Gartner named six unchanged leaders in its latest Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms.
The research firm advises businesses to budget for a 250% to 300% increase in storage spending for 2027 compared to 2025 levels.
Extreme supply chain volatility and rising costs drive this financial forecast.
Enterprise SSD prices per gigabyte surged more than 15 times higher than nearline HDDs over the past year.
Gartner projects this storage-constrained environment will persist until at least 2028.