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    512012017 Gartner Reprint LICENSED FoR DISTRIBUTION (bps gare comvhoms) Critical Capabilities for Object Storage Published: 37 March 2016 1D: 00271719 ‘Analyst(s): Arun Chandrasekaran, Raj Bala, Garth Landers Summary ‘rowing investments in Mode 2 IT projects and cost eduction efforts in core enterprise workloads are driving the demand fr objec storage. Her, we compare 12 object storage products against seven crcl capabiltes in use cases relevant to infrastucture and operons leaders. Overview Key Findings Infrastructure and operations leaders are attracted by the lower total cost of owmership and the scalabilty of object storage, whereas enterprise developers are attracted to its programmability, cloud portability and productivity improvements The object storage market has beon in a consolidation phase during the past (ow year, with notable acquisitions by 18M and HGST in 2018. The Amazon Simple Storage Service API has emerged as the de facto standard for data access ~ a growing number of vendors suppor the $3 APL, with varying degrees of compatibility. ‘The use cases for object storage in the enterprise ae evolving beyond archiving, due to increased innovation that focuses an performance, reliability interoperabilty and minimalist architectural designs. Recommendations Choose object storage products as alternatives to block and fle storage when you need huge scalable capacity reduced management overhead ang lower cost of ownership, Build on-premises object storage repositories with the hybrid cloud in mind, and evaluat dominant public cloud providers for data portabilty thei API support and level of compatibility with Select object storage vendors that offer a wide choice of deployment (software-only versus packaged appliances versus managed hosting) and licensing models (perpetual versus subscription). Train developers on best practices related to application design and the operational considerations relevant to an abject storage system. Strategic Planning Assumption 8y 2019, more than 20% of the storage capacity in enterprise data centers willbe deployed with softwaredefined storage (SDS) architectures based ‘on x86 harcware systems, which ie an inerease from today’ less than S%. What You Need to Know Object storage is pervasive asthe underlying platform for cloud applications that we consume in our personal lives, uch as content streaming, photo sharing and fil collaboration services. The degree of awareness and the level of adoption of object storage ae less in the enterprise, but they continue to grow, The Key drivers for the adoption of object storage in the enterprise are: ‘The explosion inthe amount of unstructured data and the resulting need for lower-cost, scalable, sel-ealing, mulitenant platforms for storing petabytes of data, New investments in private clouds and analytics, particulary in industries such as media and entertainment lf sclences, the public sector, and feducation/research, which demand scalable, cost-effective storage, Growing intrest from enterprise developers and DevOps tear mombers looking for agile and programmable infrastructures that can be extended tothe public loud, Object storage is characterized by access through RESTIul interfaces via a standard Interet Protocol (IP), such as HTTR that have granular, object- level security and rich metadata that can be tagged ot. Object storage products are aallable ina variety of deployment models ~ virtual ‘appliances, managed hosting, purpose-built hardware appliances or software that can be installed on standard server hardware, These products are capable of huge scale in capacity and many ofthe vendors included inthis research have production deployments beyond 10PB, They ae better sulted to workloads that requir high bandwidth than transactional workloads that demand high input/output operations per second (1OPS) and low Fateney. ‘The new generation of object storage products relies mainly on erasure-coding schemes that can improve availabilty at Iower-capacty overhead ‘and cost, when compared with the traltional redundant array of independent disks (RAID) schemes, The growing support for Amazon Simple ‘Storage Service (S3) AP| among the object storage vendors is stimulating market demand for these products although the level of compatibility With the S3 API wiely varies, anc there can sill be lockcin, duet proprietary methods of managing metadata, TT leaders who need highly scalable, selthealing and cost-effective storage platforms for large amounts of unstructured data should evaluate the ‘suitability of object storage platforms. They should use ths research as a basis to identify the appropriate produete for their uee cases. Analysis Critical Capabilities Use-Case Graphics htlps sin gartnercomidaciroprntsid=1-38E2S6l&ct=1604138 ats 512012017 Figur 1, Vendors Product Scores forte Over Use Case Gartner Reprint Product or Service Scores for Overall BM Cleversafe dsNet ee Seal ing a Hitachi Data Systems HCP «0 EMC Elastic