HPC User Site Census: Storage Suppliers — May 2017

May 3, 2017|Addison Snell, Christopher Willard Ph.D., Laura Segervall

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report, part of our HPC User Site Census series, provides an examination of the suppliers of storage systems installed in a sample of High Performance
Computing (HPC) user sites. Intersect360 Research surveyed a broad range of users about their current computer system installations, storage systems,
networks, middleware, and supporting software. The resulting data is presented in a series of reports throughout the year, each describing different
aspects of the HPC end-user landscape.

Key findings of the survey include the following:

• Storage capacity continues its onward and upward trend. Aggregate site-level storage capacity
reported at 391 sites reached 2.4 exabytes, an increase of 24% from our 2015 report.

• Installations of petabyte or larger storage systems are increasing and account for 37% of
all storage systems reported. The top three most frequently reported capacities were two petabytes, one petabyte, and 100 terabytes.

• DataDirect Networks (DDN) had the largest share with 14.8% of survey responses, followed
by Dell EMC with 12.7% and IBM with 11%. All other suppliers had less than 10% share of reported storage systems. No vendor dominated every sector,
region, or capacity.

• About 4.7% of the reported storage systems were identified as cloud-based systems, including
both public and private cloud. Amazon continues to be the primary supplier of cloud-based storage services to the HPC community. For commercial sites,
Amazon was the fifth most mentioned supplier.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2

COMPANIES MENTIONED IN THIS REPORT 3

TECHNOLOGIES COVERED IN THIS REPORT 4

INTRODUCTION 5

RESULTS AND ANALYSIS 6

Figure 1: Number of Site-Level Storage Systems Installed at Each Site 6

Figure 2: Distribution of Capacity for Site-Level Storage Systems 7

Figure 3: Distribution of Capacity for Site-Level Storage Systems by Year of Last Modification 8

Site-Level Storage Systems by Supplier 9

Table 1: Leading Storage Suppliers at HPC Sites 9

Share of Installations by Year Acquired 10

Table 2: Share of Top Supplier Installations by Year Acquired 10

Survey Share versus Revenue Share 10

Cloud Storage Suppliers 10

Site-Level Storage Systems by Supplier and by Sector 11

Table 3: Top Storage Suppliers at HPC Sites by Sector 11

Site-Level Storage Systems by Supplier and by Region 11

Table 4: Top Storage Suppliers at HPC Sites by Region 12

Site-Level Storage Systems by Supplier and by Capacity 12

Table 5: Top Storage Suppliers at HPC Sites by Capacity 12

Figure 4: Top Named Suppliers at HPC Sites by Capacity 13

CONCLUSIONS 14

Figure 5: Share of Storage Systems with a PB or More of Capacity by Report Year 14

APPENDIX A: STORAGE SUPPLIERS AT HPC SITES 16

Table A1. Storage Suppliers at HPC Sites Based on Number of Installed Systems 16

APPENDIX B: METHODOLOGY 18

COMPANIES MENTIONED IN THIS REPORT

Ace Computers

Advanced HPC

Aeon Computing

Amazon Web Services

Apple

Aspen Systems

Atipa

Atos

Auristor

Chenbro

Cohesity

Colfax

Cray

DataDirect Networks

DataOn

Dell EMC

Drobo

Dropbox

E4 Engineering

Equallogic

EUROSTORE

Fraunhofer

Fujitsu

GenOuest

Google

Hitachi Data Systems

HP Enterprise

Huawei

IBM

Infortrend

Intel

International Computer Concepts

Lenovo

NEC

NetApp

Open-E

Oracle

OrangeFS

Panasas

Penguin

Powerleader

Promise Technology

Qsan

Quanta

Quantum

RAID Inc

Samsung

Scherm

Seagate

SGI

Silicon Mechanics

Spectralogic

Supermicro

Synology

Terascala

Transtec

Western Digital

TECHNOLOGIES COVERED IN THIS REPORT

• Storage elements

• Storage systems

• Network-attached storage (NAS)

• Storage area networks (SAN)

• Archives

• Cloud storage

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