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The Symbols for IT Brand Leadership
World’s Top Data Centers is published by IT Brand Pulse, the only analyst firm that conducts on-going IT brand research. The surveys, which are not vendor-sponsored, monitor the pulse of IT pro perceptions for Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation Leadership for hundreds of product categories each year. As a result, our award logos have become the symbols for IT brand leadership and are proudly displayed by market leaders in every major product segment. The tables below include the results of our 2016 brand leader surveys voted by IT Pros.
Cloud & On-Premise – May, 2016
Voted by IT Pros
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Market Leader | Price Leader | Performance Leader | Reliability Leader | Service & Support Leader | Innovation Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Backup & Archive as a Service | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS |
| Cloud Dedicated Enterprise Servers | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS |
| Cloud Enterprise Class Storage | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS |
| Cloud SSD Storage | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS |
| Cloud Virtual Desktops | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware |
| Cloud Virtual Servers | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS | AWS |
| Cloud Unified Communications | Microsoft | Microsoft | Microsoft | Microsoft | Microsoft | Microsoft |
| On-Premise vs. Cloud Backup & Archive as a Service | EMC & Veeam (tie) | AWS | EMC | EMC | AWS | AWS |
| On-Premise vs. Cloud Dedicated Enterprise Servers | HPE | AWS | HPE | HPE | AWS | AWS |
| On-Premise vs. Cloud Enterprise Class Storage | EMC | AWS | EMC | EMC | AWS | AWS |
| On-Premise vs. Cloud SSD Storage | EMC | Pure Storage | EMC | EMC | EMC | EMC |
| On-Premise vs. Cloud Virtual Desktops | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware |
| On-Premise vs. Cloud Virtual Servers | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware |
| On-Premise vs. Cloud Unified Communications | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco |
SDN/NFV & Software Tools – April, 2016
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Market Leader | Price Leader | Performance Leader | Reliability Leader | Service & Support Leader | Innovation Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Layer 4-7 NFV Services Platform | Cisco | VMware | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | VMware |
| SDN Enabled Switches | Cisco | Dell | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco |
| SDN Monitoring | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| SDN Platform | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco |
| Unified Communications | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco |
| Application Performance Management Tools | Microsoft | Microsoft | Microsoft | Microsoft | Microsoft | Microsoft |
| Business Intelligence Tools | Oracle | Microsoft | SAP | SAP | Oracle | Oracle |
| Functional Testing Tools | IBM | HPE | IBM | IBM | HPE | IBM |
| Identity & Access Management Tools | IBM | CA Technologies | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IT Infrastructure Monitoring Solutions | CA Technologies | SpiceWorks | CA Technologies | CA Technologies | Nagios | SpiceWorks |
| Security Info & Event Management Solutions | Splunk | Splunk | Splunk | Splunk | SolarWinds | Splunk |
| Virtualization Management Tools | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware |
Networking & Scale-out Storage – March, 2016
Voted by IT Pros
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Market Leader | Price Leader | Performance Leader | Reliability Leader | Service & Support Leader | Innovation Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethernet Network Monitoring | SolarWinds | SolarWinds | Cisco | SolarWinds | Cisco | Cisco |
| Embedded Blade Server Networking | HPE | Dell | HPE | Cisco | Cisco | HPE |
| Enterprise Ethernet NICs | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel |
| Ethernet Core Switches | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco |
| Ethernet Top of Rack Switches | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco |
| Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing | Citrix | Citrix | Citrix | Citrix | Citrix | |
| WAN Optimization | Riverbed | Riverbed | Riverbed | Riverbed | Riverbed | Riverbed |
| Open Networking Switch (Bare Metal Switch) | Dell | Dell | Dell | Dell | Dell | Dell |
| Bare Metal Switch OS | Cumulus | Cumulus | Cumulus | Cumulus | Cumulus | Cumulus |
| Scale-out File Storage | EMC | EMC | EMC | EMC | Red Hat | EMC |
| Scale-out Object Storage Appliance | EMC | EMC | EMC | EMC | EMC | EMC |
| Scale-out Object Storage Software | IBM/ Cleversafe |
Red Hat | IBM/ Cleversafe |
IBM/ Cleversafe |
Red Hat | IBM/ Cleversafe |
| Servers for Software Defined Storage | Cisco | Dell | Cisco | HPE | Dell | Super Micro |
| Special Achievement: Contributions to Open Server Technology, 2012-2016 | HPE |
Server and Database – February, 2016
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Market Leader | Price Leader | Performance Leader | Reliability Leader | Service & Support Leader | Innovation Leader |
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| Dense Low Power Microserver | HPE Moonshot |
HPE Moonshot |
HPE Moonshot |
HPE Moonshot |
HPE Moonshot |
HPE Moonshot |
| Enterprise Blade Server | HPE | Dell | HPE | HPE | Dell | Dell |
| Enterprise Rackmount Server | Dell | Dell | Dell | Dell | Dell | Dell |
| White Box Server | Dell | Dell | Dell | Dell | Dell | Dell |
| Enterprise Server LOM and MLOM | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel |
| Enterprise Server Processor | Intel Xeon |
Intel Xeon |
Intel Xeon |
Intel Xeon |
Intel Xeon |
Intel Xeon |
| Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware | VMware |
| Enterprise Cluster OS | Microsoft | Red Hat | Red Hat | Red Hat | Microsoft | Microsoft |
| Enterprise Server OS | Microsoft Windows Server | Red Hat Linux | Red Hat Linux | Red Hat Linux | Microsoft Windows Server | Red Hat Linux |
| Integrated System | Cisco | Dell | Cisco | Cisco | IBM | Cisco |
| In-Memory Database | Oracle | Microsoft | Oracle | Oracle | Oracle | Oracle |
| NoSQL Database | Amazon Web Services |
Amazon Web Services |
Amazon Web Services |
Microsoft | Microsoft | Amazon Web Services |
| SQL Database | Oracle | Microsoft | Oracle | Oracle | Microsoft | Oracle |
Networked Storage – January, 2016
Voted by IT Pros
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Market Leader | Price Leader | Performance Leader | Reliability Leader | Service & Support Leader | Innovation Leader |
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| Converged Network Adapters | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco |
| Deduplication Backup Target Appliances | EMC | EMC | EMC | EMC | EMC | EMC |
| Enterprise HDDs | Seagate | Seagate | Seagate | Seagate | Seagate | Seagate |
| FCoE Switches | Cisco | Brocade | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco | Cisco |
| Fibre Channel Disk Arrays | EMC | Dell | EMC | EMC | EMC | EMC |
| Fibre Channel HBAs | QLogic | QLogic | QLogic | QLogic | QLogic | QLogic |
| Fibre Channel Switches | Brocade | Brocade | Brocade | Brocade | Cisco | Brocade |
| iSCSI Disk Arrays | Dell Storage |
Dell Storage |
Dell Storage |
Dell Storage |
Dell Storage |
Dell Storage |
| Mid-Range Tape Drives | Quantum | Quantum | Quantum | Quantum | Quantum | Quantum |
| NAS Disk Arrays | NetApp | NetApp | NetApp | NetApp | NetApp | NetApp |
| Tape Libraries | IBM | Quantum | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| Unified SAN/NAS Disk Arrays | NetApp | NetApp | NetApp | NetApp | EMC | NetApp |
