Industry Aug 21, 2026
The same six vendors hold the Leaders quadrant for the second year running: Everpure, Huawei, HPE, NetApp, Dell Technologies, and IBM. NetApp and Dell cluster mid-quadrant; NetApp's year included FlexPod AI validated designs with Cisco, sovereign/air-gapped deployments on Google Cloud, and the ASA (block-only ONTAP) platform push.
Why it matters: confirms ONTAP's position in enterprise storage — relevant if you're justifying NetApp in your stack or studying for NCDA.