Archive for October, 2009
Citrix is helping customers ready themselves to deliver IT as an on-demand service that is simple, cost effective to deploy, and easy to maintain. XenDesktop 4 is a desktop virtualization solution targeted to meet the requirements of a broad set of users requiring the delivery of Windows-based desktops regardless of ...
"We all know, and it's been well publicized, that BakBone doesn't have the broad market presence or customer footprint some of the market leaders do," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Lauren Whitehouse said.
via BakBone phasing out virtual tape library, adds data deduplication with NetVault Backup 8.5.
Brian Babineau, a senior consulting analyst with Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group Inc., said the biggest beneficiary of the agreement will be SAP customers that want to automate their SAP business process workflow outside of their SAP environment
via SAP to resell Open Text’s ECM suite - Page 1 - Business ...
Server virtualization remains a high priority for IT organizations of all sizes as businesses look to improve IT asset utilization, streamline operational efficiency, and enhance service level agreements with application owners. This report documents hands-on testing of Microsoft Hyper-V—paying special attention to ease of deployment, management simplicity, scalability, and performance.
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"You [need to] understand what the size of the backup set is that people are working with and how often they're doing their backups, whether [it's] full/incremental," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Lauren Whitehouse said.
via Online data deduplication calculators don't always add up to accurate dedupe ratios.
Last century, physical servers and physical storage were physically connected over the SAN; the resulting traffic patterns, while largely unmeasured, were relatively static and somewhat predictable. A conservative (albeit expensive) design approach to accommodating those patterns—throw hardware at the problem—was normally taken, resulting in a SAN that usually worked well; ...
In this report, ESG Lab examines DXi-Series appliances working in concert with the Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage interface to provide consolidated management and automated data protection services across multiple sites and multiple storage technologies. Areas of focus include Quantum’s new remote-office focused DXi2500-D appliances; the DXi7500 Enterprise disk backup platform; Quantum ...
"NetApp does still have to diversify long term – one area I'm watching for is innovation," said Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group.
via NetApp sees more stable IT spending around server virtualization, storage cloud.
“If you have 200 devices, that’s a couple of thousand log events per second,” says Jon Oltsik, principal information security analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Processor Editorial Article - Monitoring IT Logs.
I visited IP Expo at Earls Court today and had a look around and concluded that everyone is on message about the cloud. If vendor push gets a technology going then cloud is moving at the speed of light.
I mostly went to interview VirtualGeek, Chad Sakac VP, VMware Technology Alliance ...
