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What are Primary Storage Platforms?

The primary storage platform (PSP) market addresses the need of I&O leaders to operate and support standardized enterprise storage products, along with platform-native service capabilities to support structured data applications. PSP products like primary enterprise storage arrays provide mandatory and common enterprise-class primary storage features and capabilities needed to support the platform. Platform-native services like storage as a service (STaaS) and ransomware protection, with PSP product capabilities, are required to support platform-native services. The PSP market has emerged at the convergence of two major enterprise storage market developments: the evolution of the PSP product market in conjunction with the demand for hybrid, multidomain platform-native storage services, extending on-premises services to public cloud, edge and colocation environments.

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FlashArray

By Pure Storage

4.9
(708 Ratings)

Pure Storage operates in data storage, assisting companies in managing their data effectively while diminishing infrastructural complexity and expense. The organization provides an authentic storage-as-a-service model, offering its customers rapid flexibility to adapt to fluctuating data requirements at scale. The scope of its service includes deployment of diverse workloads, modern programs, containers, and beyond. Pure Storage is also focused on reducing data center emissions globally through its product design. Notably, the organization has received high customer satisfaction scores.

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InfiniBox

By Infinidat

4.9
(504 Ratings)
customers choice 2025

Infinidat specializes in providing an array of primary and secondary storage platforms. The company guarantees 100% availability of these platforms. It also incorporates InfiniSafe— a cyber resilience feature, into its products. Additionally, the company claims to offer the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry.

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NetApp AFF A-Series

By NetApp

4.8
(444 Ratings)
customers choice 2025

NetApp is a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software, and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services, and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere.

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OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage

By Huawei

5
(357 Ratings)
customers choice 2025

Huawei is a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. The company's main focus is to enrich human progress through innovative technologies. Huawei aims to ensure that connectivity is a basic need, emphasizing the importance of access to ICT and the benefits it can provide to a wide audience. The firm specializes in creating customer-focused innovations and establishing strong partnerships, developing capabilities across carrier networks, enterprise, consumers, and cloud computing sections. With operations in over 170 countries, Huawei has a significant global presence. The company's objective is to digitally connect every person, home, and organization in order to achieve a comprehensive connected, intelligent world. Through this, Huawei works to narrow the digital gap, facilitating access to broadband services.

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NetApp FAS

By NetApp

4.8
(318 Ratings)
customers choice 2025

NetApp is a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software, and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services, and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere.

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DS/FS/HD/RS/SA Series

By Synology

4.7
(292 Ratings)

The company is primarily geared towards aiding individuals and organizations in administering, circulating, and safeguarding their data. It is designed to be adaptable, suitable for all types of infrastructures and doesn't require a specific expertise for its usage. The overarching purpose is to cater to data management needs regardless of the volume of data and the different infrastructural contexts they operate in.

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TrueNAS Enterprise

By TrueNAS

4.9
(192 Ratings)

TrueNAS is the Open Enterprise data platform that provides file, block, and object storage atop the ZFS (OpenZFS) file system across an array of all-flash and hybrid (disk+flash) appliances, scaling from dozens of terabytes to hundreds of petabytes and tuned to the performance need of the application. Designed to be adaptable in existing storage environments, while providing ease of data migration, replication, and comprehensive data optimization features like snapshots, compression, and deduplication. Additionally, the storage and data protection capabilities of TrueNAS can be extended with native support for VMs and containers.

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HPE Alletra dHCI

By Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

4.7
(154 Ratings)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, known as a global edge-to-cloud company, concentrates on a range of technology and innovation services to connect, protect, analyze, and act on all data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, focusing on addressing business challenges through technology.

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Nimble Storage All-Flash Arrays

By Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

4.8
(146 Ratings)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, known as a global edge-to-cloud company, concentrates on a range of technology and innovation services to connect, protect, analyze, and act on all data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, focusing on addressing business challenges through technology.

