Western Digital today announced that Western Digital (HGST) has been recognized as a Challenger in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.
"Object storage adoption is rapidly expanding as companies look to not only preserve and protect data but increasingly derive greater strategic value from it through analytics and machine learning," said Phil Bullinger, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center Systems Business Unit, Western Digital. "The volume, velocity and variety of unstructured data generated today are dramatically challenging the scalability and efficiency of traditional data center architectures. Our ActiveScale™ object storage systems have proven to deliver outstanding scalability, performance and resiliency at unmatched TCO value in some of the largest and most challenging on-premises deployments in the industry. By taking advantage of our easy-to-deploy ActiveScale object storage systems, our customers are shifting their focus from infrastructure to driving greater insight and value into their businesses."
