OSNexus Achieves DCIG's TOP 5 Award for Enterprise SDS Block Storage Solutions for 2025-2026

by Lauren Grob

BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 15, 2024 — OSNexus is proud to announce that its QuantaStor platform has achieved DCIG's TOP 5 Award for Enterprise SDS Block Storage Solutions for 2025-2026. This report is now available for download and provides enterprises with guidance on the best SDS block storage solutions for deploying business- and mission-critical IT environments.

In preparing this report, DCIG formally evaluated over 20 different SDS block storage solutions based on multiple different features and capabilities. The general categories under which the features of these SDS block storage solutions fell included:
●    Data protection and security
●    Deployments options
●    Product and performance management
●    Technical support

"Software-defined storage (SDS) block storage solutions have come of age as they offer multiple proof points that demonstrate their enterprise levels of interoperability, performance, and support," said DCIG CEO and Principal Analyst, Jerome Wendt. "Adopting these solutions give enterprises new flexibility to simplify their storage management tasks while better positioning them to embrace today's hybrid cloud world."

OSNexus QuantaStor Block Storage feature highlights:

  • Broad support for public clouds and virtualized environments: Enterprises may deploy QuantaStor in any of the three major general-purpose public clouds (AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure.) QuantaStor's broad support for the cloud extends to supporting backup and auto-tiering to cloud object storage targets from multiple providers.

  • Massive scalability: QuantaStor runs on 64-bit commodity servers, or virtual machines, and scales out using either physical or virtual nodes and supports many different hardware vendors. QuantaStor virtually combines the compute and storage resources of the Storage Grid server nodes, enabling it to scale to over 100+PB per storage grid.

  • Multiple options to dynamically move storage pools within a QuantaStor Storage Grid: QuantaStor's high availability feature includes automatic failover and asynchronous remote replication. These features facilitate data migrations of storage pools as well as fast failovers of storage pools within a Storage Grid. QuantaStor's highly parallelized HA failover system delivers these functions.

"With the recent shake up in the hypervisor market we're seeing increased demand for QuantaStor block storage deployments," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus. "Through partnerships with Supermicro and Seagate we've worked together to deliver turn-key appliances to make deployment of new systems leveraging the latest technologies easier than ever."

Read the 2025-26 DCIG Block Storage report with QuantaStor's solution profile here.