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  "F5 bolsters Big-IP security features" Network World
11/17/2009
“Enterprises must seek an optimal balance that blends security features with application acceleration capabilities,” said Jon Oltsik, a senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, in a statement.
 
     
  "Server Cool-Bags Could Cut Costs By 93 Percent" eWeek Europe
11/17/2009
Data Centre Power & Cooling specialist Steve O’Donnell, managing director EMEA and senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) - who is due to speak at the eWEEK Europe UK webcast on green data centres - commented on the Iceotope system on his blog.
 
     
  "ParaScale Upgrades Cloud Storage Software for VARs" Channel Insider
11/16/2009
Terri McClure, senior analyst for analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group said cloud storage solutions like ParaScale can help solve IT’s increasing frustration with storage management and free up IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives.
 
QLogic Corrals Key InfiniBand Solution Providers: Wins include Dell, IBM, HP, and SGI

11/16/2009
QLogic announced a slew of InfiniBand design wins at SC09. Building on its success with numerous core Fibre Channel (FC) and Converged Networking design wins this year, QLogic is now wrapping up the year with impressive success in the InfiniBand market. Its philosophy of designing and owning the end-to-end stack (software to ASIC) is paying dividends as major players like Dell, IBM, HP, and SGI line up for QLogic InfiniBand solutions.
Cisco, EMC, and VMware to Accelerate Large-Scale Virtualization Deployments
11/3/2009
Cisco, EMC, and VMware are joining forces and making significant investments aimed at enabling more mature data centers to rapidly achieve the value derived by widespread virtual infrastructure—by delivering products, services, and support as a unified team. A coalition such as this comes along rarely; a perfect storm driven by virtualization now exists and the high-end segment of the market needs such a group to enable rapid deployment of these technologies across their data centers.

ESG Lab Review: 3PAR Autonomic Groups
11/10/2009
This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of 3PAR Autonomic Groups in a clustered VMware environment—paying special attention to ease of provisioning and management.

 
 
 
 
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Intelligent Information Management
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Brian Babineau, Senior Consulting Analyst
brian.babineau@esg-global.com
Direct Phone Number: 508.381.5172

Based in Silicon Valley, Brian serves as a senior analyst covering information management solutions which includes database and database management solutions, performance and optimization software, search, and archiving. In addition, his research activities continue to focus on regulatory compliance, corporate governance, as well as electronic discovery and how these impact IT processes and architectures. With an accounting background, Brian also supports ESG’s financial services offerings to vendors and investors.

Prior to joining ESG in 2002, Brian was with EMC Corporation where he held a variety of positions. Most notably, Brian worked on several software pricing and sales operations initiatives.

Brian received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Marketing from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

 
Briefs
11/10/2009
> Iron Mountain Cloud API Developer Program
8/12/2009
> Nexsan and FalconStor Team for High Performance, Operationally Efficient Disk-based Backup
4/16/2009
> Iron Mountain Expands E-mail Management Offerings with Mimecast Partnership
4/2/2009
> Realizing and Maximizing an E-mail Archive ROI with EMC SourceOne Email Management
3/17/2009
> Mimosa Delivers Much Needed R&R (Retention and Recovery) for SharePoint
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Research Reports
5/4/2009
> ESG Report: Why CIOs Should Look To Data Deduplication
+ Executive Summary
3/23/2009
> Microsoft SharePoint Adoption,Market Drivers, & IT Impact
2/27/2009
> ESG Report: Software-as-a-Service - An Ideal E-mail Archive Solution for Medium-Size Businesses
3/26/2008
> ESG Report: Considerations for Managing and Modeling End-to-End Infrastructure Change in a Virtual Environment
3/25/2008
> ESG Newsletter: Q1 2008
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Lab Reports
5/21/2007
> ESG Lab Review Report: IBM System Storage DR550 and Zantas EAS
 
   
Free Reports & Publications
8/12/2009
Nexsan and FalconStor Team for High Performance, Operationally Efficient Disk-based Backup
5/4/2009
> ESG Report: Why CIOs Should Look To Data Deduplication
2/27/2009
> ESG Report: Software-as-a-Service - An Ideal E-mail Archive Solution for Medium-Size Businesses
11/24/2008
Search in 2009 - A Shift to Information Access
10/7/2008
Data Classification: Making Information Useful
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  News & Events
  "National Kidney Foundation cuts GroupWise storage with cloud storage email archiving" SearchStorage
11/13/2009
Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau said other cloud email archiving services support GroupWise, but usually through a connector that enables journaling, which GroupWise doesn't support natively.
     
  "Microsoft Adds E-mail Archiving to Exchange 2010" Enterprise Storage Forum
11/12/2009
Despite the new storage capabilities, Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau said the new release still leaves plenty of room for storage vendors.
     
