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Hedvig Recognized by Gartner as a 2016 ’Cool Vendor’ in Storage Technologies
May 2016 by Marc Jacob
Hedvig, the
company modernizing storage and accelerating enterprise adoption of
private and hybrid clouds, today announced that it has been named
one of this year’s "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies" by Gartner
Inc. This recognition, coming just a year after Hedvig emerged from
stealth, we believe highlights the growing importance of the
software-defined infrastructure market for IT administrators and
large organizations.
Each year, Gartner identifies "Cool Vendors" in key technology areas and publishes a
series of research reports evaluating pioneering vendors and their products and
services. According to the "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2016" report,
"many organizations are evaluating technologies that will drive efficiency, such as
higher-performing and more automated storage, cloud-based solutions, and data
management and backup and recovery products that allow for proactive problem
avoidance and increased resource utilization and optimization."
"We launched last year with a mission to challenge traditional storage approaches,
which we believe fall flat when faced with the velocity of change in today’s
businesses. Over the past year we’ve made significant progress and have provided our
customers with a solution that can keep pace and deliver the most complete, most
flexible software-defined storage platform on the market," said Avinash Lakshman,
founder and CEO of Hedvig. "We’re honored to be selected as a Gartner Cool Vendor
and will continue to provide enterprises with the type of modern storage solutions
that today’s dynamic market demands."
The Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform is a complete, unified platform for highly
elastic, flexible and scalable next-generation infrastructure. Hedvig’s
software-only approach provides the flexibility for bimodal IT — supporting both
mode 1 and mode 2 workloads with protocols like iSCSI and NFS along with object
storage APIs like S3 and Swift. Hedvig is the only software-defined solution that
delivers the power of distributed systems with the simplicity of cloud and a
complete set of enterprise capabilities for any application, hypervisor, container,
or cloud environment.
Hedvig was one of five vendors named in the report. The full Cool Vendors in
"Storage Technologies, 2016" report from Gartner can be found here.
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Gartner "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2016" by Dave Russell, Pushan Rinnen,
Garth Landers, Raj Bala, Arun Chandrasekaran, Julia Palmer, Alan Dayley, Stanley
Zaffos, Joseph Unsworth.