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Hitachi VSP G Series

By Hitachi Vantara

4.6
(141 Ratings)

Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., offers modern data storage and infrastructure systems, intelligent data management and AI-powered hybrid cloud solutions. The company empowers customers to build a data foundation for sustainable business growth.

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Dell Unity XT

By Dell Technologies

4.5
(119 Ratings)

Dell Technologies helps organizations build their digital futures and individuals transform how they work, live, and play. It provides customers with a broad solutions portfolio for the data era, including traditional infrastructure and extending to multicloud environments. Dell's integrated solutions help customers modernize their IT infrastructure, manage and operate in a multicloud world, address workforce transformation, and provide critical solutions that keep people and organizations connected. It helps customers accelerate their digital transformations to improve and strengthen business and workforce productivity. With an extensive portfolio and a commitment to innovation, Dell offers secure, integrated solutions that extend from the edge to the core to the cloud, and offers software-defined and cloud native infrastructure solutions.

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IBM Storage FlashSystem

By IBM

4.2
(116 Ratings)

IBM is a well-established entity focused on technology and development. The primary mission revolves around fostering technological growth and enhancing infrastructure, achieved through focused developments and consulting services. By encouraging inventiveness and innovation, it is geared towards facilitating the transition of theoretical ideas into practical realities, thus improving global functionalities. IBM brings about transformation by creating advanced solutions that reshape and redefine the world.

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OceanStor 5000 V5 Series

By Huawei

4.8
(93 Ratings)
customers choice 2025

Huawei is a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. The company's main focus is to enrich human progress through innovative technologies. Huawei aims to ensure that connectivity is a basic need, emphasizing the importance of access to ICT and the benefits it can provide to a wide audience. The firm specializes in creating customer-focused innovations and establishing strong partnerships, developing capabilities across carrier networks, enterprise, consumers, and cloud computing sections. With operations in over 170 countries, Huawei has a significant global presence. The company's objective is to digitally connect every person, home, and organization in order to achieve a comprehensive connected, intelligent world. Through this, Huawei works to narrow the digital gap, facilitating access to broadband services.

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Hitachi VSP 5000 Series

By Hitachi Vantara

4.7
(83 Ratings)

Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., offers modern data storage and infrastructure systems, intelligent data management and AI-powered hybrid cloud solutions. The company empowers customers to build a data foundation for sustainable business growth.

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Dell EMC XtremIO X2 (Legacy)

By Dell Technologies

4.5
(80 Ratings)

Dell Technologies helps organizations build their digital futures and individuals transform how they work, live, and play. It provides customers with a broad solutions portfolio for the data era, including traditional infrastructure and extending to multicloud environments. Dell's integrated solutions help customers modernize their IT infrastructure, manage and operate in a multicloud world, address workforce transformation, and provide critical solutions that keep people and organizations connected. It helps customers accelerate their digital transformations to improve and strengthen business and workforce productivity. With an extensive portfolio and a commitment to innovation, Dell offers secure, integrated solutions that extend from the edge to the core to the cloud, and offers software-defined and cloud native infrastructure solutions.

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OceanStor 18000 Series

By Huawei

5
(75 Ratings)
customers choice 2025

Huawei is a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. The company's main focus is to enrich human progress through innovative technologies. Huawei aims to ensure that connectivity is a basic need, emphasizing the importance of access to ICT and the benefits it can provide to a wide audience. The firm specializes in creating customer-focused innovations and establishing strong partnerships, developing capabilities across carrier networks, enterprise, consumers, and cloud computing sections. With operations in over 170 countries, Huawei has a significant global presence. The company's objective is to digitally connect every person, home, and organization in order to achieve a comprehensive connected, intelligent world. Through this, Huawei works to narrow the digital gap, facilitating access to broadband services.

