Gartner Hype Cycle
Storage Technologies 2018

The 2018 Gartner Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies Report evaluates storage-related hardware and software technologies in terms of their business impact, adoption rate and maturity level to help IT leaders decide where and when to invest. For the first year, Gartner has dedicated a section of the report to Container-Native Storage, a huge trend as enterprises adopt Kubernetes to drive their Hybrid- and Multi-cloud strategies. In this report you will find insights such as:

• The business impact of container-native storage.
• The keys players to know in the container-native storage market.
• The difference between a Docker volume plugin and a cloud-native storage solution
• When to use container-native storage as part of your hybrid-cloud strategy.

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* Gartner report: Hype Cycle Storage Technologies 2018

John McArthur

Published July 13, 2018