Magic Quadrant: Public Cloud Storage Services

The public cloud storage services market continues to rapidly evolve, with market domination by the hyperscale vendors. With the price wars subsiding, CIOs and infrastructure managers should prioritize vendors' product strength, breadth of ecosystem and TCO as key purchase criteria. 

Public cloud storage is basically infrastructure as a service (IAAS) which provides storage services through a REST API using internet protocols. 


                                                Source: Gartner (June 2015)

PUBLIC CLOUD STORAGE  SERVICES VENDORS

1. Amazon Web Services: 

Locations: Amazon has cloud regions in North Amercia- US west & East and US GovCloud; EMEA - in Germany & Ireland; Asia/ Pacific - Japan, Singapore & Australia

Key Services: Amazon Elastic block store, Amazon simple storage service, Amazon elastic file system and Amazon glacier

Strengths:

• Has a strong storage portfolio and it continues to develop its portfolio to meet the growing needs of customers across a wide set of use cases. 
• It has hundreds of customers operating at Petabyte(PB) scale with few of them even exceeding 100 PBs which shows the customers trust in AWS.
• It has an impressive marketplace ecosystem of SaaS partners that allows its customers to more easily manage, analyze and protect the data that sits its underlying storage tiers.
• The Amazon S3 API enjoys ecosystem support and is a preferred cloud storage API.

2. Microsoft:

Locations: Microsoft has cloud regions in North America (multiple regions in the US); EMEA (Ireland, Netherlands); Asia/Pacific (Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore) and South America (Brazil)

Key Services: Azure blob storage, Azure files

Strengths: 

• It is an established company with continuing large investments in cloud infrastructure that indicate positive credibility and longevity and has a growing list of enterprise focused channel partners.
• Its customers can take advantage of existing microsoft purchase and support agreements to ease the exploration of its cloud storage capabilities. 

3. Google: 

Locations: Google has cloud storage in North America (US), EMEA (Belgium), Asia/Pacific (Taiwan)

Key Services: Google Cloud Storage, Persitent disk storage, Google Cloud Storage Nearline

Strengths:

• Its a price leader with the lowest capacity costs. 
• It has a promotional pricing programs, such as free inter-region data transfers or subsidized SSD tiers
• Has strong investments in an extensive global network infrastructure, with impressive content delivery network (CDN) availability in remote locations. 

 

Read the complete report at Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services, Worldwide