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Tintri VMstore T7000

By DDN

4.6
(74 Ratings)

DDN is the AI data intelligence company that empowers over 11,000 customers focused on unlocking real-time AI insights. The DDN Data Intelligence Platform supercharges more than 500,000 NVIDIA GPUs worldwide across a broad range of use cases, including autonomous driving, financial services, healthcare, research, and academia. Manage complex data, enhance performance, deliver cost savings, increase security and accelerate your AI workloads at-scale from edge to core to cloud.

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NetApp E-Series

By NetApp

4.9
(64 Ratings)
customers choice 2025

NetApp is a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software, and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services, and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere.

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Dell EMC SC Series (Legacy)

By Dell Technologies

4.6
(57 Ratings)

Dell Technologies helps organizations build their digital futures and individuals transform how they work, live, and play. It provides customers with a broad solutions portfolio for the data era, including traditional infrastructure and extending to multicloud environments. Dell's integrated solutions help customers modernize their IT infrastructure, manage and operate in a multicloud world, address workforce transformation, and provide critical solutions that keep people and organizations connected. It helps customers accelerate their digital transformations to improve and strengthen business and workforce productivity. With an extensive portfolio and a commitment to innovation, Dell offers secure, integrated solutions that extend from the edge to the core to the cloud, and offers software-defined and cloud native infrastructure solutions.

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Dell PowerMax

By Dell Technologies

4.8
(48 Ratings)

Dell Technologies helps organizations build their digital futures and individuals transform how they work, live, and play. It provides customers with a broad solutions portfolio for the data era, including traditional infrastructure and extending to multicloud environments. Dell's integrated solutions help customers modernize their IT infrastructure, manage and operate in a multicloud world, address workforce transformation, and provide critical solutions that keep people and organizations connected. It helps customers accelerate their digital transformations to improve and strengthen business and workforce productivity. With an extensive portfolio and a commitment to innovation, Dell offers secure, integrated solutions that extend from the edge to the core to the cloud, and offers software-defined and cloud native infrastructure solutions.

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Features of Primary Storage Platforms

Updated October 2024

Mandatory Features:

  • AIOps for threshold-based operational monitoring and observability to support proactive actions and infrastructure health. AIOps functionality is integrated with the vendor’s customer support capabilities, including digital analytics tools and problem resolution, capacity management, nondisruptive workload simulation, placement and migration, asset utilization costs optimization, performance optimization, and both full and cross-stack observability and reporting

  • Block-based STaaS offering available as a managed service or in conjunction with the end-user client as IT self-managed offering

  • Cyberstorage data resilience and protection capabilities that follows the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) for ransomware Identify, protect, detect, respond and recover capabilities. NIST CSF 2.0 includes additional changes and functions, including a sixth pillar: govern

  • SDS architecture that separates the vendor’s storage hardware from the storage operating software that manages the storage system and adjoining infrastructure. The SDS product supports on-premises storage and is integrated to a minimum of one hyperscale cloud platform server, storage or networking hardware to like or similar functionality and capabilities, as found in its on-premises appliance solution and integrated with vendor AIOps functionality. This allows customers to keep their data in the same vendor operating environment while providing portability between on-premises and adjacent multidomain infrastructure

Peer Lessons Learned for Primary Storage Platforms

Published May 2025

These lessons focuses on the responses to the questions: “If you could start over, what would your organization do differently?” and “What one piece of advice would you give other prospective customers?”

Peer Lessons Learned for Primary Storage PlatformsLessons learned by your peers shared on Gartner Peer Insights for Primary Storage PlatformsPeer Lessons Learned for Primary Storage PlatformsLesson 1LESSON1Ascertain PSP Storage Requirements; PrioritizeFuture Scalability of the PSPLesson 2LESSON2Evaluate Vendors Thoroughly and ValidatePSPs via POCLesson 3LESSON3Invest in Advanced Training and DevelopRobust Data Governance PoliciesLesson 4LESSON4Optimize Network Infrastructure and EmbraceAutomation for Operational Efficiencyn = 468Source: Reviews (468) submitted to Gartner Peer InsightsID: 6542602Gartner ®
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