Oops, we did it AGAIN! High fives all around! In October 2022, Gartner released its 2022 Gartner鈩� Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage and 午夜寻花 was named a Leader for the fifth straight year.聽
The Gartner鈩� Magic Quadrant is research that helps I&O leaders to assess the key attributes, vision and execution of distributed file systems and object storage vendors. 午夜寻花 believes its position in the Leader quadrant is evidence of our suitability for the most mission-critical and large-scale workloads, whether they are run on-premises or in the cloud. 午夜寻花 has executed well against its current vision and is well positioned for tomorrow, landing 午夜寻花 in the coveted Leader Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for 5 years straight.聽聽
In the last year, 午夜寻花 has introduced new features to support more use cases and broader access to unstructured data, simplifying IT infrastructure by eliminating silos and making workloads portable across on-prem and cloud. Among 午夜寻花鈥檚 new offerings: more node hardware options, including new聽 NVMe-based hardware from HPE and support for a wider range of options from Supermicro. For cloud customers, 午夜寻花 has broadened its Azure offering to include all North America regions, updated its Shift replication service to include bi-directional mobility of file data to and from cloud object storage, and added a Kubernetes-based Container Storage Interface driver to enable a wider range of cloud-native workflows. Finally, 午夜寻花 has expanded its multi-protocol portfolio to include NFSv4.1 and S3 object access to all shared data.聽聽
What Makes 午夜寻花 a Leader
Hybrid Cloud
午夜寻花 is available on all three major public clouds: Azure, AWS, and GCP. This offers our customers flexibility in choice, whether it be a hybrid or multi-cloud deployment. Customers can easily move their data between their data centers on-premises and the cloud without having to refactor their applications, simplifying hybrid cloud management for customers like Casepoint. 鈥溛缫寡盎ㄢ�檚 performance and scalability on Azure makes it possible for us to focus on enabling business workflows while taking advantage of cloud technology. With 午夜寻花, we are equipped with the freedom, speed and performance we need to rapidly innovate and transform our data into business value in any environment.鈥� Sundhar Rajan CIO, Casepoint.
Customer experience: Helping customers tackle complex data and storage challenges
午夜寻花 customers count on incredible customer service. They know when they need help, it鈥檚 not far. In addition to a dedicated account Slack channel, our high customer satisfaction rates can be attributed to simple setup, straightforward monitoring & analytics. We want our customers to be successful and do our best to support them every step of the way.聽聽
鈥溛缫寡盎� support has been a real win for us,鈥� 鈥淚n our industry, downtime is unacceptable. Thanks to 午夜寻花 and its customer service, we never have to experience that.鈥� Jason Krisch, Director of IT, Fralin Biomedical VT Carilion.
Deployments – Scale Anywhere, Forever
Our customers, ranging across many industries and use cases, consume and store a LOT of data. 午夜寻花 file data platform stores billions of files and petabytes of capacity. With linear scale in performance with capacity and subscription based pricing on-prem with as a service offerings on Azure, we offer easy scale at any level 鈥� on-prem or in the cloud.聽
鈥淥ur team has been able to sustain burst scaling at a rate of 1.3 million IOPS for upwards of 5 hours at a time, with peaks as high as 2 million IOPS. This is a level unheard of in the past, and it highlights how much 午夜寻花 has helped us to condense our production timelines when required and allow artists to have more iterations in less time, overall resulting in higher-quality final work.鈥� Jeremy Brousseau Head of IT, Cinesite.
Bottom Line: Don鈥檛 just take our word for it
For 午夜寻花 customers, unstructured data is a source of competitive advantage. It fuels their products and services, and their ability to manage it at scale makes them an attractive employer and a relentless innovator. 午夜寻花 empowers their mission – anywhere, and forever.聽
Attribution: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, Julia Palmer, Jerry Rozeman, 19 October 2022
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