Cloud Storage a: »: ‘loudian HyperStore a DataDirect Networks WOS EE: 0 ‘Caringo Swarm ss SwiftStack Object Storage a: 2 NetApp StorageGRID a HGST Active Archive System a: Red Hat Ceph Storage EE; 0 Huawei OceanStor UDS Es 1 2 3 4 5 As of March 2016 Source: Gartnearcn 2015) igure 2 Vendors Prost Sars for Aralyice Use Casa Product or Service Scores for Analytics BM Cleversafe dsNet ee Scality Ring «0: EMC Elastic Cloud Storage a « ‘Cloudian HyperStore a; Hitachi Data Systems HOP a : DataDirect Networks WOS Le ee ee ‘Caringo Swarm Es SwiftStack Object Storage a: 2 NetApp StorageGRID :.; HST Active Archive System a: Red Hat Ceph Storage a 32; Huawei OceanStor UDS 3 02 1 2 3 4 5 As of March 2016 Source: Gortne (March 2016) Figure 3. Vendors Product Scores fore Archiving Use Case hips sw gartner.com/dacroprints?id=1-33E 28618 sv20%2017 Garner Repent Product or Service Scores for Archiving BM Cleversafe dsNet a 2s Hitachi Data Systems HCP «0: EMC Elastic Cloud Storage ee: Salty Ring a; ‘loudian HyperStore eS {caringo Swarm 2: Databirect Networks WOS 3: SwiftStack Object Storage ss NetApp StorageGRID 30 HGST Active Archive System EE: Red Hat Ceph Storage a: 2 Huawei OceanStor UDS 2: 1 2 3 4 5 As of March 2016 Source: Grine (arch 207) Figure 4 Verdont Prout Sears forth Backip Use Caso Product or Service Scores for Backup Hitachi Data Systems HCP ee 02 IBM Cleversafe dsNet a: Sealy Ring ee: »: ‘Cloudian HyperStore ee: EMC Elastic Cloud Storage a ::: Databirect Networks WOS a: 7: ‘Caringo Swarm a: :: SwiftStack Object Storage 3s NetApp StorageGRID EE 3.20 HGST Active Archive System a: Red Hat Ceph Storage EE; 0 Huawei OceanStor UDS a: 1 2 3 4 5 As of March 2016 Source: Gartner (March 2076) Figure 5. Vendors Product Score for tne Cloud Storage Use Case hips sw gartner.com/dacroprints?id=1-33E 28618 512012017 Gartner Reprint Product or Service Scores for Cloud Storage BM Cleversafe dsNet 1: Sealy Ring «0; EMC Elastic Cloud Storage a « Clouin HyperStore Le Hitachi Data Systems HOP ee: DataDirect Networks WOS a: 7. Caringo Swarm a: «: SwiftStack Object Storage Le ee ee NetApp StorageGRID 3c HGST Active Archive System EN 23 Red Hat Ceph Storage EE Huawei OceanStor UDS Es; 1 2 3 4 5 As of March 2016 Source: Sartre (March 2018) Figure 6. Vendors Prosuct Scars forts Gantet Distribution Use Cass Product or Service Scares for Content Distribution Scalty Ring a BM Cleversafe dsNet a « EMC Elastic Cloud Storage ee: Hitachi Data Systems HCP a: »: Cloudian HyperStore ;.:: DataDirect Networks WOS «7: CCaringo Swarm ss: SwiftStack Object Storage a: HGST Active Archive System a: NetApp StorageGRID. Es; Red Hat Ceph Storage EE; 0 Huawei OceanStor UDS Es; 1 2 3004 8 As ofMarch 2016 Source: Gartner (March 2076) Vendors Ccaringo Swarm Based in Austin, Texas, Caringo was established in 2005 ard is privately held. Caringds main offering is Swarm, which can leverage standard hardware and supports the Amazon $3 API and the OpenStack Swift APL ‘Swarm can be paired with Filly, introduced in September 2015, which supports the lifecycle management of ile content in NetApp and Windows filers for transition to object storage. Customers like this capabilty to enable the archiving use case. Caringo continues to focus onthe healthcare vertical and Swarm has a number of governance features, including write once, read mary (WORM), legal hold and retention management atthe object level ‘Swarm offers erasute coding and replication with ts Elatle Content Protection features, There is no euppor for extending data to other ‘environments, euch as tape a ering te public cloud storage providers as part of a tiered architecture ‘Cloudian Hyperstore Cclousian isa smal venture-backed startup based in San Mateo, storage product, which was released in 2011 alifornia with roots in Japan. HyperStoresits Amazon S3-compatible object ana 512012017 Gartner Reprint HyperStore is software designed to run on commodity hardware, virtual machines (VMs) or as Cloudian-designed applances. HyperStore not only supports $3 as a compalible protocol on the frontend, ican tier objects to Amazon S3's public cloud storage service onthe back end. This gives HyperStore cloud storage gateway properties, which are an emerging tend among abject storage vendors. HyperStore relies heavy onthe Cassandra key/value store for metadata management ‘Clousian claims 100% protocol compatibility with Amazon S3. It's not 100% compatible; however, HyperStore is closely compatible and attempts to ‘Support large portions ofthe $3 API, (It does not support features such as bucket notifications.) Most HyperStore implementations are smal, with {ew deployments exceeding 2PB. Cloudian references indicated that the overall management of HyperStore could be improved, stating that some Configuration aspects are very manual, ands capabilities for monitoring the health of the system arent enterprisexeady. DataDirect Networks WOS DataDirect Netwarks (DDN) offers the WOS7000 snd WOS 9660 Archive Appliances as object storage platforms, The company is known for hs