Archive for June, 2010
In order to assess the current state of the data protection market, ESG recently surveyed 510 North America-based senior IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations. All respondents were personally responsible for evaluating, purchasing, or managing data protection technologies—such as backup and ...
ESG Research indicates widespread IT spending on data center transformation, IT consolidation, and server virtualization. This will help reduce costs and streamline operations, right? Yes, in theory, but many IT consolidation projects suffer through planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity—especially for remote ...
Log management technologies have become a staple for regulatory compliance and security reporting. That said, most log management systems provide little more than triggers and alerts when something happens. What about security forensics? Yes, all the information is there but getting to it is a lot like ...
Enterprise Strategy Group's Stephen Duplessie postulates that the business model behind cloud computing is a flawed one, based on constructs rather than products in this blog post: "Why the Cloud Will Vaporize."
via Why cloud computing is here to stay.
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Click here for the full ESG Research Report: Data Center Consolidation and Construction Trends.
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Click here for the ESG Research Report: Data Center Consolidation and Construction Trends.
Research Data Points:
Data Center Construction Plans, by Business Initiatives Impacting IT Spending Decisions 
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Click here for the full ESG Research Report: Data Center Consolidation and Construction Trends.
It is a story often repeated because it is a challenge IT has been living with for a very long time. The amount of data businesses need to store is skyrocketing, which drives corresponding growth in overall data storage costs in the form of storage systems, floor space, power, ...
Research Data Points:
Plans for New Data Center Facility Construction, by Risk Tolerance of Management Team 
