Object Storage Market Scan Workshop
Stop choosing storage based on "gut feel" or legacy brand loyalty. Our Market Scan Workshop provides a structured, objective environment to evaluate the rapidly evolving 2026 object storage landscape. By leveraging the world-renowned Kepner-Tregoe (KT) Decision Analysis framework, we strip away vendor bias and internal politics to align your infrastructure with your actual business requirements. Whether you are evaluating software-defined options or integrating Cyber Resilience into your storage architectures, this workshop ensures you invest in the right platform for your needs—not just the one with the best marketing material or personal relationships.
What to Expect
This interactive 6–8 hour workshop can be delivered as a single session or in modular tracks. Together we will:
Assess Your Environment & Goals
Review your current Object Storage architecture or changing File Storage requirements, performance challenges, security posture, and growth objectives.
Compare OEM Architectures
Evaluate how each vendor approaches Object Storage:
- Cloudian
- Dell
- Everpure
- Hitachi
- HPE
- IBM
- MinIO
- NetApp
- Scality
- VAST Data
Evaluation Matrix
Objectively score vendors against weighted criteria such as:
- Design & Deploy
- Data Protection and Redundancy
- Security
- Performance
- Data Management Features and Policy
- API and Protocol Support
- Cost Optimization and TCO
- Customer specific needs
Goals & Objectives
- Accelerate Decision-Making: Save weeks of trial and comparison—focus only on the best-fit OEMs that match your weighted criteria.
- Bridge Teams for Alignment: Collaborate across storage practitioners, security, and IT operations to align priorities and ensure cross-functional buy-in.
- Leverage Expert Insight: Gain knowledge from experts, real-world lab testing, and a neutral, vendor-agnostic evaluation approach.
- Enable Strategic Planning: Use the results not only for selection, but also to inform deployment strategies, integration plans, and even procurement roadmaps.
Who Should Attend?
- Storage practitioners
- IT Infrastructure and Operations Leaders
- Security and Compliance Stakeholders
- Networking Stakeholders
- CIOs or Business Unit Leaders interested in infrastructure modernization
Benefits
Down-Select & Roadmap
Can be used to initially narrow the field to the top 2 OEMs best aligned to your needs and build a roadmap for next steps, such as Proof-of-Concepts, lab testing, or procurement. If the effort leads to a POC then the same process can be used in conjunction with a test plan to make a final selection while creating an audit trail on why one particular OEM was chosen over the others.