![]() A real battle started here and we can list CTera Networks, DDN, Hammerspace, Nasuni, Quantum, Spectra Logic, Vast Data and WekaIO. It is also the place of global namespace across on-premises and cloud, limited to one access methods or supporting a mix of these. AI and ML pressure invited vendors to continue to invest in dedicated design for these workloads. Of course some past deployments exist and enterprises wish to protect their investments but we saw a reduction of the number of tiers, from only one with a full flash to a second level with a mix of different technologies. The reality of an all-flash data center for block, file and object storage for bare-metal, VM and container-based applications.We can list here Dell with APEX, HPE with Alletra and Data Services Cloud Console or Pure Storage with Pure-as-a-Service and more recently Pure Fusion. ![]() We saw various vendor initiatives on this side trying to resist the cloud tsunami continuing to promote a hybrid model. There was a clear progress for a cloud operating model for everything of course in the cloud but above all for on-premises deployments.Signing a contract doesn’t prevent an impact, it just gives responsibility to others but effects and consequences are still on you, so multi-clouds and multi-geos should be systematically adopted. Several major disasters and outages for cloud providers with the OVHcloud scandal or several outages at AWS, Azure and Google, confirming that the business continuity, even for cloud-based services, have to be considered seriously for business critical applications.We select and aggregate information to build a list of 12 items: We here share the news and facts we consider significant in 2021, winners in terms of companies, products and technologies. ![]()
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