This is a list of positioning statements used by firms who make storage products using Flash memory. For the most part these statements come from the first line of press releases. The list was compiled for a session I was chairing at the 2013 Flash Memory Summit. However, it’s updated periodically when new vendors appear or old ones disappear.
Positioning Statements
- Aberdeen — a leading manufacturer of servers and storage
- AC&NC — custom designed and pre-configured JetStor plug-and-play storage solutions that meet and exceed each customer’s application(s) requirements
- Amax — a leading innovator of Dynamic Enterprise IT & High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions
- Assurance — leading The Way In High Performance Enterprise, Cloud and HPC Storage Solutions
- Astute Networks — the leading provider of performance storage appliances
- Atlantis Computing — the leading provider of Software-Defined Storage
- Avere Systems — the leader in network-attached storage (NAS) optimization
- Balesio — the leading provider of Native Format Optimisation (NFO) solutions for unstructured data
- BiTMICRO — a leading developer and manufacturer of flash-based SSD (solid state drive) technology, products and solutions.
- BridgeSTOR — the company Advancing Deduplication to the Cloud
- CacheIO — the high performance storage leader for intense media applications
- Calxeda — a leader in the low power server market
- Coho Data– a leading innovator in web-scale flash storage for the enterprise
- Cisco — the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected
- Condusiv — the leader in high-performance software optimizing technology, people and businesses
- Coraid — a leading provider of scale-out Ethernet storage solutions
- DataCore — the premier provider of storage virtualization software
- DataDirect Networks — the world leader in massively scalable storage
- Dell — listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more
- Delphix — the leader in agile data management
- Dot Hill — a leading provider of SAN storage solutions
- Echostreams — a leading provider of server, storage, and system packaging technologies for today’s fast growing vertical markets such as Cloud, Datacenter, Video/broadcasting and Telecommunications
- EMC — a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service
- Enmotus — provides users with their critical data when they need it
- ExaGrid — the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication
- Fastor — engaged in bringing future-proof solutions to the rapidly growing Cloud and Enterprise SSD markets
- Fixstars — Speed up your Business
- Foremay — ULTRA FAST, HIGH RELIABILITY, ULTRA LOW POWER, SECURED SSD
- Fusion-io — delivers the world’s data faster.
- GreenBytes — a developer of full-featured virtual desktop optimization solutions that uniquely support existing infrastructure
- Gridgain — a real time Big Data software company
- Gridstore — the leading provider of optimized storage for the modern data center
- HGST — develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, innovative external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data
- HP — creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people,businesses, governments and society
- Huawei Symantec — a leading provider of storage, networking and security solutions
- IceWEB — an award-winning Unified Data Storage appliance provider for cloud and virtual environments, as well as the highly secure, scalable IceBOX BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Private Digital Cloud Solution
- Infinio — inventor of downloadable storage performance
- iXsystems — builds rock solid enterprise-class servers and storage solutions
- JDV — a cutting-edge developer of innovative enterprise-class SSD server appliances
- Kaminario — the leading scale-out all-flash array provider
- Kove — a pioneering leader in high performance storage
- LSI — designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters, mobile networks and client computing
- Marvell — a global leader in providing complete silicon solutions enabling the digital connected lifestyle
- Micron — one of the world’s leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions
- Nasuni — a provider of enterprise storage to large, distributed organizations
- NephoScale — creator of the NephOS next generation cloud infrastructure services platform
- NetApp — creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs
- Nexsan (Imation) — a global tiered storage and data security company
- Nimble Storage — the leading provider of flash-optimized hybrid storage solutions
- Nimbus Data Systems — the leading provider of unified all-flash storage systems for enterprise and cloud infrastructure
- Nutanix — the leading provider of hyper-efficient, massively scalable and elegantly simple datacenter infrastructure solutions
- OCZ — a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems
- Panzura — a leading provider of global cloud storage solutions
- Permabit — the recognized leader in data efficiency technology
- Pivot3 — a leading provider of converged storage and compute appliances
- Proximal Data — the leading provider of hypervisor I/O intelligence software solutions
- Pure Storage — the all-flash enterprise storage company
- Qsan — making data smart
- RAID Inc. — an end-to-end customized solutions provider in HPC, Big Data, and Virtualized Environments
- SanDisk — a global leader in flash memory storage solutions
- SGI — the trusted leader in technical computing and Big Data
- SimpliVity — a provider of simplified IT infrastructure solutions for virtualized environments
- Skyera — a disruptive provider of enterprise solid-state storage systems designed to enable a large class of applications with extraordinarily high performance, exceptionally lower power consumption and cost effectiveness relative to existing enterprise storage systems
- SolidFire — the leader in all-SSD storage systems designed for large scale cloud infrastructure
- Starboard Storage — a provider of unified hybrid storage systems that simplify and consolidate NAS and SAN storage for midsize enterprises
- sTec — a leading global provider of solid-state storage solutions
- StorageQuest — a global leader in data and archive management software and hardware
- StorTrends — Performance Storage with Proven Value
- SuperLumin Networks — a leading provider of scalable, high-performance media proxy and application acceleration solutions
- Supermicro — global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing
- Symform — a revolutionary, distributed cloud backup service
- Tegile — a leading provider of hybrid storage arrays for virtualized server and virtual desktop environments
- Tintri — the leading producer of storage for virtualization and cloud environments
- Violin Memory — provider of memory-based storage systems
- Virident Systems — a performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions
- Virtium — a leading innovator of storage and memory solutions designed specifically to meet the dynamic requirements of embedded systems
- WhipTail — the data storage-industry innovator powering faster applications and more energy efficient computing for today’s global businesses via flash storage
- X-IO — a recognized innovator in the storage industry
About the Author
David X. Lamont is an accomplished marketer and a partner at Marketingsage, a PR and lead generation firm that specializes in marketing data storage, data management, and enterprise software products. He can be reached by email at blog [at] marketingsage.net. Fellow marketers and IT professionals are invited to join his network on LinkedIn and to subscribe to this blog (see sidebar).