Archive for September, 2011
Cisco and Microsoft made a fairly significant announcement this week around Windows 8, Hyper-V, and Nexus 1000V. Why did I use the word "significant" here?
Nexus 1000V can bridge Microsoft and VMware at the network. Hyper-V is gaining momentum with the Windows-centric mid-market, but ESG research also indicates that 71% of ...
Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst David Chapa reviewed disaster recovery trends, components of DR plans and the benefits of replication technology for DR in his recent report, "Replication Technologies for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery." In this podcast, Chapa discusses some of the results of that study with SearchDisasterRecovery.com Editor ...
“Channel partners and their customers alike are looking for IT providers with end-to-end strength, from the data center to the edge of the network. Our research tells us that SMB resellers in particular are focused on providing value-add services as their primary source of revenue,” said Jeff Hine, a consulting ...
In order to assess the impact of cloud computing services on resellers, ESG recently surveyed 187 senior business and technical managers at value-add channel organizations in North America. For the purposes of this study, ESG sought organizations identifying themselves as resellers, VARs, solution providers, managed services providers, or global and ...
Networking analyst Jon Oltsik of Enterprise Strategy Group told eWEEK that this collaboration between Cisco and Microsoft "gives Cisco the opportunity to do the kind of bundling that it does in the VMware space. It's got vBlocks (pre-configured Cisco-EMC unified data center systems) and the NetApp-VMware packages (both for vSphere), ...
This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of local, remote, and application protection components of the EMC VNX Total Protection Pack, which consists of RecoverPoint/SE, Replication Manager, and Data Protection Advisor for Replication Analysis. ESG Lab evaluated both replication and consolidated management capabilities at an EMC ...
Databases Store a Disproportionate Amount of Private and Sensitive Data
Milford, MA— September 20, 2011 —The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a leading IT industry analyst and consulting firm, today announced the publication of a Market Landscape Report on Database Security solutions. Authored by ESG Senior Principal Analyst Jon Oltsik and Senior ...
"Accenture did not admit guilt in the settlement so we can't assume that they did anything wrong. The lines are pretty grey on the kickbacks though," says Jeff Hine, consulting analyst of channel programs for Enterprise Strategy Group. "Assuming they received the alleged kickback from the hardware (and) ...
Enterprise Strategy Group founder and chief analyst Steve Duplessie summed up what a lot of people in the business think and say about Dell: “Michael is a true one in a billion—one in $25 billion, to be more accurate."
via The World According to Dell: From Hardware to Software and Now ...
"HP has a few product gaps and probably hasn't met its sales objectives with the 3Com products," says Jon Oltsik of Enterprise Strategy Group. "I'm also hearing that success has really been limited in APAC/China."
via 5 priorities for HP in data center switching.
