DCIG has started researching SDS object storage solutions available in the market today. The outcome will be a series of DCIG TOP 5 SDS Object Storage Solution Reports covering the top-ranked solutions. While still early, these six insights stand out among the twenty products researched thus far.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly moved from experimental projects to strategic business initiatives. Organizations now expect AI to improve productivity, accelerate decision-making, increase revenue opportunities, and create competitive advantages. As AI deployments mature, however, enterprises frequently discover that GPUs and AI models alone do not determine success. Increasingly, the underlying storage infrastructure dictates whether AI initiatives can efficiently scale into production.
DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 AWS S3 Alternatives – Enterprise Edition Report. This report provides enterprises with guidance on the best AWS S3 alternatives for them to choose from today.
Every year in April a trip to Las Vegas lies in wait for DCIG to attend the annual NAB Show. This year was no different. DCIG attended the event for two days to meet with the various storage providers exhibiting at the show. The solutions that DCIG encountered at the show were all considered for the DCIG TOP 3 Best of NAB Show – Storage Category. This year Geyser Data, Nimbus Data, and Storj earned the right to walk away with this award.
By using modern, enterprise object-based software-defined storage (SDS) solutions in conjunction with high-performance storage servers, enterprises can achieve new levels of performance and cost savings. Join this February 11th webinar to learn about the latest trends in SDS object storage solutions and how to leverage modern storage server technologies for today’s AI workloads.
DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its inaugural report, the 2025-26 DCIG #1Midmarket SDS File and Object Backup Target Report. This DCIG #1 report provides midsized organizations with guidance on the best SDS file and object backup target for deployment in their production backup environments.
DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Enterprise SDS Object-based Backup Target Report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides enterprises with guidance on the best SDS object-based backup targets for deployment in today’s enterprise backup environments.
DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket SDS Object-based Backup Target Report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides midsized organizations with guidance on the best SDS object-based backup targets for deployment in today’s production backup environments.
Building upon DCIG’s four TOP 5 reports on physcial NAS backup targets, DCIG has initiated research into the growing segment of utilizing software-defined storage as backup targets. DCIG intends to publish one or TOP 5 reports based on this research. It invites all SDS backup target providers to participate.
In 2019 Nutanix made a lot of noise around its Nutanix Mine product which DCIG wrote about a few years ago. This offering presents Nutanix’s technology as a secondary scale-out storage offering optimized for use in backup. One could configure Mine as either a backup storage target or an integrated backup appliance with both backup software and storage.
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