXP control plane sustainability dashboard enables customers to monitor, report and take action on sustainability insights in order to manage energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Cautions

• The company does not offer a competitive ransomware detection SLA guarantee, notwithstanding its ransomware recovery guarantee, for block storage platform applications.
• Its flash SSD support for its ASA and AFF series of products only scales to 30.6TB drives, compared to the 60TB and 75TB drives offered by competitors with better power, space and cooling efficiencies.
• The vendor does not offer an on-premises SDS system that separates compute and storage resources, which prevents compute and capacity resources from independently scaling cost-effectively.

Pure Storage
It is a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Its arrays include the FlashArray family (//X, //XL, //C, //E and //ST), spanning a range of price/performance workloads. Its multicloud SDS Cloud Block Store is available on AWS and Azure. The Evergreen//One platform provides STaaS subscriptions, including a new AI assistant, Evergreen//One for AI and DRaaS. The company targets small to very large enterprise customers, mostly in North America, Europe, and select AsiaPac and Latin American countries. In the last 12 months, the vendor added a 75TB QLC direct flash module (DFM) and 36.6TB TLC DFMs to further improve storage energy efficiency and rack space. New AIOps-enabled Pure1 SLAs include power, energy efficiency and space, cyber recovery and resilience, and zero data loss guarantees.

Strengths

• Leveraging Pure1, the company takes a proactive SLA approach to its managed STaaS Evergreen//One subscriptions by offering customers meaningful platform guarantees that provide favorable IT operations’ benefits.
• Pure Fusion’s control plane is embedded into its Purity OS, eliminating external cloud communication and AIOps dependencies for fleet management and proactive support.
• The vendor’s captive NVMe SSD DFM enables Evergreen//One to drive more frequent flash hardware innovation, new SLAs and data management improvements.

Cautions

• The company lags behind competitors in customer diversification outside of USA, making it harder for customers to justify selecting it over more established vendors in those regions.
• Its Capex-based Evergreen//Forever program markedly increases storage array asset platform and support costs to enable modern life cycle management objectives.
• The firm does not offer an on-premises SDS system that separates compute and storage resources, which prevents compute and capacity resources from independently scaling cost-effectively.

Zadara
It is a Niche Player in this Magic Quadrant. Its zStorage offering includes Virtual Private Storage Arrays (VPSAs) and Virtual Storage Controller (VSC) and an Object Storage product. VSC integrates with its patented key value store and its zCompute machine instances to provide flexible block storage for various workloads. The vendor primarily works with a portfolio of global managed hosting service providers, but also does some business directly with enterprise customers. The firm is a private company operating globally, in North America, South America, EMEA and the AsiaPac region. Recent updates in the last 12 months include Extended XCOPY for VMware, an improved encryption cipher and an improved provisioning portal to simplify operations.

Strengths

• Firm’s business model provides customers with a global and highly skilled managed service provider channel, well-versed in managing and supporting platform consumption services as a managed service.
• Its solution leverages a cost-effective object store and a disaggregated key value architecture for tiering storage capacity.
• The vendor’s architecture reduces overall physical hardware waste by leveraging a flexible life cycle management strategy. It is based on composable commodity hardware that can be repurposed dynamically anywhere in a multi-tenant-hosted STaaS environment.

Cautions

• The company is limited in the number of favorable IT operating model platform SLAs it offers natively, such as ransomware protection and recovery.
• It is a relatively small vendor in terms of size of operation and coverage among larger and more visible competitors, making it challenging for customers to justify choosing it over larger and brand-recognized vendors.
• The vendor’s STaaS platform depends on its MSPs to offer 3rd-party integrated and supported ISV) partner data services.

Vendors Added and Dropped
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.

Added
Zadara

Dropped
DDN (Tintri) was dropped because it did not meet the minimum requirements and inclusion criteria for platform-native services.

Inclusion Criteria

To be included in this Magic Quadrant, vendors were required to:

• Produce and have released their own storage controller operating system product (sometimes referred to as data management software) and/or an SDS product that decouples controller software from its hardware appliance, for general availability for the period of June 2022 through 31 May 2024, to support all Critical Capabilities use cases.
• Have PSP data services that can either be organically developed by vendors or in joint partnership with an ISV, but primarily branded, offered and supported by the PSP vendors effective May 31 2024.
• Be available and supported in at least 3 of the major primary storage market geographies among the AsiaPac region, Japan, EMEA, Latin America and North America, by either direct, service provider or channel sales.
• Have generated greater than $250 million in recognized primary storage billing revenue (excluding support revenue) over the last 4 quarters as of March 31 2024 and/or have an installed base of a minimum of 500 active on-premises enterprise storage customers within the large or midsize enterprise, or have generated over $50 million in total ARR rate contract value reported on March 31 2024, or have an installed base (either direct to end users or through service providers) of at least 200 active customers within the midsize and large enterprise markets. (Gartner defines the midsize market as being 500 to 999 employees, and the large enterprise market as being 1,000 employees or greater.)
• Have PSP products and services that are sold under the vendors’ brand or through service providers without the requirement to bundle it with other vendors’ storage products in order for the PSP product to be commercially usable in mission- or business-critical production use cases.
• Have produced or, in partnership, released a vendor-managed hybrid platform block STaaS data service infrastructure offering (e.g., backup, disaster recover, cyberprotection) in at least 2 of the largest primary storage market geographies listed above that can be used with on-premises and public cloud infrastructure, along with offering integrated AIOps capabilities for use in the vendors’ central control and data planes.

The primary storage arrays, SDS product offerings and platform capabilities evaluated in this research include hybrid storage arrays, solid-state arrays (SSAs) and/or SDS products that scale up, scale out and may have unified storage architectures. Because these products have different availability characteristics, performance profiles, scalability, ecosystem support, pricing and warranties, they enable users to tailor solutions for operational needs, plan new application deployments, forecast growth rates and/or implement storage asset management strategies.

Exclusion Criteria
Vendors and/or their products were excluded from this Magic Quadrant if they had:

• PSP storage array and/or SDS products that are designed to support primarily unstructured data workloads managed by dedicated scale-out file systems and object storage protocols
• PSP services exclusively provided, managed and supported by third parties (e.g., first-party services) instead of by the vendors
• PSP products (e.g., storage controller operating system) must not depend on a third party or an OEM license
• SDS options excluded from this market, as follows: (1) software that eliminates shared storage by simply mirroring internal flash or HDD disks between hypervisors; (2) open-source licensed software that is not directly vendor-owned IP; (3) where SDS is part of HCI; (4) whereby storage services are created and delivered per policy-controlled virtualization software; (5) storage software that is not available on-premises or as the majority share of vendors’ primary storage revenue; and (6) HCI software
• PSP storage arrays and/or SDS products that are designed and marketed specifically as solutions to support custom-made or limited use cases only (for example, video surveillance or video rendering and content production, and high-performance computing)
• Third-party ISV data services that are not integrated, managed, supported and branded as a PSP vendor offering, integrated with its respective control plane
• Public cloud storage services offered by IaaS or PaaS providers, including cloud service providers that integrate vendors’ core PSP IP, such as a storage controller OS