NetApp announced that it has been recognised by Gartner as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms, continuing its recognition as a Leader in this market since the inaugural edition of this report in 2025. The evaluation was based on specific criteria that analysed the company’s overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Additionally, the 2026 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Storage Platforms report ranks NetApp first in the Hybrid Cloud Storage Use Case and second in the Hybrid Platform Services Use Case.
NetApp believes this recognition validates the company’s ability to help customers address their most pressing data challenges while offering more predictable hardware delivery timelines than its competitors. The NetApp Platform is an intelligent, governed foundation that provides zero-copy access to an 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 the need for constant extraction, transformation, and consolidation. With the NetApp Platform, organisations can more easily unify storage for every cloud and workload, proactively protect against evolving threats, keep their data ready for AI, and maintain the control needed to modernise 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 organisations 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 the changing environment, validates the consistency of our innovation and execution, as well as our 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 the 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 attributes to its native integrations across every major cloud, combined with its unified control plane. NetApp believes these findings reinforce the value of the 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.
