As we embark on an exciting 2026 with new opportunities for growth and impact, it’s beneficial to take a moment to reflect on the powerful momentum that Infinidat possesses starting off 2026. Built on hard work, dedication, and collaboration over the past year, not only within Infinidat, but also along with our partners and customers, our momentum continues to grow year after year after year. Everyone within the Infinidat ecosystem should be proud of our mutual 2025 accomplishments, and these key achievements will serve as a launching pad for even greater successes in 2026.

One of the most notable of these accomplishments was Infinidat being named a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice in the Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer”: Primary Storage Platforms. This was the seventh time that Infinidat has been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice award winner, either as a regional segment or overall for enterprise storage. What is important about this award is that it is from customers!!!!!!!

On Gartner’s Peer Insights site, you can read all about the excellent experiences and benefits – both technical and business – that existing Infinidat customers have achieved using our enterprise storage solutions. Our customers don’t just like our solutions. They LOVE our solutions.

Infinidat continually evolves and expands our solutions aligned with changing customer requirements, and we are proving to be more flexible, more energy-efficient, more high performance, more cyber resilient, and more cost-effective than other storage vendors. We are laser-focused on customer satisfaction, and we work harder than the competition to earn our customers’ trust – and trust is everything in the high-end enterprise market.

Our innovation underscores trust. TechTarget named Infinidat’s InfiniBox™ SSA G4 all-flash system one of the “Best Enterprise Storage Arrays of the Year” in 2025. It was the third year in a row that the InfiniBox SSA has been recognized by TechTarget. The G4 version, which was launched in 2024, represents a breakthrough in enterprise storage performance, combined with built-in cyber storage resilience capabilities, increased power efficiency, and 100% availability.

We also won the 2025 CRN Tech Innovation Award for the InfiniBox SSA G4 as well as the 2025 FMS Award for Most Innovative AI Application with RAG Reference Architecture on the InfiniBox® G4. These are just a few of the dozens of awards and recognitions, both in the media and the analyst community, that the G4 garnered over the past year.

The InfiniBox G4 platform emerged in 2025 as a leading solution as a cyber secure backup target for enterprises. It has revolutionized how fast an enterprise can recover from a cyberattack or other disaster. To provide an example of independent validation of this claim, the storage analyst firm DCIG did an analysis and named the G4 family as one of the TOP 5 Cybersecure Sub-10PB NAS Solutions in the world for enterprises.

From a new solutions perspective, innovation was extended in multiple ways in 2025. On September 30th, we expanded the InfiniBox G4 family with a series of extensive and powerful enhancements and a new smaller form-factor model: the InfiniBox SSA G4 F24 all-flash family, which delivers high-end storage in a reduced footprint with superior power-efficiency and a greener IT solution − at an unprecedented lower entry price point for a high-end enterprise storage solution.

The evolution of the InfiniBox G4 family is making high-end enterprise storage more accessible to a broader range of enterprises, extending the powerful capabilities of the award-winning InfiniBox G4 to upgrade data infrastructures without any disruption.

Our customer success inspires trust. We celebrated the immense success that US Signal is having with the InfiniBox platform. US Signal is a leading digital infrastructure provider that deployed the InfiniBox SSA G4 all-flash solution as the storage backbone of its groundbreaking Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution – OpenCloud − one of the only open-source cloud services solutions available in the United States today. Click here to read an interview with John White, the COO of US Signal.

We also showcased the success of Enecom, Inc., an information and communication technology (ICT) services provider in Japan. This customer upgraded their storage infrastructure with Infinidat’s InfiniBoxes for 100% availability, scalability, lower cost, and cyber resilience.

Our collaborations reinforce trust. Infinidat has a robust ecosystem of technology partners with whom we collaborate. We collaborate closely with companies that also deliver extensive enterprise solutions, such as Red Hat, Veeam, SAP, and Commvault, to name just a few. (A complete list of technology partners is available here.) In 2025, we announced a collaboration with Veeam on next-generation data protection for Kubernetes-based workloads. We support the shift to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as an alternative to traditional virtualization platforms.

Channel partners also trust Infinidat in highly effective collaborations to grow their businesses. Infinidat has committed significant resources to support channel partners. Over the past 12 months, Infinidat earned a 5-star Rating in the CRN Partner Program Guide for the fourth year in a row, was named to the CRN Storage 100 and CRN Cloud 100, and was recognized as one of the “Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors” for channel partners with which to work.

A strong dedication to open communication and productivity with channel partners is also a hallmark of Infinidat’s commitment to the channel. My Infinidat colleagues and I strive to go above and beyond. I was honored to be named a CRN Channel Chief for the third time, and my colleague JT Lewis was recognized as a 2025 CRN Channel Leader for EMEA and APAC.

Our cyber focus catapults trust forward. Infinidat’s advancement with cyber storage resilience has been nothing short of stellar, and the recognition of it surged in 2025. We won multiple Global InfoSec Awards and Top InfoSec Innovator Awards from Cyber Security Magazine. They included “Hot Company – Cyber Resilience,” Hot Company – Cyberstorage” and “Editor’s Choice – Ransomware Recovery.” We were also a Finalist in the 2025 Tech Innovator CUBEDd Awards for data protection.

There’s not enough space in this blog to cover every award and recognition of the last year, but you can scan the headlines of 2025 by clicking here.

I want to end by summarizing the results of an important survey from last summer. Infinidat sponsored a survey conducted by The Register / Blocks & Files, revealing the critical role of cyber storage resilience and rapid recovery as the “last line of defense” in enterprise cybersecurity. The results underscore the importance of a “recovery-first cyber strategy” and next-generation data protection, integrating automated cyber protection, accelerating cyber detection, and incorporating cyber storage resilience and rapid recovery into an enterprise’s overall cybersecurity strategy.

If you have not taken a close look at the full report with the survey results, I strongly recommend that you do it this month as you gear up to have a great new year. It will potentially give you validation points to use to justify more budget in 2026 and identify new opportunities for expansion and impact. Click here for access to the The Register / Blocks & Files report.

Eric Herzog is the Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, a Lenovo company. Prior to joining Infinidat, Herzog was CMO and VP of Global Storage Channels at IBM Storage Solutions. His executive leadership experience also includes: Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for EMC’s Enterprise & Mid-range Systems Division, and CMO and Senior VP of Alliances for all-flash storage provider Violin Memory.