Three European Storage Services Vendors Named as IDC Innovators

Three European Storage Services Vendors Named as IDC Innovators
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New IDC Innovators report is recognizing three EMEA-based storage services vendors. These companies are CTERA Networks, StorPool and Quobyte, and they are recognized for their engineering efforts to help service providers (SPs) overcome their storage-related challenges.

CTERA Networks offers SPs a platform to deliver hybrid local/cloud backup and file sync and share services, hosted in customers’ own datacenters to meet compliance needs. StorPool eliminates single points of failure and guarantees end-to-end data integrity by aggregating all capacity and performance into a single pool of storage. Quobyte delivers a highly scalable, horizontal storage infrastructure turning servers into high-performance storage systems.

“European SPs are evaluating software-defined, cloud-ready storage services that allow them to offer IT as a service from behind their own firewalls and datacenter networks, so they can have strong control over data governance as well as meet regulatory compliance (GDPR),“ said Archana Venkatraman, Research Manager, Datacenter Research at IDC. “These Innovators are expanding the range, capabilities and technology of storage services to help SPs overcome some storage-specific challenges.“

IDC Innovators reports present a set of vendors, under $100 million in revenue at time of selection, chosen by an IDC analyst within a specific market that offer an innovative new technology, a groundbreaking approach to an existing issue, and/or an interesting new business model. It is not an exhaustive evaluation of all companies in a segment or a comparative ranking of the companies.