Archive for June, 2011
From ESG Research Report, Cloud Computing Adoption Trends:
There was an interesting blog today from Steve Duplessie, on the potential end of the disk era. Of course it’s incendiary stuff…and of course the timescales Steve offers may be off a little (one way or the other….who knows what’s around the corner?)…..but the ultimate logic is surely correct. After ...
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and figured I’d toss out some alarming concepts to stir up a discussion. We’re researching the topic and will publish a more complete paper on it shortly.
The premise: it is only a matter of time before disk (as we know it ...
A few years ago, we analysts warned IT professionals about the mismatch between server virtualization and data center networks. Server virtualization, of course, introduced a new virtual access switch that was invisible to the physical switching infrastructure. Furthermore, server virtualization introduced VM mobility which had the ...
Over the last several years, electronic discovery (e-discovery) in the enterprise has gone from an outsourced function to one steadily moving in-house, especially among serial litigants and highly-regulated companies. Legal and IT departments are often taking the law (or at least legal data) into their own hands as exploding data ...
Last week I was able to visit one of NetApp‘s newest and highly energy-efficient data centers, so energy-efficient that it earned the government’s first energy star ratings for data centers. What makes this even more interesting is that NetApp isn’t in the business of building data centers–they ...
This report presents the results of ESG Lab testing of the performance and scalability of Hyper-V R2 SP1 server virtualization technology. Testing with a tier-1 virtualized Microsoft SharePoint 2010 application workload was used to confirm that Hyper-V R2 SP1 can be used to lower total cost of ownership, increase scalability, ...
I recently got off on the last stop of the spring analyst merry-go-round and attended Dell’s inaugural Storage Forum. It was a combination of the Compellent C-Drive partner and user conference and smaller Dell’s EqualLogic user group meeting. There were probably just under 1,000 attendees–more users than partners, but not ...
“File-level backup and recovery on its own is an incomplete strategy when it comes to meeting today’s stringent recovery time objectives (RTOs) for complete system recovery,” said Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst at IT research firm Enterprise Strategy Group. “Solidifying solutions for bare metal recovery and file-level protection together makes sense ...
In my colleague Jon Oltsik’s blog The Jury is Still Out on the Vivek Kundra Era, Jon critiques the contributions of the US federal government’s first CIO over the last two years. A big theme with Kundra’s initiatives was cloud computing. Coincidentally, I was analyzing data regarding the adoption of ...
