Coldago Research (https://www.coldago.net/)
just released its last report, the Map 2022 for Unstructured Data Management.
It represents an independent study and analysis of the data management
landscape for enterprises unstructured data during the past twelve months.
Data management is a large topic with sometimes fuzzy
boundaries. As mentioned above, it has been considered for this report only
unstructured data for open systems around various solutions capabilities such
analytics, data movement, security, governance and compliance, product
architecture and management, media, systems and devices support.
Each of these topics having several sub-categories with
more than 60 criteria in total. The study excludes pure backup, archive or data
access vendors and also ones with limited alignement with selection's criteria.
As a general rule, Coldago doesn't compare products in
its Maps but analyzes companies playing in a domain. It means that a vendor is
studied in a multi-dimension approach considering its company profile, business
and strategy, products, solutions and technologies. So clearly the report is
not a product comparison, it ranks companies in a specific segment. Having said
that, too many point products also creates confusion and complexity. It also
considers partnerships, oem and reseller agreements but listed companies must
own their products and technologies and control associated developments and can
leveraged open source components. It also has been decided to include open
source solutions based on its impact on the market for several years.
Coldago has collected lots of data during the past 12
months meeting vendors, end-users and partners, scrutinizing products and
companies announcements, case studies, reference architectures, solutions
developments, integrations and partnerships. All of these are then digested,
segmented, grouped and normalized all this data to make comparison and ranking
easier.
The 20 vendors selected and analyzed in this report are,
by alpha order:
Arcitecta, Atempo, Cohesity, Commvault, Data Dynamics,
Datadobi, Dell, Grau Data, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, iRODS, Komprise, NetApp,
Nodeum, PoINT Software & Systems, QStar, Spectra Logic, StarFish,
StrongLink and Veritas.
The Map doesn't reveal any leaders but 3 challengers:
Atempo, Data Dynamics and Komprise.