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ESG Research Brief: Successful Data Center Transformation Depends on IT Management Process Automation
5/12/2008

ESG research finds that IT management process automation is strongly associated with high levels of IT operational effectiveness. Organizations committed to widespread SOA (service-oriented architecture), Web 2.0 and server virtualization deployments are often the most aggressive IT management process automation adopters. As IT environments become more complex, ESG expects more and more IT organizations will require robust IT management process automation tools in order to consistently meet promised service level objectives.

Pillar Data’s Application Aware Storage
2/5/2008

Pillar Data Systems has spent a great deal of time and money designing a storage architecture that can mesh with the specific needs of varying applications—and is now set to unveil the first proof points.

ESG Lab Validation Report: IBRIX Fusion - Simple Scalable File System
4/22/2008

This ESG Lab report examines the ease of installation and deployment of direct and SAN attached systems running IBRIX Fusion scalable network-attached file system software. Scalable capacity, performance for a wide variety of workloads and high availability are also explored.


		"Tracking Storage Usage in Virtual Environments Still a Challenge" Byte and Switch 5/8/2008 "Make sure you know what your virtualization supplier has first, before buying any third-party products," says Mark Bowker of the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more.

		"The State of Continuous Data Protection" SearchStorage.com Australia 5/6/2008 "CDP is effective as a function, but it is not likely to replace other backup tools. It is really best as a feature in other backup products," says Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more.

		"HP Brings Storage, Servers Into One Rack" CIO 5/6/2008 Managing many terabytes of storage is far different from taking care of a few hundred gigabytes on a PC, said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters. Click the link to read more.