Archive for December, 2010
Server virtualization technology is enabling organizations to do more than just consolidate workloads, optimize hardware, and conserve data center floor space. ESG research indicates that many firms are using server virtualization technology as a way to deploy networking and security functions in virtual appliances, a form factor that offers enhanced ...
In order to assess the current state of scale-out storage technology deployments in enterprise IT organizations, ESG recently surveyed 306 North America-based 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, and managing external disk-based storage ...
"The explosion in data center traffic is driving demand for 10GbE server solutions and this market demand is expected to accelerate throughout 2011. 10GbE solutions are now a must have for data centers as data managers struggle to keep up with the massive amount of traffic from a variety of ...
Low entry costs, agility, and elasticity all lead more and more startups to cloud providers.
Today, I met with a successful Brazilian startup and got good feedback about using the cloud. First, the company saved a lot of money by not investing in real estate and data center infrastructure. The average ...
When is tape a direct access storage device? And when is a very active tape archive really just another tier of “regular” storage? At the NERSC Center in California, tape is simply seen as extremely efficient, cost-effective, scalable—and reliable—storage. With over 13 PB of data on tape (growing at around ...
However, Mark Peters, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group, said automated tiering becomes more appealing in combination with the cheaper MLC-based drives.
via Cheaper MLC NAND flash drives poised to drive enterprise SSD adoption.
The solid state storage world is certainly full of vim and vigor these days; hardly a week passes without some new integration news; just a few days ago for example STEC announced that its MLC-based SSDs (the ZeusIOPS) are to be packaged into IBM‘s DS8800 and ...
Support for the Amazon S3 RRS will help save users money because it allows them to reduce the number of copies of data they store in the cloud, rather than be subjected to Amazon's standard multicopy policy, according to Terri McClure, a senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, a Milford, ...
Mark Bowker, an analyst with The Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. in Milford, Mass., recommends tackling the skill sets of your staff by flattening the team that will work on virtualization projects and establishing the different groups that need to be involved: security, server, storage and networking.
via Virtualization without virtualization management ...
"When you're trying to stuff more data, and time is a fixed variable, you've got to figure out ways to get it done faster," said Lauren Whitehouse, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in Milford, Mass.
via Top data backup software trends: Source dedupe and virtual machine backup.
