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The Rise of the Enterprise Storage Platform

October 16, 2025

Historically, enterprises chose storage systems largely based upon how well they delivered on specific features. These included high availability, high capacity and performance, resilience and scalability, among many others. While these features still matter, enterprises should increasingly seek out modern storage platforms that come ready for deployment in hybrid cloud environments. These platforms offer AIOps capabilities, many more cybersecurity features, and better accommodate today’s consumption-based models.

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4th (and Final) Competitive Intelligence Report in Series Examines HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 and IBM Storage FlashSystem

September 25, 2025

Enterprise storage systems have evolved to become modern storage platforms. These storage platforms still deliver features such as high availability, performance, reliability, and technical support. However, they have matured to offer new features that play a greater role in today’s enterprises. These include resolving data center complexity, future proofing storage investments, and protecting against cybersecurity threats, among others.
To help enterprises meet these challenges, DCIG has recently produced a series of competitive intelligence (CI) reports. These specifically evaluate how the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 compares to various competitors.
DCIG has previously published CI reports that evaluate how the B10000 compares to Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, and the NetApp ASA r2 storage systems. Now DCIG announces the availability of the fourth and final DCIG Competitive Intelligence report (link) in this series that evaluates how the B10000 compares to the IBM Storage FlashSystem.

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6 Competitive Differentiators between HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 and Pure Storage FlashArray

March 20, 2025

Enterprise storage solutions represent a core component of enterprise IT infrastructures that must now possess new features to meet modern IT challenges. As such, enterprises must scrutinize how well these solutions position them to address these challenges. DCIG’s recently published Competitive Intelligence Report highlights six features that HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 and Pure Storage FlashArray respectively offer to meet these challenges.

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Acquisition of Infinidat by Lenovo Examined by DCIG with Input from Grok and ChatGPT

January 23, 2025

Like almost every other organization in the world, DCIG has been engaging various AI tools to help in its analysis. DCIG by no means finds any AI tool either foolproof or 100% reliable. However, we find AI tools add value, some more so than others.

After evaluating multiple AI tools, DCIG has been trending toward primarily using ChatGPT and Grok to assist in its research. This week, considering the announcement that Lenovo plans to acquire Infinidat, we engaged ChatGPT and Grok to get their respective takes on this news.

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DCIG – StorPool Webinar Examines How SDS Block Storage is Winning its Place in the Data Centre

December 4, 2024

Highlighting DCIG’s research into modern SDS block storage solutions, DCIG Principal Analyst, Jerome Wendt, will join StorPool Storage’s Product Lead, Alex Ivanov, for a webinar on December 11, 2024, at 11 am UK time. Attendees will learn about: updates on common use-cases for enterprise SDS block storage; modern SDS block storage solution features and differentiators; critical criteria of DCIG’s evaluation; and highlights of StorPool Storage to meet today’s modern enterprise storage needs.

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