Data storage
Enterprise, object and file storage for data. Evaluated by Gartner Magic Quadrant, GigaOm Radar, 2020 to 2026: 14 reports, 20 vendors. Each firm below runs newest first, with who moved since its edition before.
Distributed File Systems and Object Storage
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 4 editions, 2020 to 2023
2023
2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage4 Leaders
IBM
Pure Storage
Qumulo
Scality
Changes since 2022
Dell Technologies · No longer a Leader
2022
2022-10-19
2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage5 Leaders
No change in the Leaders since 2021.
2021
2021-10-01
2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage5 Leaders, 3 in other tiers
Changes since 2020
Cloudian · New in Challengers
DDN · New in Niche Players
Hitachi Vantara · New in Challengers
2020
2020-10-15
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LeadersChallengersVisionariesNiche Players· not placed
Primary Storage
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 3 editions, 2021 to 2023
2023
2023-09-18
2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage6 Leaders
HPE
Huawei
Infinidat
NetApp
Changes since 2022
2022
2022-10-19
Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage8 Leaders, 1 in other tiers
Changes since 2021
Zadara · Up: Niche Players to Visionaries
Fujitsu · Dropped (was Niche Players)
Inspur · Dropped (was Challengers)
Lenovo · Dropped (was Challengers)
2021
2021-10-11
Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage8 Leaders, 5 in other tiers
Every vendor, year by year
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LeadersChallengersVisionariesNiche Players· not placed
Enterprise Storage Platforms
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 2 editions, 2025 to 2026
2026
2026-08-19
2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms6 Leaders, 2 in other tiers
Everpure
Changes since 2025
IEIT Systems · New in Niche Players
2025
2025-09-02
Every vendor, year by year
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LeadersChallengersVisionariesNiche Players· not placed
Object Storage
GigaOm Radar · 1 edition, 2026
2026
2026-03-20
Unstructured Data Management
GigaOm Radar · 1 edition, 2026
2026
2026-02-13
File and Object Storage Platforms
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 1 edition, 2024
2024
2024-10-08
2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for File and Object Storage Platforms4 Leaders, 1 in other tiers
VAST Data
Primary Storage Platforms
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 1 edition, 2024
2024
2024-09-17
Primary Storage Arrays
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 1 edition, 2020
2020
Placements as each vendor or analyst firm publicly announced them; the tracker lists tiers only, never a report's chart or the positions inside a tier.