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Briefs: SunGard Extends Data Availability with Secure2Disk

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 8:07 pm | No Comments »

Most organizations rely on tape-centric backup strategies at their primary site, storing backup copies off premises for disaster recovery purposes. SunGard has introduced a disk-to-disk-to-cloud backup/recovery solution that provides onsite operational recovery and rapid offsite disaster recovery at a cost that approaches tape. Overview ESG polled end-users about their backup processes and ...

Briefs: ESG Research Brief: Enterprise SSD Usage is Not a Flash in the Pan

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 4:32 pm | No Comments »

Despite the fact that flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) offer performance levels more than 30 times greater than traditional hard disk drives (HDDs)-as well as providing other benefits such as higher availability and reduced power and cooling requirements-the cost of flash-enabled storage systems remains a significant roadblock to widespread adoption. In ...

Research Data Points: Current Perception of Flash-Based SSDs in Enterprise Storage Systems

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 12:10 pm | No Comments »

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Research Data Points: Disk Capacity that Requires Flash-Based SSD-Level Performance, by Industry

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 12:07 pm | No Comments »

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Research Data Points: Organizations with More Performance-Sensitive Data Will Pay a Greater Premium for Flash-Based SSDs

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 12:05 pm | No Comments »

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Research Data Points: Price Point Relative to HDDs that Organizations Would Pay for Flash-Based SSDs

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 12:01 pm | No Comments »

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Research Data Points: Plans for Flash-Based SSDs in Enterprise Storage Systems, by Storage Budget

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 11:58 am | No Comments »

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Research Data Points: Benefits of Flash-Based SSDs

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 11:56 am | No Comments »

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Research Data Points: Plans for Flash-Based SSDs in Enterprise Storage Systems

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 11:53 am | No Comments »

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Blogs: Product in No Man’s Land? Build Your Own Customer…

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 11:04 am | No Comments »

I recently sat in a meeting with Tim Lieto, who had a fantastic tale to tell. The customer was talking, as so many do, about the fact that their product was relevant across many IT constituencies, but budgeted by none. They had clear value at many points of IT, but ...