Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage
Primary storage users are embracing infrastructure consumption-based services for hybrid, multidomain, mission-critical applications, and to align costs to business demands. I&O leaders should use this research to automate operations, reduce complexity and churn, and transform IT operations.
A primary storage product’s foremost purpose is to support response time and input/output per second (IOPS)-sensitive structured data workloads. Additionally, primary storage functionality will integrate with and support the independent use of a centralized control plane for automated infrastructure management, data services and data movement, and for storage-as-a-service hybrid infrastructure platform offerings. Typical use cases include:
- Mission- and business-critical database workloads
- Application consolidation
- Support for virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure environments
- Persistent storage and data protection for container environments
- Hybrid cloud IT operations that span on-premises, colocation, edge and public cloud infrastructure