Archive for November, 2011
In order to assess the market trends involving the current usage and potential adoption of solid-state storage, ESG recently surveyed 223 IT decision-makers responsible for data storage at enterprise-class (i.e., 1,000 or more employees) organizations that either currently use solid-state storage or are considering using the technology. Respondents were familiar ...
ESG Lab recently completed testing of Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.4.
Storage Center from Dell Compellent was designed to provide efficient, agile, and resilient networked storage with a goal of reducing storage cost and complexity while meeting the growing needs of the business.
This report documents hands-on testing of Storage Center version ...
“This is a bunch of enhancements just to make Atmos easier to use,” said Terri McClure, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “You have to evolve the platform to make it easier to install and get reports out, and it has to be flexible for deployment. That's what they're ...
Storage Center from Dell Compellent was designed to provide efficient, agile, and resilient networked storage with a goal of reducing storage cost and complexity while meeting the growing needs of the business. This report documents hands-on testing of Storage Center version 5.4 with a focus on the capacity, recoverability, and ...
The trend to leverage mobile computing devices for business purposes is rapidly increasing. I can remember joining ESG five years ago and I was the only person in the company with a Blackberry. Now just about everyone in the company has at least one mobile computing device, if not several. ...
As part of our recent APT research, ESG asked security professionals working at U.S.-based enterprise organizations (i.e., more than 1,000 employees) if APTs had caused their organizations to purchase and deploy new information security technologies. About 40% are doing so.
What’s interesting is the types of investments they are making in ...
Recoverability of data, validating backup success and response time for troubleshooting backup failures were named by at least one-third of respondents in a recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey as the top challenges for protecting an organization’s virtual server environment.
via Survey looks into backup and recovery challenges of virtual servers.
The best part of BC/DR planning is not being prepared for your eventual disaster--it's what you get beforehand.
In my earlier post, I talked about the 10 professional practices of Business Continuity Planning.
Practices 2 and 3 include "Risk Evaluation and Control" and "Business Impact Analysis." They are essentially about gathering an ...
Executive management prompted action on APTs and interaction with their security teams on the threat in 47 percent of cases, though an equal amount from the business-side have taken no action in response to APTs, the report indicated. Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst with ESG and report lead author, says ...
While I was at the Hadoop World conference last week, I heard Doug Cutting of Cloudera, one of the original designers of Hadoop, say something that really caught my attention. He said, in kind of an offhand way, that Hadoop was really the kernel of a distributed operating system, just ...
