Archive for October, 2011
In the past, Cisco trickled out new product announcements so as not to water down the impact of each component. Not anymore. This week, Cisco announced a multitude of new products and functionality across the Nexus product line.
From my perspective, Cisco’s announcement should get a lot of attention from competitors ...
ESG Lab recently completed testing of NetApp OnCommand Insight.
The mantra “IT needs to be more tightly aligned to the business” has become more than just a lofty goal and is now a business mandate. Organizations are taking proactive steps to ensure this becomes reality, with more emphasis ...
ESG Lab performed hands-on evaluation and testing of NetApp OnCommand Insight management software. The test environment was built to reflect a heterogeneous server and storage infrastructure to demonstrate the ability to manage across domains and provide end-to-end visibility from the applications down into the storage systems in both physical and ...
Just what is a “network fabric?” Generally, the term is used to describe a low-latency, loss-less, converged, flat network architecture for data centers. That said, the term has been co-opted by marketing types so it’s hard to know what “network fabric” means anymore.
This week, networking veteran Enterasys ...
EMC and Dell are both better off because of the relationship, blogs Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. 'Dell learned the storage business and EMC sold storage to far off foreign lands (the SMB) – neither would have been able to do it themselves–certainly not in any ...
Mark Peters, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group ESG, said the software can enable Coraid to offer a simple storage back end with a sophisticated orchestration and management tool. “The way we currently do storage has to change,” Peters said. “We just have too much complexity.”
via Coraid adds cloud ...
Today, HP Vertica announced its plans to provide a Community Edition of their columnar analytical database by the end of the year. While Vertica is not alone in offering a community edition analytical database, they are unique in providing a version that can run on a cluster--rather than on a ...
October 12-14th saw the inaugural Dell World in sunny Austin. In creating this new event, Dell took another measured step on its march to being a big grown-up soup-to-nuts IT company. After all, that’s what the ‘big boys’ do, eh? And it’s commendable.
Not surprisingly, as a first effort, ...
"From a deal perspective, it lasted longer than most marriages.," said Steve Duplessie, founder and lead analyst at market research firm ESG. "They grew apart, it happens. It was great while it lasted; they both made a lot of money on it. EMC reached accounts they never would have been ...
With more than 25 years of remote data protection experience, Asigra has created a field-proven software platform that provides cloud-based protection of data center, remote office, and mobile endpoint devices from a single platform. This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of Asigra Cloud Backup version ...
