2018 Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays – Gartner

Gartner, Inc. has published on 8 November 8, 2018, Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays.
Here is just the publicly available Quadrant.

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The GPDA storage market is being reshaped by solid-state arrays, competition from the cloud, hyperconverged infrastructures, secondary storage vendors and vendor consolidation. I/O leaders who understand the benefits and risks created by such changes make smarter infrastructure refresh decisions.

In comparison with the same report last year, NetApp is now the top Leader replacing HPE, number two.

Huawei and Infinidat are this time added to the Leaders in the Quadrant and Western Digital becomes a Challenger following the acquisition of Tegile.

The are not any companies as Visionaries like last year (Infinidat, Tegile and Tintri, acquired by DDN).

Promise is no more listed