There’s a number of vendors that sell enterprise storage hardware or offer cloud-based enterprise storage. View Webopedia’s Enterprise storage vendor list here.
Enterprise storage is a broad category that includes products and services designed to assist large organizations with saving and retrieving digital information. Organizations can choose to purchase and deploy on-premises enterprise storage systems, or they can choose to store their data with an external cloud computing service.
Recommended Reading: Webopedia’s enterprise storage definition.
The following list of vendors sell enterprise storage hardware or offer cloud-based enterprise storage:
Enterprise Storage Hardware Vendors
Companies that sell enterprise storage hardware include the following:
– Dell
– Direct Data Networks (DDN)
– EMC
– Fujitsu
– Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)
– HP
– IBM
– NetApp
– NetGear
– Oracle
– PureStorage
– SanDisk
– Tandberg Data
– Whiptail
– X-IO
Cloud-Based Enterprise Storage Vendors
Companies that offer cloud-based enterprise storage include the following:
– ADrive Enterprise
– Amazon Web Services
– Box.com
– Egnyte
– Google
– IBM
– Microsoft Windows Azure
– Nirvanix
– Rackspace
– StorSimple
– Zetta
Open Source Enterprise Storage
Open source projects related to enterprise storage include the following:
– Aoetools
– Ceph
– FreeNAS
– Gluster
– iSCSI Enterprise Target
– Libvirt
– Lustre
– OHSM
– OpenAFS
– Openfiler
– OpenSMT
– oVirt
Cisco, Brocade, Emulex and QLogic are the biggest makers of enterprise storage networking switches and adapters.
This article was originally published on January 24, 2014