high-performance computing (HPC) storage produets, which ae used in some af the worlds top supercomputer. WOS is avaliable as a hardware appliance from ODN and as software, with reference architectures from partner, such as Dell, HP and Supermicro, ‘The product supports Amazon 83, as a plugin, and Switt AP compatoiliy nteroperabilty withthe company’s EXAScaler and GRIDScaler parallel file system apaliances is provided through fs WOS Bridge offering, DDN provides large volume capacity and high-performance throughput in terms lof seek/read time. These factors, in adetion to DDN hertage with HPC, lead customers toward active archiving and analytics use cases that involve the aggregation of big data \WOS doesnt implement authentication or encryption through its native REST API; however it allows access to any caling application if itknows a valid object identification. WOS assumes that datais properly secured f object IDs are hard to guess, but ths is not sufficient. WOS does not ‘support named keys for objects stored through its naive REST interface, requiring applications to persist an object identification returned tothe client to subsequently perform operations on fles. This particularly challenging wth mobile apalicatione, EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) is EMC's newest object storage platform; however it contains Laces to EMC's 1Syear lineage as a developer of object storage products. As such, ECS supports APIS from each EMC object storage product that came before it ncluding Centera and Atmos. ECS is also compatible wth the OpenStack Swift and Amazon $3 protocols, 0S is used by both publc-acing service providers and lage enterprises to provide object storage services that support extemal customers and internal users. Ths is made possible by ECS's multtenars foundation, which enables billing, metering and monitoring to be measured ata granular level. The ECS architecture has been significantly improved, compared with its EMC object storage predecessors, by employing a scale-out storage ‘architecture and a layered approach tothe outbound APIs and intemal data services. The result is an elegant design and a moresesiient platform, EMC has accumulated a significant amount of knowledge related to building scale-out storage platforms, However, maintaining technical debt in the form of existing APIs from previous products isa trade-off that wll cause the company to not be solely focused on serving modern application architectures, Asa result, ECS hedges between the old and the new, rather than defntvely focusing onthe current or the future, Moreover, not all ECS APIs support the same features, such as server-side enerypion and governance. The esultis that mary of the features attauted tothe ECS platform are supported only under certain conditions, Theres alo ile interoperability between the APIs, ané migration between them requires expensive professional services, HGST Active Archive System ‘Amplidata was one ofthe early object storage startups to embed seltrealing erasure cod algorithms, architecting them into a grid-based storage system, Founded in 2008, Amplidata was acquired by HOST in 2015, HCST is now a brand of Wester Digital ‘After the acquisition, HGST relaunched its product as HGST Active Archive System, which isa full rack solution, with capacities ranging from 1.2P8 to.4.7PB. i supports an S3-compatile API with dstrbuted erasure coding that enables Ito provide protection against site fallures. Ths product ses Helloseal PMR crves that provide high density and lower power consumption. By combining BtDynamics, whichis a checksum mechanism to prevert silent data corruption with ts stress-tested,high-capacty drives, HGST can potentially delver high data durability ints Active Archive system The Active Archive System product lacks several key features, including replication, WORM, and suppor for ile and non-S3 interfaces, Moreover, the lack ofa software-only procurement madel and limited independent software vendor 1S¥) integration can limit its appeal across abroad set of Use cases ang customer segments. The PB range starting size and high acquisition price ofthe Active Archive System create a high barrier for organizations that want to test the product at smaller capacities. Hitachi Data Systems HCP ‘The Hitachi Data Systems abject storage portfolio is a combination of tree products itachi Content Platform (HEP) HOP Anywhere — an enterprise file synow-share solution Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) — used as @ cloud onramp device HoP is available asa precon‘igured hardware appliance or as avetual software appliance and in an operating expencitur (opex)-based ‘consumption medel from Hitachi's partners oF Hitachi Cloud Services, HCP is a mature product with competitive security features, including robust ‘multtenancy and built-in encryption. It offers native WORM suppor, data destruction and digital signatures to ensure secure information Ife cycle ‘management. Local erasure coding was recently introduced to reduce