# EMC: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/emc

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Enterprise storage systems](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/cloud/enterprise-storage-systems/index.md) | 0% | 162 | 67% | 3 |

## And against it

- "What I'd avoid for your profile - Legacy monolithic arrays (EMC/DELL, HPE primaries)" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, Enterprise storage)
- "both EMC (now Dell) and NetApp have faced criticism regarding support quality" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Enterprise storage)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named EMC, from 2 of the 5 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- core6.com: 2
- dell.com: 2
- enterprisestorageforum.com: 2
- everpuredata.com: 2
- peerspot.com: 2
- reddit.com: 2
- spiceworks.com: 2
- blog.451alliance.com: 1
- community.hpe.com: 1
- community.spiceworks.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://spiceworks.com/it-hardware/voice-of-it-survey-the-state-of-enterprise-data-storage: 2
- http://hp.com/sbso/bus_protect/best_architecture.pdf: 1
- http://virtana.com/wp-content/uploads/Storage-Workload-Analysis-White-paper-Virtana-SLT.pdf: 1
- https://blog.451alliance.com/what-do-it-pros-want-from-their-storage-vendors: 1
- https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-nimble-storage-solution/hpe-nimble-storage-controller-ha-issue/m-p/7273223/highlight/true: 1
- https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-nimble-storage-solution/nimble-in-protective-mode/td-p/7269513: 1
- https://community.spiceworks.com/t/are-storage-vendors-ripping-you-off/263869: 1
- https://core6.com/blog/your-storage-was-hardened-once-it-isnt-anymore: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.