Complimentary Report Provides Organizations with Guidance on the Best Cybersecure 10PB+ NAS Solutions for Deployment Today
OMAHA, Neb., (April 15th, 2025) – DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Cybersecure 10PB+ NAS Solutions – US Edition Report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides organizations with guidance on the best cybersecure 10PB+ NAS solutions for deployment today. The report is available for download at no charge with registration.
NAS solutions’ support for NFS and SMB continues to make them practical choices for all size organizations. Simple to set up, configure, and deploy, broadly adopted, and well-understood, the continued use and growth of NAS seems certain. However, these same strengths make NAS solutions targets during ransomware events where ransomware may attempt to:
- Encrypt data stored on them, including snapshots or backup files.
- Exfiltrate data stored from them.
- Steal credentials to gain administrative privileges to the NAS solution itself.
- All the above.
In response, modern NAS solutions typically offer multiple cybersecurity features to protect data from attacks, including:
- Anomaly detection that monitors for unusual read or write activity.
- At-rest encryption so that bad actors cannot read any data if exfiltrated.
- Cloud integration for backup, replication, and storage tiering.
- Immutable snapshots to facilitate fast, tamper-proof data restore.
- Integrations with Active Directory (AD) to authenticate individual administrators.
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) to authenticate individual logins.
- Write Once Read Many (WORM) technologies to prevent ransomware from changing data.
- Zero trust integration.
By utilizing more cybersecurity features and NFS and SMB protocols supporting encryption, organizations may continue embracing these technologies. However, they will encounter many cybersecure NAS solutions from which to choose that possess notable differences in their respective architectures.
In preparing this report, DCIG formally evaluated about 40 different NAS solutions of which 23 met DCIG’s criteria for a cybersecure 10PB+ NAS solution. The general categories under which the 300+ evaluated features of these cybersecure 10PB+ NAS solutions fell included:
- Architecture
- Cyber Resilience
- Data Protection
- Deployment
- Efficiency
Performance Management- Performance Resources
- Product Management
- Technical Service and Support
Performance ManagementBased on these criteria, DCIG awarded the following cybersecure 10PB+ NAS solutions a DCIG TOP 5 ranking (in alphabetical order):
- Arcitecta Mediaflux
- Hitachi Vantara VSP One File
- NetApp AFF A50
- Nutanix Unified Storage
- Tintri VMstore T7080
The full DCIG TOP 5 report is available for download immediate. The full report contains additional details such as:
- A list of the 23 cybersecure 10PB+ NAS solutions evaluated for this report.
- The state of cybersecure NAS solutions.
- Five common cybersecure NAS solution use cases.
- Available cybersecurity features on NAS solutions.
- Features common across all cybersecure 10PB+ NAS solutions.
- Distinguishing features of the DCIG TOP 5 Cybersecure 10PB+ NAS Solutions.
- Differences between the DCIG TOP 5 Cybersecure 10PB+ NAS Solutions.
- A profile of each DCIG TOP 5 Cybersecure 10PB+ NAS solution that lists at least three (3) ways each one distinguishes itself from the other solutions.
Individuals may access the full report at no cost by following the link below.
2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Cybersecure 10PB+ NAS Solutions – US Edition Report
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If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Todd Dorsey at 844.324.4552 x 904 or email todd.dorsey@dcig.com.