StorageGRID Alternatives (September 2025)

Unified storage solutions from NetApp deliver reliable data storage strategies that brings file and block storage into a single, scalable data management platform. Truly unified for any data type, workload, or application.

Merge new levels of simplicity and flexibility with NetApp® ONTAP® unified storage operating system. Eliminate data silos, power your data and simplify your hybrid multicloud. Test-drive ONTAP Unified Storage OS today.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security, and compliance.

Accelerate and consolidate all your workloads with hyper-efficient, high- performance unified storage that supports block, file, object, and AI data infrastructure.

Turn a world of disruption into opportunity with intelligent data infrastructure from NetApp. Realize seamless flexibility—any data, any workload, any environment—with the only enterprise-grade storage service embedded in the world’s biggest clouds.

Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.

Access your data whenever and wherever you want. Respond faster to business requests. Get set for tomorrow’s technology challenges.

Get more out of the cloud with cloud services for IT and data management from NetApp®. Unlock the potential of the cloud while improving speed and efficiency.

FlexPod is a secure, smart, sustainable, hybrid platform engineered to transform infrastructure and operations. FlexPod unites innovative compute, storage, networking, and management to help customers accelerate the delivery of modern workloads and future-proof their environments.

Store, manage, and simplify all your unstructured data and hybrid workflows in one platform, anywhere - at the edge, in the core, or in any cloud.

Disk Shelves and Storage Media for NetApp AFF, ASA and FAS systems support your business and provide enterprise-grade infrastructure. Check out our models and specifications to choose what's best for your business.

Securely store any type of data with Oracle Archive Storage. Archive storage provides long-term data storage for digital assets, online backup, records compliance and other data retention needs.

Optimize your hybrid cloud strategy with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP). Span on-premises and cloud storage for intelligent data management, unlocking insights across environments.

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

Learn how NetApp technology delivers end-to-end virtual infrastructure management. Cut complexity and boost performance in your VMware virtual environments.

NetApp E-Series Hybrid Flash. Built for dedicated, high-bandwidth applications like data analytics and disk-based backup that need simple, fast, reliable SAN storage.

IT teams need on premise secure data storage solutions that balances cost, reliability and scalability. Meet the Nexsan line of enterprise-class storage.

Documentation and resources for NetApp HCI. Learn how how to install, deploy and maintain NetApp HCI.

PowerScale is a flexible and secure scale-out NAS (network attached storage) solution. Select from all-flash, hybrid, archive, and multicloud solutions for unstructured data.

ECS, an enterprise object storage solution enables scalability, manageability, and resilience to meet the demands of modern business.

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS9-2 simplifies IT environments and lowers customer costs with high-performance unified storage capabilities and Oracle Database optimizations.

S3-compatible object storage by Gcore. Get the opportunity to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time.

MinIO's High Performance Object Storage is Open Source, Amazon S3 compatible, Kubernetes Native and is designed for cloud native workloads like AI.

Create a multicloud strategy across any cloud for your workloads, applications, and data using Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) services.

An open, massively scalable, software-defined storage system that efficiently manages petabytes of data.

Get your business integrated with software driven storage solutions from Dell Technologies. Find future ready data solutions for your enterprise needs.

Backblaze B2 provides unlimited data storage in the cloud at 1/5th the cost of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

IBM Cloud Object Storage is a scalable and resilient managed data service on IBM Cloud, offering an alternative to block and file storage.

Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) provides industry-leading scalability.Fully managed object storage service to store and access any amount of data from anywhere.

IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks delivers secure persistent storage resources for your Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift container environments.

S3-compatible object storage with a built-in CDN that makes scaling easy, reliable, and affordable. $5/mo.

Object Storage reliably and securely stores any type of data in its native format. It is ideal for building modern applications that require scale and flexibility, and is often used for data consolidation, analytic data lakes, backup, and archive.

Long-term, secure, durable Amazon S3 object storage classes for data archiving, starting at $1 per terabyte per month.

