Top Fastest Growing Storage Companies in 2017

Yearly since 2013, we are ranking the top fastest growing storage companies in sales, either start-ups, private or public firms, from 2016 to 2017 (calendar year or fiscal year), based on published figures only.

This ranking will be updated when we will get more information from other companies.

They are all privately held – but three – and about never reveal the exact figure of their sales. But a bunch of them have published press releases demonstrating their growth in percentage of sales, bookings or in number of customers or units shipped. We have classified below these firms pending on their published growth.

In 2016, five public companies deserved a position in our ranking: Box, Carbonite, Mellanox, Micron, Nimble Storage (acquired by HPE) and Pure Storage. This time they are three: Box, Nutanix and Pure Storage.

This time just one firm surpasses 300% yearly growth: Cohesity with 600%. Last year they were two: StorPool (350%) and Unitrends (330%). In 2015 leaders were Vaultize (500%), Exablox acquired by StorageCraft (400%), Tegile (350%), Infinidat (331%), SoftNAS (330%) and Cloudian (300%).

Here are companies being in top list for two consecutive years: Box, MSys Technologies, Nakivo, Nutanix, Pivot3, Pure Storage and Veeam Software.

We think Box, Micron, Nutanix, Pure Storage and Veeam are the biggest ones in global revenue in our list and we suspect that few of other companies listed are profitable.

Of course we missed all the private storage companies that didn’t reveal anything on their financial activity. For two reasons: 1/ they are successful but neglect to inform us about it; 2/ they are not successful and prefer not divulge their results.

Among them, the majority is involved in backup software, cloud, all-flash or hyperconverged infrastructure.

Most Growing Storage Companies in 2017 From 2016

Ranking	Vendors	2016/2017 Growth	Activity
1	Cohesity	600%	hyperconverged secondary storage
2	BlueData	330%	democratizing big data by making it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for organizations of all sizes to deploy Hadoop and Spark infrastructure on-premises
3	Talon Storage	128%	software based solution that creates software-defined storage fabric
4	N2W Software	102%	to access to data with AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery solution; acquired by Veeam
5	Nakivo	85%	backup and replication for VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS on Windows, Linux, and NAS
6	Scality	80%	Object and cloud storage oftware
7	Nutanix	72%	hyperconverged infrastructure
8	Pivot3	65%	storage-centric hyperconverged infrastructure
9	Micron	64%	flash chips and SSDs
10	ownCloud	50%	open platform for productivity and security in digital collaboration
11	Pure Storage	41%	all-flash arrays
12	Caringo	40%	object storage software
13	Veeam Software	36%	backup software for virtualization environment
14	Datto	36%	hardware- and cloud-based on- and off-site backup, DR and BC solutions
15	MSys Technologies	33%	storage, virtualization, cloud computing, UX engineering and predictive analytics
16	Box	27%	online storage on Web
17	Exagrid	20%	de-dupe

(Source: StorageNewsletter.com)

Note: Other start-ups could be probably included in this table of fastest growing storage firms in 2017 but they didn’t prove it by publishing precisely their yearly growing figures: Archive360, Backup Everything, Cloudian, Compuverde, Ctera, Datrium, Hypergrid, Infinidat, MapR, Panzura, Quobyte, Rubrik, Talon Storage, Virtual Instruments.

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