ARMONK, N.Y., July 24, 2017
/PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) has been recognized as a Leader in
the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays (SSA) for the
fourth year in a row.1
According to Gartner, "Vendors in the Leaders quadrant have the
highest scores for their Ability to Execute and Completeness of
Vision. A vendor in the Leaders quadrant has the market share,
credibility, and marketing and sales capabilities needed to drive
the acceptance of new technologies. These vendors demonstrate a
clear understanding of market needs; they are innovators and
thought leaders; and they have well-articulated plans that
customers and prospects can use when designing their storage
infrastructures and strategies. In addition, they have a presence
in all four major geographical regions, consistent financial
performance and broad platform support."
IBM's position as a leader comes after it announced its
development of Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) solutions to
provide clients the ability to significantly lower latencies in an
effort to speed data to and from storage solutions and systems as
well as new hybrid-cloud, all-flash family of storage solutions for
mainframe users, which helps automate the movement of data to and
from the cloud.
Clients rely on these technologies to quickly access the
mounting volumes. For example, Sidra, a groundbreaking hospital,
biomedical research and educational institution, chose IBM
solutions to manage and store clinical genome sequencing data as
well as to provide the organization's biomedical informatics
technology infrastructure capabilities that will serve as a
national resource. The IBM platform is used for data management and
storage, bioinformatics and High Performance Computing (HPC).
A number of IBM solutions underpin Sidra's analytics and data
architecture, including:
- IBM Flash Storage systems to accelerate access to critical
meta data by the Sidra community;
- IBM Software defined infrastructure as a workload and
resource manager, to ease the management of big data analytics, and
to scale up capabilities to manage HPC analytics involving hundreds
of thousands of jobs and vast amounts of data.
"Client deployments, such as Sidra, demonstrate IBM's
differentiation with our wide range of storage solutions – both all
flash and Software defined storage - that bring clear
advantage to client environments from medical and research
facilities to in retail organizations," said Ed Walsh, general manager, IBM Storage and
Software Defined Infrastructure. "These clients drive our
commitment to continually develop innovative solutions – for
example NVMe - that will provide increased business value from our
clients' oceans of data, be that on premises or part of a hybrid
cloud environment."
For more information about IBM Flash Storage, visit
www.ibm.com/storage/flash and follow us on Twitter @IBMStorage.
1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays, 13 July 2017
ID: G00315723 Analyst(s): Valdis
Filks, Joseph Unsworth,
Santhosh Rao, John Monroe
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IBM Media Relations
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