Archive for February, 2011
I was with the Dell EqualLogic team last week and I got to thinking about how far block storage has come. What did it take a mere 5 years ago to upgrade a storage system to the next generation of hardware? You could do some level of ...
Ever since I first heard about Juniper‘s “Project Stratus” about 2 years ago, I’ve been poking around to get more details about this top secret initiative. Despite many glasses of red wine, my Juniper contacts remained silent but I did get a few hints at the project ...
Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, said the problem with remote offices is that companies frequently don't have any local IT capability to manage the kind of remote office backup solution that might be ideal. "Things like tape-based backup can be automated to some extent, but eventually someone ...
What's with all the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) circulating on cloud, fueling unrealistic fears?
The cloud is a deployment choice that deserves the same risk management procedures you put in place for any other platform. Companies are making good use of the cloud by starting small and building on its ...
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of the Emulex OneCommand Vision I/O management software, which enables IT organizations to intelligently and proactively monitor overall I/O health in a heterogeneous data center environment. ESG evaluated OneCommand Vision’s ability to deliver end-to-end I/O management insight in a test ...
TW3? If I told you this was actually short for (wait for it….) TWTWTW you might think it’s some early sort of semantic deduplication….however, the title of this blog refers to a well known (although long since defunct) British show–‘That Was The Week That Was’, a somewhat ...
2011 plans for infrastructure management software spending vary significantly by company size, with larger organizations leading the way. For instance, while 38% of enterprise organizations plan to increase spending on management tools, just 23% of midmarket organizations will do the same.
Likewise, while a mere 16% of organizations with less than ...
Last week, I went over some of the regulatory changes from Dodd Frank discussed at the IQPC E-discovery for Financial Services conference. This week, I’ll cover the user panel on Insourcing vs. Outsourcing e-discovery, moderated by Recommind’s Howard Sklar.
Much has been made of the benefits to bringing e-discovery in-house for ...
This ESG Lab report explores the capabilities of an Engenio 2600 storage system deployed in a consolidated virtual server environment with a focus on the value of predictably balanced mixed application performance and application aware storage management plug-ins.
The Challenges
A worldwide wave of server and storage consolidation is reducing the cost ...
I posted this tweet the other day.
“Backup/Recovery, no, Disaster Recovery or maybe Business Continuity…Can DR become the new Backup? http://bit.ly/h5xS6Y Let’s discuss…”
Many people responded, many discussions took place. Since I hear, and rightfully so, that it’s “all about recovery” and it’s “all about efficiency,” then why not ...
