Archive for January, 2011
Whenever IT professionals are asked about cloud computing, they say that their organization is interested but cautious. Yes, they are doing a lot of research and planning and some are using public cloud services for software development and test or publicly-facing web applications. What about mission-critical ...
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analyst Lauren Whitehouse advises users to closely factor in cost, capacity and performance when comparing single-, dual- and multi-node deduplication systems.
via Sepaton Doubles Deduplication Performance — EnterpriseStorageForum.com.
If you read the latest news and blogs about identity and access management, it would seem that everyone is talking about identity in the cloud. Makes sense since security and managing identity are top concerns as businesses consider moving services to the cloud. However, when I talk to both customers ...
Recommind held its Regulator Roundtable Panel on Data Privacy yesterday, featuring Patrick Oot, Special Counsel of Electronic Discovery at the SEC, WilmerHale partner J. Beckwith “Becky” Burr of the Regulatory and Government Affairs Department, and Pillsbury partner Wayne Matus of its Information Law practice.
The panel touched on some of the ...
Deep in the halls of many IT organizations lives a worrier: a professional paid to assume the worst, plan for disasters, and contemplate the unthinkable. They are the Disaster Recovery Planner. They may prefer “contingency” or “business continuity” as part of their identity, but their role is clear: document what ...
The storage industry is filled with so much energy these days. Steve Duplessie nailed it in his blog post “Hey baby, wanna see my LUN?” It is an exciting time, and very much so for a guy like me who has spent his life in Backup and Recovery–or spent ...
Mark Peters, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, said data placement is the key to optimized SSD performance.
"The main thing is moving data around efficiently and putting it in the right place at the right time," Peters said.
via Xiotech launches Hybrid ISE solid-state drives system.
I recently published a research brief looking at IT hiring plans and expected labor shortages in 2011. No big surprise, virtualization and security topped the list of core data center infrastructure skills, bested only by application development and database talent.
It was not surprising that the data for labor shortages ...
According to ESG’s 2011 IT Spending Intentions Survey, 85% of midmarket and enterprise organizations will increase or maintain their spending on storage infrastructure in 2011. Spending will vary by company size, vertical industry, and organizational profile. This brief analyzes storage spending at both a general and a solution/product level and ...
We predicted that 2010 would be a big year for scale-out storage, and I think we were pretty right on that one. But there were clear market indicators as well as vendor momentum, and that prediction was pretty safe. Momentum should continue throughout 2011, and based on some ...
