GigaOm Names Wasabi as a Leader and Outperformer

The 2026 GigaOm Radar for Object Storage as a Service once again positioned Wasabi as a Leader and Outperformer in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant. This recognition reflects both the strength of Wasabi’s cloud storage ecosystem today and the direction of innovative features and services like Wasabi Fire. Wasabi’s classification as an Outperformer puts us among a select group of providers expected to gain momentum through continued execution and product advancement.

GigaOm is an independent analyst firm, their Radar reports assess vendors competitively based on technical capabilities, maturity, innovation, and business value. The firm’s Radar reports are designed to help enterprise IT leaders, cloud architects, and partners make informed decisions in a crowded and rapidly evolving market.

How GigaOm evaluates object storage providers

Now in its sixth year, the GigaOm Radar for Object Storage as a Service evaluated 13 leading vendors and compared them across a range of capabilities, from core functionality to emerging innovation. The analysis considers key features such as data integrity, security, scalability, and migration capabilities, along with business factors like cost transparency and flexibility.

The Radar visualization maps vendors based on two dimensions. One axis reflects maturity versus innovation, while the other distinguishes between point solutions and full platforms. Vendors positioned closer to the center of the Radar are considered more complete solutions, while those further along the innovation axis are recognized for forward-looking capabilities and roadmap strength.

This framework matters because it goes beyond a simple feature checklist which reflects a single point in time. The Radar highlights which providers are delivering value today, while also investing in the capabilities customers will need in the near future based on market trends and expectations.

Why Wasabi stands out in a competitive market

Within this framework, Wasabi’s placement as both a Leader and an Outperformer speaks to a rare combination of maturity and innovation. In fact, Wasabi is one of only two providers with these distinctions, placing us in direct company with the largest hyperscale provider in the market.

Wasabi scored highly on a number of decision criteria, including:

Strong data integrity: Data integrity is foundational in object storage, particularly as organizations face increasing threats from ransomware and data corruption. GigaOm highlights data integrity as a critical requirement for protecting against data loss and unauthorized changes, reinforcing the importance of built-in safeguards across the storage stack. The report stated that Wasabi’s “integration with many data protection and management solutions is unique in the market, making it easy to consume Wasabi’s service directly from those vendors’ management interfaces.”

Robust operational security: Beyond protecting the data itself, organizations need confidence that access to that data is tightly controlled and continuously monitored. GigaOm called our operational security posture “excellent” and cited features such as multi-user authorization, encryption, access controls, and auditing that help reduce risk, especially important as environments grow more distributed and complex.

Mature migration capabilities: Moving data into object storage at scale can be complex, and organizations need solutions that simplify this process without introducing risk or disruption. Wasabi’s approach, particularly through Cloud Sync Manager, helps reduce friction and accelerate time to value.

Overall, Wasabi delivers a unique balance of cost, performance, and capability. Cost transparency remains a major consideration for organizations evaluating alternatives to traditional hyperscale cloud infrastructure pricing models. As the report notes, pricing complexity and data transfer costs can significantly impact long-term economics, making predictability and simplicity key differentiators.

Continuing innovation a critical “must have” as a market leader

In addition to the strengths listed above, GigaOm specifically called out two key innovations that distinguish Wasabi:

Wasabi Fire storage class: Our all-NVMe flash storage is designed to deliver the high performance and low latency required by modern workloads such as AI/machine learning, data processing, real-time analytics, high-performance web applications, and more.

Covert Copy: This industry-first capability allows organizations to create a hidden, immutable copy of data. This “invisible” copy of your data provides an added layer of protection and enhances ransomware resilience in today’s ever-evolving threat landscape.

What this means for your storage strategy

Recognition from GigaOm provides independent validation of Wasabi’s approach, and our position as a market disruptor and innovator. And the real-world impact of Wasabi is realized by our 100K+ users and IT professionals who rely on the service’s cost effectiveness, predictability, and performance each day. .

If you’re evaluating object storage platforms or services, this report offers an independent analysis of how vendors compare across key criteria. It also reinforces the importance of choosing a provider that delivers immediate value, and is also positioned to maintain that value through consistent innovation that aligns with future market and user demands.

For existing customers, Wasabi’s market leadership can help you maintain confidence that your storage platform will scale with your data, support evolving workloads, and protect against emerging threats. For partners, it creates new opportunities to build solutions that combine strong economics with enterprise-grade performance and security.

As data continues to grow and workloads become more complex, the need for reliable, cost-effective, and secure object storage will only increase. This independent analyst recognition highlights our commitment to meeting that need today, while continuing to push the market forward.