CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has selected Infinidat, a Lenovo company, as a 2026 CRN Tech Innovator Awards Finalist in the “Storage Enterprise” category for the InfiniBox® G4 platform in North America and as a Finalist for the 2026 CRN Channel Awards Germany Shortlist for “Infrastructure and Storage Manufacturer of the Year” in Germany, while GigaOm, a leading IT analyst firm, has named Infinidat a “Leader” and a “Fast Mover” in GigaOm’s 2026 Radar for Object Storage.
“The continued recognition of Infinidat as a leader and innovator in enterprise storage is a testament to the power of the next-generation InfiniBox G4 family of all-flash and hybrid storage solutions,” said Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat. “Supercharged by innovation that has raised the bar, our InfiniBox G4 is the right platform, the right tool, and the right enterprise storage solution for object, block, and file storage deployments.”
In related news, Mitch Diodato, the Senior Director, Global Channel Sales at Infinidat, has been named a CRN Inclusive Channel Leader for 2026. This recognition reflects Diodato’s dedication to making a positive impact across the IT channel through inclusive leadership, developing diverse team coalitions, including a wider variety of voices from different backgrounds, and strengthening partnerships to boost the channel. This is the third time that Infinidat has won the CRN Inclusive Channel Leader Award, with Infinidat CMO Eric Herzog winning it in 2024 and 2025.
INNOVATION: Infinidat Named a Finalist for a 2026 CRN Tech Innovator Award in Enterprise Storage and a Finalist for the 2026 CRN Channel Awards Germany Shortlist as Storage Manufacturer of the Year
CRN’s editors selected the InfiniBox G4 as a Finalist based on multiple criteria, including key capabilities, uniqueness, technological ingenuity, and ability to address customer and partner technology needs. This recognition is the 8th time Infinidat has been named a “Finalist” by CRN in the Tech Innovator Awards competition since 2018. Infinidat has won a CRN Tech Innovator Award three times since 2022.
A new model of the award-winning InfiniBox G4 was launched in September 2025, making high-end enterprise storage more compact, more energy-efficient, more cyber resilient, and more cost-effective. In addition, providing S3 Object protocol support natively in Infinidat’s InfuzeOS™ operating system over the last year has set the InfiniBox G4 apart from the majority of the competition, which largely continues to treat the S3 protocol as either a bolt-on feature or requiring customers to purchase a separate array for object environments. Delivering 100% availability, massive workload consolidation, cyber storage resilience, lower CAPEX and OPEX, and industry-leading performance, the Infinidat G4 is the most exciting high-end enterprise storage offering on the market today.
“The 2026 CRN Tech Innovator Awards finalists represent the most forward-thinking offerings shaping the future of the IT channel,” said Jennifer Follett, Vice President, U.S. Content, Executive Editor, CRN, The Channel Company. “Each finalist brings a clear vision to market, addressing real-world challenges while delivering measurable value to partners and customers alike. We congratulate this year’s finalists on their commitment to innovation, partner success and meaningful impact across the technology ecosystem.”
Additionally, CRN Germany has announced Infinidat as a 2026 Finalist as one of the leading enterprise storage solution providers for “Infrastructure and Storage Manufacturer of the Year.”
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To learn more about Infinidat’s recognition as a Finalist for a 2026 Tech Innovator Award, click here. Winners will be announced online on Aug. 5.
To view Infinidat’s recognition as a 2026 Infrastructure and Storage Manufacturer of the Year Finalist in Germany, click here.
To read about Mitch Diodato’s recognition as a 2026 CRN Inclusive Channel Leader, click here.
LEADERSHIP: Infinidat Named a Leader and A Fast Mover in GigaOm’s Radar for Object Storage
Infinidat is positioned as a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Object Storage. GigaOm analysts cited the InfiniBox as “a consolidated platform designed to eliminate storage silos. By integrating native S3 object storage alongside Fibre Channel and NFS protocols, Infinidat targets large enterprises and service providers seeking to centralize diverse workloads on a unified infrastructure.”
“Object storage has become foundational to modern data infrastructure,” said Whit Walters, Analyst at GigaOm. “Infinidat has made significant advancements in object storage to round out its broad portfolio. Infinidat’s enterprise storage solutions are ideal for data-intensive verticals such as finance, telecommunications, and healthcare, for which reliability cannot be compromised. InfiniBox excels in consolidation use cases, such as allowing a bank to host high-performance databases, general-purpose file shares, and S3-based backup repositories on a single array. Infinidat is a company to watch in object storage.”
GigaOm’s 2026 Radar Object Storage Report identifies the following as Infinidat’s greatest strengths:
- Auditing: InfuzeOS provides granular visibility into system access and data operations, a critical requirement for multi-tenant service provider environments
- Versioning: The platform supports a robust S3-compatible object versioning implementation that goes beyond simple recovery
- Storage optimization: Efficiency is a core architectural tenet, achieved through a combination of high-capacity hard disk drives and the patented Neural Cache
GigaOm’s analysts wrote in the report: “The entire portfolio, including InfiniBox and the all-flash InfiniBox SSA, runs on the unified InfuzeOS. This architecture delivers native, concurrent block, file, and S3-compatible object storage services from a single platform without the use of external gateways. By avoiding translation layers, Infinidat provides a consistent management experience and optimizes performance across all supported protocols.”
To download the full analyst report, click the link below:
Infinidat, a Lenovo company, is a global leader in high-end enterprise storage solutions. Infinidat offers a broad portfolio of cyber resilient enterprise storage solutions and next generation data protection capabilities for AI-ready data infrastructures. Infinidat has redefined high-end enterprise storage, delivering exceptional performance, 100% availability, cyber storage resilience, automation, efficiency, and white glove service. For more information, explore www.infinidat.com.