InfoScale 8.0.2   Veritas InfoScale is a software-defined infrastructure solution that is integrated directly with applications to provide high availability and disaster recovery for critical business services, including databases, customer applications and multitiered business services. It delivers a common availability platform that supports physical, virtual, and all major public cloud environments, providing the flexibility to optimize availability for any platform based on business requirements.   To learn more about InfoScale and what it can do for you, please visit our InfoScale product page: https://www.veritas.com/availability/infoscale   What’s new in InfoScale 8.0.2   With this release, InfoScale expands on Veritas’ decades-long position as the leader in this space. InfoScale 8.0.2 introduces significant security and usability improvements while simultaneously expanding our platform support to include the latest and most widely adopted hyper-converged and multi-cloud environments.    Expanded cloud support – Oracle Cloud, AWS VMC, Google Cloud GCVE, AWS MultAttach, Azure Shared Disk, Azure Managed Identity, better support for VVR stretch clusters Enhanced security – Secure Boot support (Linux), Windows Volume Encryption, SecureFS ransomware protection, support for the latest updates to OS, database and virtualization platforms Improved ease of use – simplified deployment using Ansible templates and native CPI installers, VIOM improvements for ransomware protection and VVR, Windows wizards for shared-storage configuration in cloud Core functionality enhancements – Support S3 target, OpenStack Manila and Cinder support, improved DMP performance (FPIN), NVMe fencing (AFA), FSS resync improvements   See Release Notes for details

Protect critical company and customer data across all of your clouds. Leverage NetApp ONTAP to enhance data security, encrypt your hybrid cloud and comply with most regulations.

Hybrid Cloud Storage Array (HCSA) is an enterprise-level storage array that integrates with the Alibaba Cloud storage gateway, allows you to manage cloud storage resources just as local storage.

Cloud Insights from NetApp monitors your storage infrastructure so you can quickly troubleshoot and optimize public clouds and private data centers.

Market-leading data protection service built for Kubernetes, simplifying compliance and data access, and empowering app owners to backup and restore apps.

Object Storage Service (OBS) provides secure, stable, and virtually infinite scalable object storage. You can store massive amounts of data on OBS.

Wasabi is making cloud data storage simple, affordable, fast and secure. It’s all we do, and we do it better than anyone.

Deliver microsecond-response to your most demanding enterprise apps—like databases and data analytics—with EF-Series Flash Storage Arrays.

Experience high-performance software-defined block storage with DataCore SANsymphony. Software-defined storage for SAN and HCI environments.

Combine compute, block storage, and file storage in a single comprehensive and adaptable software-defined infrastructure.

Quantum delivers the most comprehensive and cost-efficient end-to-end data management solutions designed for the AI era.

Consolidate, scale, and protect your data with Nasuni’s hybrid cloud solutions. The Nasuni File Data Platform is the leading hybrid cloud infrastructure.

NetApp offers many cloud services, including the rapid provisioning of virtual desktop with WVD or Remote Applications, including rapid integration with Azur...

Learn about 3PAR StoreServ, AI-powered to deliver enterprise class, Tier-1 all-flash array data storage solutions that provide unmatched agility and efficiency.

"StorPool is the most efficient, reliable & scalable data storage software for Cloud Builders, Hosters & MSPs. Starts from 1 million IOPS and 0.1 ms of latency."

Elevate your storage experience with all HPE Nimble storage flash array storage that’s radically simple, built for cloud and guaranteed to deliver 99.9999% availability.

Container storage for OpenShift

Simplify hybrid cloud management with HPE Synergy platform, a composable infrastructure solution for managing compute, storage and networking

Simple hyperconverged storage that eliminates downtime. We help organizations store, protect, and use their data at and from the edge.

Discover how the next generation cloud backup data protection system, HPE StoreOnce backup appliance, helps reduce complexity and deliver disaster recovery in the cloud.

Pure Cloud Block Store™ helps reduce your cloud storage costs with superior data reduction and enterprise-grade data services.

The Pure Storage Evergreen® subscription portfolio offers choice and flexibility in how you purchase and consume storage, based on the non-disruptive Evergreen architecture.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is a feature that ensures the right number of EC2 instances are available for an application's load, maintaining availability by automatically adding or removing EC2 instances. To use Auto Scaling, in the EC2 Console, create a launch template, then create an Auto Scaling Group (ASG).

Get modern data backup and recovery solutions with the Cohesity Data Cloud—a simplified platform for hybrid and multicloud environments. Eliminate silos, reduce TCO, and strengthen resilience. Recover instantly with data backup software.

Reduce storage cost and complexity with VMware vSAN, enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides the easiest path to HCI and hybrid cloud.

Fully-managed enterprise edge cloud services - compute, networking, storage and more - designed for service providers and the modern enterprise.

StarWind SAN & NAS is a ready-to-go Linux-based VM deployed onto an industry-grade hypervisor, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V.

OpenDrives empowers innovators with unimpeded and unlimited access to content and data. Access your content more easily with OpenDrives.

An open-source Backend-as-a-Service stack for web & mobile applications, based on RESTful APIs.