capacity overheads for large object workloads. HCP supports remote ‘agynichronaus replication as well as an active-active topology tat allows parallel read/wrtes across configured sites belonging to the same namespace. In addition to its native API, HCP supports the Amazon S3 API ané Swift API, and it can enable tering into public cloud storage from providers euch as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google HoP's erasure coding is fied, it srt user-configurable and it cart span multiple locations. Customers that need erasure coding and cloud tering have the option of paying forthe higher-priced active license, or using the lower priced economy and extended licensing options, all of which stil include a cost for managing the data in the public clous Huawei OceanStor UDS htlps sin gartnercomidaciroprntsid=1-38E2S6l&ct=1604138 sna 512012017 Gartner Reprint ‘Since acquiring the Huawel-Symantec joint venture, Huawei has been aggressively investing in its storage business. Huawei has a diversified Portfalio that spans storage area network (SAN), network-altached storage (NAS) and object storage product lines. Huawels object storage product, UDS, delivers high-density storage nodes with as many as 7S harchlsk drives in a 4U enclosure, which are based ‘on ARM processors for lower energy consumption. The product supports local replication and erasure coding, and objects canbe asynchronously replicated to remote sites to mitigate site fallures. The UDS products based on a decentralized architecture of peer-to-peer nodes in which the ‘metadata is stored withthe objec to eliminate any single pont of falure and enable seamless scalabilty, Huawei UDS supports ite native API and the $3 API for data access. ‘The product can only be deployed as a packaged appliance thats sold by Huawei. It does not offer native encryption support and it doesnt support WORM or other compliance-elated features, Athough Huawei has achieved robust revenue growth inthe Asia/Pacific (APAC) region and Europe, its presence in the U'S. continues to be weak, due to political challenges ithas been unable to overcome IBM Cleversafe dsNet Founded in 2004 as a privately held company, Cleversafe was acquired by IBM in November 2015. Cleversafe's Dispersed Storage Network (deNet) is offered in various deployment models, including a physical or virtual apoance (through VMware), and certain components can be deployed as a Docker container or Linux OS daemon Cleversafe dsNet is cted forte scalability and ease of management. The management Interface contains features offered In functional tabs that enhance productivity. Erasure coding is applied to data upon ingest and the product is architect ina very distributed manner. Clevereafe deNet is aligned with a number of popular backup, archiving and cloud gateway ISVs to support associated use cases. Security is its major strength, with ‘many forms of encryation available and special support for audit Cleversafe dsNet supports the Amazon $3 and OpenStack Swift APIs; however, native Network File System (NFS) supports lacking. Cleversafe's ‘equistion by BM bears watching, because this could affect future development for enterprise customers, NetApp StorageGRID Based in Sunnyvale, California, NetApp delivers StorageGRID, which is available as a physical or virtual appliance, with support across the ‘company's storage portfolio, StorageGRID supports Common Intemet File System (CIFS) and NFS protocels, as wel as Cloud Data Management Interface (CDM, Swift and $3 APIs ‘Securiy capabilites include native atest encryption trong audit and reporting, and WORN, through the use of the company's Data Ontap ‘SnapLock features. The product has good ISV support or backup and archiving use cases, a8 wel as effective ter storage, with support for disk solid-state drive, tape and cloud options. NetApp has a fair number of PB-scale object storage customers. Object versioning isa work in progress and an area that needs improvement. Updated objects are managed as new objects with StorageGRIO, and require separate retention poliey and management. Beyond its virtual appliance, NetApp offers limited options for software-based deployments, due to the absence of reference architectures wth thie-party server OEMS. Red Hat Ceph Storage ‘Commercially cistributed and supported by Red Hat and others, Red Hat Ceph Storage is an open-source storage project. Red Hat has acquired Inktank, the primary code contebutor and support organization behind the Ceph Storage project. CCeph Storage is "block on object” storage software that runs on commodity hardware. The internals of Ceph Storage are an object store, and the block storage portions are built on that base. Most Ceph Storage implementations are primarily fr block storage service; however, its largest deployments (in terms ofthe overall amount of data) involve its use as an object store. The open-source ané community aspects of Ceoh Storage {act as ether positive or negative attributes, depending onthe preference af the