Archive for February, 2010
More than one-half (54%) of midmarket and enterprise organizations surveyed will increase their spending on storage hardware in 2010. Spending will vary by company size, vertical industry, and organizational behavior. Using data from ESG’s 2010 IT Spending Intention Survey, this brief analyzes storage spending at both a general and ...
Cloud storage holds tremendous promise as a way to reduce the cost of doing business by eliminating upfront and ongoing investments in infrastructure, floor space, power, cooling, and management overhead. Despite 2009’s poor economic environment and cloud’s promise of cost reductions, enterprise users have not flocked to public cloud ...
"[HP and Cisco] are both giant companies that play in the same sandbox. While it might have been inevitable that eventually they would need to steal from each others' buckets to keep growing, both have fundamentally sound businesses so neither is in jeopardy from the other – not as they ...
More than one-half (55%) of midmarket and enterprise organizations surveyed will increase their spending on information security products and services in 2010. Spending will vary by company size, vertical industry, and organizational behavior. Using data from ESG’s 2010 IT Spending Intention Survey, this brief analyzes security spending at both ...
Going to push my luck and try skiing again this weekend. Blizzard been happening up north of me for a week, lots of snow. Nice knowing you.
Have you seen what Nasuni has done with its cloudbench utility? Tells users exactly what levels of availability and performance they get ...
It appears the changing vendor landscape may have provided QLogic with an opportunity to increase its market share in the FC switch space and the company is taking advantage of it. Its focus on aligning with OEMs and not competing with them may prove to be beneficial–and ...
According to ESG's 2010 IT Spending Intentions data, 55% of midsized (i.e., less than 1,000 employees) and enterprise (i.e., more than 1,000 employees) organizations will increase spending on information security products and services in 2010.
Great news for the industry, but further analysis provides a more succinct picture: while 61% of ...
Desktop virtualization ROI calculations are becoming a big problem for IT organizations—especially for IT organizations that see its benefits but need to justify the investment to executives.
-- Mark Bowker, Senior ESG Analyst
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It’s always good to know that the world is changing and, hopefully, improving. So it was with interest that I heard that Kathrin Winkler – EMC’s Chief Sustainability Officer – participated earlier today at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. ...
This propensity to scale up and make computers more and more powerful and IO faster and faster has been at the center of the whole industry for decades, an arms race for more clock cycles. In fact, Gordon Moore, a founder at Intel, coined “Moore’s Law” to ...