Portworx is persistent storage for containers and databases. Operate data services for containers including persistent storage, HA, snapshots, backup, encryption and disaster recovery. Try today!

IBM Storage Protect is a data backup and recovery software for software defined storage. See Storage Protect for Cloud for SaaS backup and recovery.

Cohesity gives you both data security and data management. Defend against ransomware with immutable backup, AI-based early threat detection, and rapid data recovery.

data protection as a service, improve agility, flexibility, data protection service, dpaas, hybrid environments, data resilience

QNAP offers NAS/DAS, networking, and intelligent video solutions, as well as myQNAPcloud Storage cloud storage and Cloud NAS, to meet the storage, performance, security, and scalability needs of individuals and businesses.

Store application data on durable, high-performance block volumes where data stored is persistent meaning volumes can be connected, detached and moved as needed, even beyond the lifespan of the current compute instance.

Huawei FusionCube HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure solution that integrates computing, storage, network, and management. Discover it now!

More Back to Basics Learn the fundamentals of NetApp core technologies. Installments in this series so far: Chapter 1: Thin Provisioning Chapter 2:

Azure Blob storage provides scalable, cost-efficient object storage in the cloud. Store and access unstructured data for your most demanding workloads.

IBM Cloud File Storage is flash-backed, durable and fast NFS-based cloud data storage on IBM Cloud.

Get market-leading performance, efficiency and cyber resilience while streamlining complexity across all environments with the IBM Storage FlashSystem platform family.

Harness AI with Oracle Database 23ai to power app development and critical workloads, enhancing your data operations for free.

What is Virtual SAN (vSAN) from StarWind? Software that eliminates any need for physical shared storage and delivers high performance by simply mirroring internal hard disks and flash between hypervisor servers.

IBM Cloud Block Storage is a high-performance cloud data storage service on IBM Cloud.

Gain full visibility and granular control and enforcement with a built-in foundation for zero trust and SASE frameworks with HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager.

Spot by NetApp's cloud automation solution uses advanced analytics to continuously optimize your cloud infrastructure resources.

Azure API Management offers a scalable, multi-cloud API management platform for securing, publishing, and analyzing APIs.

An in-memory, distributed, NoSQL datastore solution that lets your applications access, process, and analyze data.

Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

Simplify and extend your VMware environment with Dell VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure appliances. Streamline your IT operations and lower costs.

Need better insight into the security of your cloud environments? Learn how Lacework can automate cloud security, prioritize risks, and help you scale.

Simplify and accelerate your IT with HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged, an intelligent, hyper-efficient HCI solution for edge, VDI, and general virtualization workloads.

Uptycs protects workloads wherever they run and gives you security visibility from dev to runtime. Reduce risk, vulns & misconfigurations from a single UI.

Modernize your data center while reducing energy consumption with FlashStack—simple, sustainable, hybrid-cloud infrastructure from Cisco and Pure Storage.

ScaleGrid makes it easy to deploy database hosting for MySQL™, PostgreSQL®, Redis®, MongoDB®, and, Greenplum Database® on every major cloud. Try it for free!

Power branch, WAN and security with a secure SD-WAN as the foundational component for architecting a secure access service edge (SASE).

Confluent makes it easy to connect your apps, data systems, and entire business with secure, scalable, fully managed Kafka and real-time data streaming, processing, and analytics.

Powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service built for Google scale. You can use our client SDKs to store images, audio, video, or other user-generated content.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable fully managed elastic NFS file system for AWS compute instances.

Learn how HPE ProLiant servers provide trusted secure compute that unlocks data value and powers data insights and innovations from edge to cloud.

ownCloud, your file platform. The most essential business tool for enterprise-grade file sync and share.

SFTPCloud is a scalable and highly-available service for creating secure, managed SFTP and FTP servers powered by the cloud storage of your choice.

Veritas Alta Data Protection protects data across all clouds while also using AI, automation and cloud-native storage technology to eliminate cyber vulnerabilities and cut TCO costs as much as 50%

FileCloud is an enterprise file sharing, sync and backup solution that offers private, public and hybrid cloud content services.

IBM Turbonomic software uses AI to optimize the performance, cost and compliance of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments.

Low-touch virtual infrastructure with LXD at any scale. Built on top of Linux containers, LXD offers a unified user experience in managing system containers, virtual machines and clusters. Easily configurable, flexible and secure way to run your workloads.

Connect and protect thousands of users, IoT devices, and the vast amounts of distributed data generated today.