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Forrester Research’s new “The Forrester Wave: Object Storage Solutions, Q2 2026” report is drawing sharp criticism for omitting key industry pioneers like Cloudian, IBM, MinIO, and DataCore, raising questions about the report’s inclusion criteria and market accuracy. The analysis highlights that while established object storage vendors such as DDN, Dell, Hitachi Vantara, Huawei, NetApp, Scality, and VAST Data are featured, the absence of foundational players—including IBM’s Cleversafe-based COS, MinIO’s open-source platform, and DataCore’s Swarm (formerly Caringo)—undermines the report’s credibility. Forrester’s inclusion criteria, particularly around object-storage-specific revenue attribution and the "flat namespace" requirement, appear to favor vendors with broader unified or multiprotocol storage platforms, creating an inconsistent competitive landscape. The report also mixes on-premises products with cloud services, such as Oracle, and includes vendors whose object interfaces are merely S3-compatible add-ons rather than true object storage architectures. This approach, the critique argues, fails to reflect the true market dynamics and technical distinctions within the storage industry. The omission of notable open-source distributions like Ceph and Quantum’s ObjectScale further compounds the issue. While acknowledging the difficulty of crafting such reports, the analysis urges Forrester to relax its revenue thresholds and broaden vendor inclusion in future editions to better represent the evolving object storage market, which is critical for enterprise IT buyers evaluating data storage, AI workloads, and hybrid cloud strategies.