Archive for November, 2011
In a recent ESG Brief: QLogic iSR Accelerates Data Migrations, ESG Analyst Bob Laliberte nails the data migration challenges virtualization brings to the data center, and the value QLogic offers with their solution…
ESG Lab tested the iSR 6200 series and documents the results in a just-published Lab Validation report that ...
ESG Lab recently completed testing of the QLogic Intelligent Storage Router.
The report explores hands-on testing and validation of the QLogic 6200 series of Intelligent Storage Router (iSR), focusing on multi-protocol data migration and the simplicity, availability, performance, and cost-efficiency the QLogic iSR series brings to a heterogeneous storage environment.
The QLogic ...
Simple, Robust, Multi-protocol Data Migration and Storage Routing
This ESG Lab Validation report explores hands-on testing and validation of the QLogic 6200 series of Intelligent Storage Router (iSR), focusing on multi-protocol data migration and the simplicity, availability, performance, and cost-efficiency the QLogic iSR series brings to a heterogeneous storage environment.
Background
Recently, ESG ...
"As consumer-like technology makes its way into IT, generational change means users will be gravitating toward increasingly familiar types of interfaces," said Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "The E-5000's intuitive management is both functional and easy to navigate and will do especially well with IT 'generalists' who don't ...
"Hybrid Columnar Compression support means these NAS solutions can significantly reduce the storage footprint, CAPEX and OPEX," said Mark Peters, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.
As another aspect of the Oracle "engineered systems" mantra, this NAS product is fully integrated with the various Oracle applications, middleware and database products. ...
The biggest announcement from Symantec’s Storage Availability & Management Group in five years, this release touches all of the major storage and availability products in Symantec’s portfolio. This is less about products and more about customers and how they think about core competencies: running the business at hand. As IT ...
As promised in my last blog entry, I want to record a few of the notable things that hit me as interesting or different on my recent visit to Australia. If you’re looking for more insights into SANs, solid state or scale-out architectures, I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed; even clouds were ...
Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Lauren Whitehouse agrees that having a common dedupe algorithm is an advantage for HP.
She said Symantec has the same dedupe algorithm with its NetBackup and Backup Exec software and appliances running those apps, “but HP is gunning for EMC because Data Domain is so strong. ...
Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), likes the HP approach. “First, they have a modular approach to deduplication … one algorithm applied in backup hardware and software (and, in the future, it can be applied to primary storage systems). This is not unlike Symantec’s current strategy. The beauty ...
Enterprises today are continuously searching for ways to increase the competitive advantages offered by their information assets. However, as data sets grow in size, vary in format, and require increasingly complex data transformations, business tolerance for lengthy application development and data analytics lifecycles is diminishing. However, the increasing proliferation of ...