particular customer. Some users are attracted to the community ‘aspects of Ceph Storage and the openness of its development, whereas others prefer the lower risk associated with commercial, closed-source products, Customers attracted to the community nature of Ceph Storage indicate that the abilty to communicate wih other Ceph Storage users {and view alist of outstanding bugs are important aspects in their decisions about using the product. CCeph Storage has basic multtenant capabilites and relies on native fle system encryption rather than server-side encryption. CephFS, the Ceph Storage file system, needs maturing, ad isnot ready for production. References indicated difficulty in managing, diagnosing and troubleshooting the Ceph Storage cluster when it is unhealthy, leading to longer problem resolution times. Scality Ring ‘cally develops object and scaleout ile storage software with RED in France and sales and marketing based in Silicon Valley. Scaliy’s Ring is deployed on commodity hardware, however i's often resold by HP and Dell on their own brand of servers ‘Scality is unique, compared with most other object storage vendors, n that many of its clients use Ring forts scale-out NAS capabilites, [Applications and users need not integrate wth a REST APIto take advantage of Scaltysresifence characteristics; they can simply use NFS or Server Message Block (SMB) to communicate with Ring and to get the benefits ofits distributed storage back end. Ring supports configurable erasure cocing and replication in a peer-to-peer architecture that provides efficiency at scale, with no single point of failre. Scalty has deeper ‘support for OpenStack than most other object storage vendors, in that t supports Cinder, Swift and Glance, Some of Scaltys largest customers use Ring asthe back end for email workloads, reflecting the lineage of Scalty’ founders in that market, ‘Scaliys $3 compatiblity is immature, compared with other object storage vendors, and t does not support significant aspects af the $3 protocol, ‘uch as object versioning, Bucket versioning, fe cycle policies, server-side encryption, eross-ite replication and event notification, Scalty’s native REST interface uses no security mechanisms for data-n-motion and relies on customers to secure the communication. Customer references reported that Scaly’s management and reporting capabilities are in need of improvement. SwiftStack Object Storage ‘SwiftStack’s Openstack Swift is an oper-source project avalable under the 2.0 license from Apache Software Foundation Enterprise customers can procure a software subscription from SwiftStack, which provides easier management, monitoring and runtime tools to ‘ease deployment and runtime challenges. SwiftStack i the primary contributor of software code to the OpenStack Swift project. It provides an out- ‘of-band controller to deploy, integrate and manage the storage nodes that can be deployed on compatible hardware and prebul reference htlps sin gartnercomidaciroprntsid=1-38E2S6l&ct=1604138 ens 512012017 Gartner Reprint architectures from OEM partners such as Cisco and Supe-micro. also provides an optional NFS/SMB gateway. The producti highly scalable, with support for multregion replication and erasure cocing. Swift APIis gaining support with a wide range of ISVs, and the product can also support the emulation of Amazon $3 APIs, SwitStack offer an S3-compatible interface, in addition tothe native Swift interface. ‘The produc lacks support for native encryption capabilities, End-user organizations need to work closely with the OEMs to optimize and tune the hardware to extract optimal performance from Openstack Swift, particulatly for small le/object environments Context The frst generation of object storage, In early 2000, manifested as contentaddressed storage (CAS). During thelate 2000s, the second phase of ‘object storage shifted the product focus to cloud uses, wih a development emphasis on a cost-effective cloud storage infrastructure, with erasure codes for storage-efficient protection and better WAN support. Cloud providers, such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft, bul thelr own storage infrastructures with object interfaces to offerit as an on-demand cloud storage service. The success of object storage services inthe cloud has had ‘significant effec on the on-premises vendor ecosystem and common access standards Key vendors that offer an object storage product include Caringo, Cloudian, DDN, EMC, HGST, Hitachi Data Systems, Huawel, IBM, NetApp, ‘Quantum, Red Hat, Sealy, SwiftStack and Tarmin. The market has been consolidating in the past few years, with NetApp and Red Hat having made ‘acquisitions to enter this market segment. In 2018, HGST acquired Amplidata and IBM acquired Cleversafe, one of the early pioneers inthe object, storage space. ‘The number af open-source options is also onthe rise. The following isa list of key open-source object storage projects: COpenstack Swift isthe most prominent open-source object store inthe market, wth avallabllt