NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced it has been recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms, continuing to acknowledge NetApp as Leader in this market from its inaugural edition of report in 2025. Evaluation was based on specific criteria that analyzed company's overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Additionally, 2026 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Storage Platforms report ranks NetApp first in Hybrid Cloud Storage Use Case and second in Hybrid Platform Services Use Case.
NetApp believes recognition validates company's ability to help customers address most pressing data challenges while offering more predictable hardware delivery timelines than competitors. NetApp Platform is intelligent, governed foundation that provides zero-copy access to organization's data, wherever it resides. It enables seamless connections to AI and analytics ecosystems, supported by secure, best-in-class hybrid multicloud storage. By delivering real-time, in-place access to AI-ready data, it eliminates need for constant extraction, transformation, and consolidation. With NetApp Platform, organizations can more easily unify storage for every cloud and workload, proactively protect against evolving threats, keep their data ready for AI, and maintain control needed to modernize with confidence and turn data into business advantage.
According to Gartner, Enterprise storage platforms provide file, block and object data services for structured and unstructured workloads. Heads of infrastructure and IT operations can use this research to evaluate vendor platforms and support capabilities for modern storage infrastructure.
"Even as markets, customer needs, and technology have evolved since NetApp was founded, we have been a steady and trusted leader in data infrastructure, helping organizations simplify complexity, protect their data, and turn it into business advantage," said César Cernuda, President at NetApp. "We believe continued Gartner recognition of NetApp as a Leader, even as it has updated market definitions to reflect changing environment, validates consistency of our innovation and execution, as well as ability to anticipate what customers will need next. With the NetApp Platform, we are building on that proven foundation to help customers build Intelligent Data Infrastructure, for any data, any workload, anywhere."
In 2026 Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Storage Platforms report, NetApp received its highest Use Case scores for Hybrid Cloud Storage and Hybrid Platform Services, which NetApp perceives as reflecting native integrations into every major cloud combined with unified control plane. NetApp believes these findings reinforce value of NetApp Platform in helping customers manage data seamlessly across hybrid multicloud environments, activate unstructured data for AI without costly movement, and operate with greater visibility, resilience, and control.
Gartner Magic Quadrant reports are culmination of rigorous, fact-based research in specific markets, providing wide-angle view of relative positions of providers in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct. Providers are positioned into four quadrants: Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries and Niche Players.
As essential companion to Gartner Magic Quadrant, Critical Capabilities report provides deeper insight into providers' product and service offerings by extending Magic Quadrant analysis.
About NetApp
For more than three decades, NetApp has helped world's leading organizations navigate change – from rise of enterprise storage to intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth. At heart of infrastructure is NetApp data platform – unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment.
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