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Networking & Scale-out Storage 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Mini-Report
Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey covering six categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for twelve Networking & Scale-out Storage products. Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
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March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Table of Contents
Networking & Scale-out Storage Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report, 2017
Brand Leader Survey Methodology Page 4
Brand Leader Voting Definitions Page 5
2017 Networking & Scale-out Storage Brand Leader Survey Winners Chart Page 6
Respondent Title/Job Description Page 8
Respondent Data Center Environment Page 9
2017 Bare Metal Switch OS Market Leader Chart Page 11
2017 Embedded Blade Server Networking Market Leader Chart Page 12
2017 Enterprise Ethernet NICs Market Leader Chart Page 13
2017 Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing Market Leader Chart Page 14
2017 Ethernet Core Switches Market Leader Chart Page 15
2017 Ethernet Top of Rack Switches Market Leader Chart Page 17
2017 Open Networking (Bare Metal) Switch Market Leader Chart Page 18
2017 Scale-out Object Storage Appliance Market Leader Chart Page 19
2017 Scale-out Object Storage Software Market Leader Chart Page 20
2017 Scale-out File Storage Market Leader Chart Page 21
2017 Servers for Software-Defined Storage Market Leader Chart Page 22
2017 WAN Optimization Market Leader Chart Page 23
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Networking & Scale-out Storage Brand Leader Survey Methodology
• Brand Leader Reports are designed to measure the pulse of brand leadership in specific product categories using independent, non-sponsored surveys with at least 200 respondents.
• The Networking & Scale-out Storage brand leader survey was conducted in March, 2017. – Respondents were solicited from over 1,000,000 members of 100+ online IT groups, and from the IT Brand
Pulse IT professional database. – Two hundred and eleven IT Pros responded to this survey. – Responses were collected using an online survey engine.
• In each part, respondents were provided with a product category description, randomly-listed vendor
choices (plus an “Other” answer choice to add a vendor, if applicable), and were asked six questions:
1. Who do you perceive as the <product category> market leader?
2. Who do you perceive as the <product category> price leader?
3. Who do you perceive as the <product category> performance leader?
4. Who do you perceive as the <product category> reliability leader?
5. Who do you perceive as the <product category> service & support leader?
6. Who do you perceive as the <product category> innovation leader?
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Brand Leader Definitions
2017 Networking & Scale-out Storage Brand Leaders Voted by IT Pros Survey conducted March, 2017
Bare Metal Switch OS Arista - EOS Arista - EOS Arista - EOS Arista - EOS Arista - EOS Arista - EOS
Embedded Blade Server Networking HPE Dell EMC HPE Cisco Cisco HPE
Enterprise Ethernet NICs Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel
Enterprise File Sync and Sharing Citrix Google Citrix Citrix Microsoft Citrix
Ethernet Core Switches Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
Ethernet Top of Rack Switches Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
Open Networking (Bare Metal) Switch Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC
Scale-out Object Storage Appliance Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC
Scale-out Object Storage Software Red Hat Red Hat IBM/Cleversafe Red Hat IBM/Cleversafe Red Hat
Scale-out File Storage NetApp ONTAP NetApp ONTAP NetApp ONTAP NetApp ONTAP NetApp ONTAP NetApp ONTAP
Servers for Software-Defined Storage Cisco UCS Dell Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
WAN Optimization Cisco Riverbed Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
Respondent Profiles
Respondent Title/Job Description:
VAR/OEM
Other
Executive/Management
Server Administrator/Architect
Network Administrator/Architect
Storage Administrator/Architect
Data Center Manager
IT Manager/Director
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
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Your environment is best described as:
Other
Product Development
Public Cloud/Data Center Provider
Small-medium business data center
High performance computing data center
Enterprise data center
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
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Market Leaders
2017 Market Leader Bare Metal Switch OS
Arista - EOS Big Switch - SwitchLight OS
Cumulus - CumulusLinux
Pica8 - PicOS Other
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Bare Metal Switch OS?
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2017 Market Leader Embedded Blade Server Networking
Cisco Dell EMC Fujitsu HPE Huawei Lenovo Oracle Supermicro Other
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Embedded Blade Server Networking?
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2017 Market Leader Enterprise Ethernet NICs
Broadcom Cavium/QLogic Chelsio Intel Mellanox Solarflare Other
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Enterprise Ethernet NICs?
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2017 Market Leader Enterprise File Sync and Sharing
Accellion Box Citrix Dropbox Egnyte Google Huddle Intralinks Microsoft Thru Varonis WatchDox/
BlackBerry
Other
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Enterprise File Sync and Sharing?
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2017 Market Leader Ethernet Core Switch
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Ethernet Core Switch?
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2017 Market Leader Ethernet Top of Rack Switch
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Ethernet Top of Rack Switch?
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2017 Market Leader Open Networking (Bare Metal) Switch
Accton/Edgecore
AlphaNetworks
Dell EMC DeltaNetworks
Inc.
HPE InterfaceMasters
PenguinComputing
Quanta QCT Other
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Open Networking (Bare Metal) Switch?
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2017 Market Leader Scale-out Object Storage Appliance
Cloudian Coho Data DDN Dell EMC Exablox HDS Huawei NEC NetApp Promise
Technology
Quantum Other
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Scale-out Object Storage Appliance?
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2017 Market Leader Scale-out Object Storage Software
March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Scale-out Object Storage Software?
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2017 Market Leader Scale-out File Storage
Dell EMC
Fluid File
System
Hitachi
NAS
Platform
HPE
StoreAll
Storage
Huawei
OceanStor
9000
IBM
Elastic
Storage
IBM
Spectrum
Microsoft
SOFS
NetApp
ONTAP
Quantum
StorNext
Red Hat
Storage
Server
Scale
Logic
Scality SUSE
Enterprise
Storage
Other
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Scale-out File Storage?
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March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
2017 Market Leader Servers for Software Defined Storage
Cisco UCS Dell HPE Huawei Inspur Lenovo Quanta Supermicro Other
Who do you perceive as the market leader for Servers for Software Defined Storage?
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March 2017 Brand Leader Survey
2017 Market Leader WAN Optimization
Who do you perceive as the market leader for WAN Optimization?
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March 2017 Brand Leader Survey