from the Apache community, several OpenStack distributions and specialized commercial vendors, such as SwiftStack CCeph is an open-source project supported by Red Hat, SUSE, Intel and DreamHost, among others it's @ unified storage architecture with black and object access, Mini Is an emerging vendor that provides an $3-compatible, lightweight, open-source object store to cater tothe needs of individual and enterprise developers. Openio isan open-source project that was incubated at Atos Origin, with commercial support now being provided by Vade Retro, a French company. More vendors ae stating to offer annual, subscription-based, alkinclusive,softwarelicensing models on top ofthe legacy perpetuaHicensing ‘models to attract customers to deploy their products. Product/Service Class Definition Object storage refers to devices and software that house data in structures called ‘objects’ and serve hosts via protocols (such as HTTP) and APIS. (such as REST, SOAP, Amazon Simple Storage Service [Amazon $3], Operstack Swift and COMI). Conceptually, objets are similar to files, in that they are composed of content and metadata. In general, objects support richer metadata than file storage by enabling users or applications to ‘assign attributes to objects that can be used for administrative purposes, data mining and information management, Critical Capabilities Definition Object storage products often outscore tracitioal block and file storage products in capacity scalabilty, secuity/multitenancy, total cost of ‘ownership (TCO) and manageabill, although they tend to lag in performance, interoperability and efficiency. Given the nascent state of the market, several features that clients expect in a traditional NAS system may be absent of less developed in object storage products, dve to design considerations or product immatuy Clients need to understand these trade-offs durng the procurement process. Enterprises should consider the following seven critical capabilities when deploying object storage products, Enterprises can work toward these ‘goals by evaluating object storage products in all capabilty areas, Capacity ‘The ability of the product to support growth in capacity in a neatly linear manner. examines object storage capacity scalability Imitations in theoretical and real-world configurations, such as maximum theoretical pacity, maximum abject size and maximum production deployment, Storage Efficiency ‘The abilty ofa product to support storage eiclency technologies, such as compression, singlerinstance storage/deduplcaton, tiring, erasure coding and massive array of idle disks (MAID) to reduce TCO. Interoperability ‘The ability f the produ support multiole networking topologies thire-party ISV applications, public cloud APIS and various deployment models Manageability ‘The automation, management, monitoring, and reporting tools and programs suppartedby the product In addition, ease of setup and configuration ‘and metadata management capabilities were considered, ‘These tools and programs ean Include slngle-pane management consoles, monitoring systems and reporting tls designed to help personnel seamlessly manage systems, moniter system usage and efficiencies, and anticipate and correct system alarms and fault canitions before or soon after they occur Performance ‘The persiode and aggregated throughput for reads and writes that can be delivered by the cluste in ea-world configutations Resilience ‘The platform capabilties for providing high system availabilty and uptime. Options include high tolerance for simultaneous disk and/or node failures, fault isolation techniques, bultin protection against data coruption, and data protection techniques, such as erasure coding and replication htlps sin gartnercomidaciroprntsid=1-38E2S6l&ct=1604138 ms 512012017 Gartner Reprint Features are designed to meet users’ recovery point objectives (POs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs). There are several methods for data protection in today’s object storage products. RAID is becoming ess popular, due to huge capacity overheads anc long rebuild times. The simplest \way to protect data is replication, which stores multiple copies of the data locally orn aclatibuted manner. A more innovative data protection scheme is erasure coding, which breaks up data int "wf fragments and ‘maditionl fragments across rtm nodes, ofering cients configurable choices, depending an their cost and data protection requirements. Enterprises often combine erasure coding and replication, because the former performs wel with large files, whereas the latter works well when there are large numbers of small les, WAN costs and performance Considerations in distributed environments are also factors, ‘Security and Multitenaney ‘The native secunly features embedded in the platform provide granular access contra, enable enterprises to encrypt information, provide robust rmulttenancy, offer data immutability nd ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Use Cases Analytics ‘This apples