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Diligent Acquisition Gives IBM Enterprise De-Dupe for More Efficient Data Protection

5/8/2008

In acquiring Diligent, IBM adds game-changing de-duplication technology to its data protection arsenal. De-duplication makes backup and recovery faster, more efficient, and, yes, more green. This has significant value for organizations in their pursuit to protect and make readily available massively growing volumes of data.

Pillar Data’s Application Aware Storage
2/5/2008

Pillar Data Systems has spent a great deal of time and money designing a storage architecture that can mesh with the specific needs of varying applications—and is now set to unveil the first proof points.

ESG Lab Validation Report: IBRIX Fusion - Simple Scalable File System
4/22/2008

This ESG Lab report examines the ease of installation and deployment of direct and SAN attached systems running IBRIX Fusion scalable network-attached file system software. Scalable capacity, performance for a wide variety of workloads and high availability are also explored.


		"Tracking Storage Usage in Virtual Environments Still a Challenge" Byte and Switch 5/8/2008 "Make sure you know what your virtualization supplier has first, before buying any third-party products," says Mark Bowker of the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more.

		"The State of Continuous Data Protection" SearchStorage.com Australia 5/6/2008 "CDP is effective as a function, but it is not likely to replace other backup tools. It is really best as a feature in other backup products," says Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more.

		"HP Brings Storage, Servers Into One Rack" CIO 5/6/2008 Managing many terabytes of storage is far different from taking care of a few hundred gigabytes on a PC, said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters. Click the link to read more.

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these times avail new opportunities for all of us. We are using these times as a reason to add even more value than ever—not as a reason to circle the wagons.

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4/1/2008 - Now Available: ESG Research Explores Use of IT Service Management Automation Technologies and Best Practices

ESG conducted a comprehensive survey of 602 global IT decision makers regarding their organization’s current and planned use of IT service management automation technologies and best practices. According to this research report, "IT Service & Infrastructure Management Survey," the operational complexity created by full-scale deployment of emerging infrastructure technologies is quickly and fundamentally changing the status quo among IT management organizations.

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Briefs:

	5/8/2008: Diligent Acquisition Gives IBM Enterprise De-Dupe for More Efficient Data Protection: In acquiring Diligent, IBM adds game-changing de-duplication technology to its data protection arsenal. De-duplication makes backup and recovery faster, more efficient, and, yes, more green. This has significant value for organizations in their pursuit to protect and make readily available massively growing volumes of data.

	5/7/2008: ExDS9100 – HP’s ‘Extreme’ Storage Play : HP’s StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System is HP’s entrée into the market for high capacity/bandwidth file services. It is primarily targeted at Web 2.0 and rich media opportunities where scale out is as, if not more, important than scale up. HP’s intent here is to simplify the management of massive scale out storage environments—and with the ExDS9100, HP seems to be doing just that.

Research Reports:

	3/19/2008: 2008 IT Service & Infrastructure Management Survey: ESG recently surveyed 602 enterprise and medium size business IT decision makers in North America, Western Europe and China regarding their organizations’ current and planned use of IT management automation technologies and service management best practices (e.g., ITIL, Six Sigma, ISO 20000, etc.) The goal of the study was to assess the types of business and IT operational impacts that occur when IT organizations deploy these tools and best practices in production environments. + Executive Summary

	2/11/2008: Data Protection Market Trends: ESG recently surveyed 398 North American IT decision makers regarding their organizations’ current and planned uses of data protection processes and technology. Examples of data protection processes and technologies include backup and recovery, data replication, snapshots and continuous data protection (CDP). + Executive Summary

Lab Reports:

	4/22/2008: ESG Lab Validation Report: IBRIX Fusion - Simple Scalable File System: This ESG Lab report examines the ease of installation and deployment of direct and SAN attached systems running IBRIX Fusion scalable network-attached file system software. Scalable capacity, performance for a wide variety of workloads and high availability are also explored.

	4/7/2008: ESG Lab Validation Report: Xiotech Intelligent Storage Element - Managed Reliability: ESG Lab evaluated the Intelligent Storage Element (ISE), an integral component of Xiotech’s new Emprise 5000 and Emprise 7000 storage systems, and its ability to enhance the availability, reliability and performance of storage systems. This report presents the results of an ESG Lab validation of the architecture, reliability and performance of Xiotech’s ISE.

Free Reports & Publications:

	5/8/2008: Diligent Acquisition Gives IBM Enterprise De-Dupe for More Efficient Data Protection: In acquiring Diligent, IBM adds game-changing de-duplication technology to its data protection arsenal. De-duplication makes backup and recovery faster, more efficient, and, yes, more green. This has significant value for organizations in their pursuit to protect and make readily available massively growing volumes of data.

	4/28/2008: SEPATON Addresses Backup of Virtualized Servers: SEPATON is among the growing list of vendors to join the VMware Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. SEPATON has its sights set on solving the backup challenges of virtual server implementations—in particular, VMware environments—with VTL.