Gartner casts runes to find object storage hero and 3 emerge: IBM

IBM's on-premises Cloud Object Storage has come out on top in Gartner's latest industry rankings. Critical Capabilities for Object Storage rates 13 on-premises object storage products on eight attributes – value, storage efficiency, security and multi-tenancy, capacity, interoperability, manageability, performance, and …

[Anonymous Coward]

Not looking at the right metrics...

Had "Reliability" or even "Functionality" been a factor, Scality would have been eliminated.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well now we know...

Now we know why IBM is short on cash *this* time: they had to hack together a handful of storage devices that actually worked decently for Gartner to test (presuming Gartner's tests are actually worthwhile).

IBM = Individual Bits Mangled

[unredeemed]

Re: Well now we know...

Gartner tests nothing, they ask references for a survey and score them. References are submitted by the manufacturer.