to storage consumed by big data analytics applications and packaged business intelligence (Bl) applications for domain or business problems. Performance (more specifically, bandwidth) resilience and scalabiliy are critical to success. These include features to tolerate cisk/node failures, versioning to facilitate check-sonting of long-unning applications and bandwidth to reduce time to insight Archiving ‘The eallest enterrse use case for object storage products, Ithas been used for more than a decade. Products provide cost-effective, scalable long-term data preservation. For this use case, object storage products are used to store immutable data for years and decades, Festures such as WORM, legal hold and object level versioning increase the attractiveness of object storage as an archiving target in termes of ease of access, affordability and data immutability Security, resilience, interoperabiliy and manageability (eg, indexing and metadata management features) are important selection considerations, ‘and are heavily weighted Backup Infrastructure and operations leaders have used abject storage products as backup targets for years, because they provide added scalability for large backup datasets, Object storage Is important for meeting increasing demands for diskcbased backup at ower cost. Resillence, storage efficiency, performance and interoperability witha varity of backup ISVs are important selection considerations, and are heavily weighted, Cloud Storage ‘This is the most prominent use case for object storage products. Most popular consumer and enterprise public clouds are built on an object storage foundation ‘This use case refers broadly to service pravider-bult public and private lauds and enterprise-built pubic, community, hybrid and private lauds, where the access is through REST/HTTP. This is different from VM storage (which is likely to be block storage) that providers or enterprises build for high-performance applications, such as databases, Resilonce, capacity, performance and secur are the most important consideration inthe choice of products, and are heavly weighted Content Distribution ‘This efers to Gistrbuted delivery of content for users across mutipl focations to ennance collaborstion ~ i, the mobile and social aspects of the Nexus of Forees. Intelligent and predictive content placement that s served via optimal network routes with high availabilty, high performance and robust data integrity are key considerations, Performance, resilience, interoperability and manageability are tical selection considerations, and are heavily weighted, Overall ‘This eters to general use case Vendors Added and Dropped Added ‘loudian: inthe 2014 release ofthis Critical Capabilities research, Cloudian did not yet meet Gartner’ inclusion criteria, because the company did ‘ot have a suffcient number of reference customers across al ofthe outlined use cases. However, the company now meets the criteria, along with the other requirements for inclusion Huawel: Inthe 2014 release ofthis Critical Capablltles research, Huawel didnot yet meet our inclusion criteria, cause the company did not have atleast 10 customers with 3007S ar mare in production. However, the company now meets the itera, along with the other requirements for inclusion Red Hat: Inthe 2014 release ofthis Critical Capabiltes research, Red Hat didnot yet meet our inclusion esteria,because the company id not have 2 sufficient rumber of object storage customers across all use eases. Howeve, the company now meets the criteria along withthe other requirements fo inclusion Dropped No vendors were dropped from the past Critical Capabilities research, Inclusion Criteria htlps sin gartnercomidaciroprntsid=1-38E2S6l&ct=1604138 ana 512012017 Gartner Reprint The products covered inthis research include object storage hardware or software offerings that are available for purchase and deployment as standalone products ‘The object storage system needs to meet the following criteria: There is @ public defined API for data access through a RESTfulinterface, ‘The vendor owns the object storage software intellectual property ‘There Is suppor for horizontal scaling of capacity and throughput through Independent node additions, Atleast 10 production customers have deployed 30078 plus of storage based on te platform, The product must have been deployed across all ofthe use cases outlined inthis research ‘The product must be installed in at least two major geographic regions worldwide The product must have been in genera avallbilty for at least 12 months prio: to the publication ofthis esearch ‘Table 1. Weighting fr Critical Capabilities in Use Cases Critical Capabilities ‘Anatyies Archiving Backup Content Distribution Cloud Storage Overall capacity 18% 12% 2% o% 20% 3% Storage Efficiency 8K 10% 20% a 5% a Interoperability 15% 15% 15% 1% m% 12% Manageability 10% 15% 8% 15% 10% 13% Performance 20% ox 15% 25% 16% 16% Resilience 10% 18% 25% 2% 25% 22% Security and Multtenancy 14% 22% % 10% 7% 0% Total 100% 100% 100% 