Nutanix is positioned furthest in vision among all vendors in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for File and Object Storage Platforms.
Nutanix believes this recognition is due to the company’s strong vision for an enterprise storage platform that unifies unstructured data across edge, public and private clouds. This, along with the ability to consolidate files, objects and block storage across virtual machines and containers enables customers to consolidate architectures, simplify operations and reduce cost.
“Nutanix is widely recognised for block-based hyperconverged infrastructure, so it’s particularly rewarding to see our vision recognised in bringing consistent operational leverage to file and object use cases, which increasingly form the data backbone for modern applications and generative AI,” says Lee Caswell, senior vice-president: product and solutions marketing at Nutanix.
Nutanix believes the company was positioned furthest in vision for five key reasons:
- Modern scale-out architecture: Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) offers a modern scale-out architecture that enables organisations to start small and efficiently scale out to very large volumes of multi-Petabyte data while also scaling performance;
- Software-defined storage: NUS provides a software-defined solution that can be deployed across any server platform as well as any location – at the edge, in data centres or in public clouds;
- Cloud operating model: Nutanix delivers a cloud operating model that extends the Nutanix hallmark of management simplicity to storage and data;
- Integrated cyber resilience: NUS offers integrated cyber resilience and data security capabilities aligned to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework;
- Unified platform and licensing: NUS delivers a unified storage platform for NFS, SMB, S3, and iSCSI with a single license meter for any data access type.
NUS is a software-defined data platform that uniquely consolidates access and management of siloed file, object, and block storage into a single platform. Powered by rich data services such as analytics, ransomware protection, lifecycle management, and data protection, NUS enables organisations to adapt to fast-changing applications’ needs and shift their focus from data storage to more strategic data management.
Additionally, in the past year, Nutanix showed significant advancements in high performance for AI workloads with top placement in MLPerf Storage benchmark for training, data protection with zero RPO/RTO metro sync, enhanced cyber resilience through Nutanix Data Lens with an innovative threat containment window followed by automated recovery, and expanded hybrid cloud integration with AWS.