Critical Capabilities for Object Storage

Comparing object storage products against critical capabilities

Published March 2019

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Cost reduction is driving enterprise interest in on-premises object storage; however, compelling hybrid cloud storage capabilities also attract attention.

Gartner compares 13 object storage products against eight critical capabilities – capacity, storage efficiency, interoperability, manageability, performance, resilience, security and multi-tenancy, and value. It then ranks suppliers' products across five use cases – analytics, archiving, backup, cloud storage, and hybrid cloud storage.