100% 10% 100% As of March 2016 Source: Gartner (March 2016) This methodology requires analysts to identily the ertical capabilities for a class of producte/services. Each capabily is then weighed in terms of its relative importance for specific product/service use cases. Critical Capabilities Rating Fach of the products/services has been evaluated on the critical capabilities on a scale of 1 to 5; a score of 1 = Poor (most oral defined requirements are not achieved), while 5 = Outstanding (significantly exceeds requirements) Tile, Prove Seve Rtg on rel Capable fe MOST tae tet crest eainge cloutanDSBEKEE Frac petve dat” UOC OM agp Hat Seay Capahines Swarm” Hypersne NE Ghoug achive Satame OOO leese Coa Conk Rig Stonge Sytem HP Sore capisy asa 408 878s sige teeny «29S Sak wet Maageobiy 98897 Nga 8a a Seay and mawerony «390A 28k a8 at 512012017 Gartner Reprint fe HST ach tea ete cioudan Oa Ee ncive Date EMAL EM agp at say Canales Swarm” Hypurstre NA Gog ve Sate Senter leele Toca Cook Rng Sorage Systm Hee Soot 1s of March 2016 Soue:Gatnr (March 2016) ‘Table 3 shows the product/service scores for each use case. The scores, which are generated by multiplying the use-case weightings by the product/service ratings, summarize how well the critical capabiltes are met for each use case, ‘Table 3. Product Score Use Cases we 6ST ach t encases ergs chudan DMADIC! Binie Meig pan MAMA Magy tat aty Snrm Hopersore NEOWES Gg Acne Systams OSE Clewete SA cay Coen ng” OM Stoage Sytem cr songs sciveg 861 «898 =a «899 az ata oss tka Diaton clot 38a) oY naga aah ate ame 2808 1s of March 2016 Source: Garin (March 2076) ‘To determine an overall score for each product/service in the use cases, multiply the ratings in Table 2 by the weightings chown in Table 1. Evidence ‘Scoting forthe seven critical capabilites was derived from Gartner research onthe abject storage market. Each vendor responded in detail to a ‘comprehensive primary-research questionnaire administered by Gartner analysts. Extensive follow-up interviews were conducted with ll participating vendors, and reference checks were conducted with end users, This provides the objective process for considering the vendors’ ‘suitability for your use cases, Critical Capabilities Methodology ‘This methodology requires analyst to identity the tical capabilities fora class of products or services. Fach capabity is then weighted in terms of ts relative importance for specific product or service use cases. Next, products/services are rated in tems of how well they achieve each ofthe crtical capabilties.A score that summarizes how well hey mest the critical capabilities foreach use cases then calculated foreach product/service Critical eapabilties” are attributes that diferentiate products/servces ina class in terms oftheir quality and performance. Gartner recommends that users consider the set of ertieal capabilities as some of the most important eiteria for acquisition decisions. In defining the product/service category for evaluation, the analyst frst identifies the leading uses for the products/servies in this market. What reeds aro end-users looking to full, whien considering products/services in tis markot? Use cases should match common ellnt deployment scenarios. These dstinet client scenarios define the Use Cases. ‘The analyst then identifies the critical capabilities. These capabiltis are generalized groups of festures commonly required by this class of products/services, Each capabiliy is assigned a level of importance i fling that particular nee; some sets of festures are more important than ‘others, depending on the use case being evaluates Each vendor's product or service is evaluated in terms of how well t delvers each capably, on a five-point scale. These ratings are displayed side- bys forall vendors, allowing easy comparisons between the different sets of features Ratings and summary scores range from 1.0 to 5.0 1 100 or Absent: mest a ll defined requirements for a capability are not achieved al: some requirements are not achieved ood: meets requirements Excellent: meets or exceeds some requirements hips wn gartnercomidaciroprntsid=1-33E2S6l&ct=1604138 son 512012017 Gartner Reprint 5 utstanding:signifcamtly exceeds requirements ‘To determine an averll score for each product in the use cases, the product ratings a rmuktplie by the weightings to come up with the product ‘The critical capabilties Gartner has selected do not represent all capabilties fr ary product; therefore, may not represent those most important for ‘a specific use situation or business objective. Clients shauld use a critical capabilites analysis as one of several sources of input about a product before making @ product/service dec | Learn how Gartner can help you succeed et (oxtpsimwnigartnercomitechnalogy/eontactibecome--clientjspter.spebac--teprint-banne) {©2016 Garner he anclor it alfstes. Al ght reseree Garner is a regsered radomarkof Gane Inc ofits affiates, Tis puoteaion may nat be reproduce ot

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