  "Microsoft Exchange 2010 adds email archiving and high availability features" SearchStorage
11/10/2009
Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau wonders if performing so many services within a production Exchange application would appeal to most enterprise users.
     
  "Dexrex Gear offers cloud instant messaging and social media data archiving" SearchStorage
11/6/2009
"IM archiving has been around for a while and a good number of archive vendors support Gmail," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau said.
     
  "EMC lays out data archiving and eDiscovery plans" SearchStorage
10/26/2009
Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau said while Autonomy and others have a jump on EMC for supporting more content types, the market is changing.
     
  "EMC introduces product for managing SharePoint repositories" Fierce Content Management
10/21/2009
Brian Babineau, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group says this relationship makes sense for both companies.
     
  "SAP to resell Open Text’s ECM suite" itWorldCanada
10/14/2009
Brian Babineau, a senior consulting analyst with Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group Inc., said the biggest beneficiary of the agreement will be SAP customers that want to automate their SAP business process workflow outside of their SAP environment
     
  "NetApp sees more stable IT spending around server virtualization, storage cloud" SearchStorage
10/9/2009
"NetApp does still have to diversify long term – one area I'm watching for is innovation," said Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group.
     
  "Is NetApp a likely acquisition target?" eChannelLine
10/6/2009
Brian Babineau of Enterprise Strategy Group agreed that NetApp is an ideal takeover candidate. But it isn't the end of the world if it isn't acquired, he said.
     
  "Report: Brocade puts itself up for sale" Computerworld
10/5/2009
"The question is, 'Do the server vendors want to increase the competitive pressure against Cisco, because Cisco is now in the server business?'" said Brian Babineau, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass.
     
  "E-discovery a must-have for SMBs: How to choose an electronic discovery tool" SearchSMBStorage
10/5/2009
When deciding whether or not they should roll out e-discovery tools, SMBs should consider the following: which ones are available in on-premise, and whether to use appliance-based or hosted products, according to Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group
     
  "Email archiving 101 for small business" SearchStorage ANZ
10/2/2009
According to Brian Babineau, a senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, a number of businesses of all sizes will soon consider adopting some type of hosting service and dumping their in-house solutions.
     
  "Databases: The Next Big Virtualization Thing" eWeek
10/1/2009
“The most common virtualization is server virtualization, which allows it to run anywhere—there are no boundaries,” said Brian Babineau, senior consulting analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.
     
  "Who's Hot in the Data Storage Market" Enterprise Storage Forum
9/11/2009
Brian Babineau takes a different view. As a senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, he thinks Compellent (NYSE: CML) has promise.
     
  "Xen Cloud Platform for virtual private datacentres" InfoWorld
9/3/2009
But while open source is really only as good as the sum of its parts, the concept of the Xen Cloud Platform is intriguing, said Mark Bowker, analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.
     
  "EMC Acquires E-Discovery Specialist Kazeon Systems" eWeek
9/1/2009
Clearly, EMC had some choices as to how it wanted to get serious in the e-discovery market, Brian Babineau, senior storage analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, told eWEEK.
     
  "EMC Buys E-Discovery Vendor Kazeon" Enterprise Storage Forum
9/1/2009
Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Brian Babineau called the deal a "good move for both companies. EMC is a logical player in the electronic discovery market, as it stores and manages critical information that could become evidence at any time — they just needed the tools to do so. Kazeon was starting to run into larger competitors that have a more recognizable brand... In this economy, customers tend to spend with brands they know."
     
  "States step up to the electronic challenge" KMWorld
8/28/2009
Previously, IT staff and funding resource restraints put electronic archiving systems on the public sector’s back burner, says Brian Babineau, a senior analyst and practice manager at Enterprise Strategy Group.
     
  "Iron Mountain Digital to add e-discovery features to PC cloud data backup service" SearchDataBackup
8/28/2009
Data collection on corporate PCs is one of the thorniest areas in e-discovery, according to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) senior analyst Brian Babineau.
     
  "Document Management: Figure Out How Much Storage You Need" NetworkWorld
8/27/2009
It's better to figure out what you really need to save (there's software to help) and buy only the storage you need, says Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.
     
  "Attivio Upgrades Its Information Access Platform" Information Today
8/17/2009
Brian Babineau, senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group (www.enterprisestrategygroup.com), says, "The ‘administrative' as opposed to the ‘feature' enhancements are probably the most noteworthy additions to the solution."
     
  "Rackspace launches cloud storage email archiving service" SearchStorage
8/12/2009
"Typically, hosters 'try' an email management service on their existing customers first," said Brian Babineau, an analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
     
  "Email archiving for SMBs: Outsourcing vs. in-house archiving" SearchSMBStorage
8/3/2009
"People initially do email archiving using their Microsoft Exchange or Outlook folders, but they pretty soon need to get beyond that," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Milford, Mass.
     
  "Clearwell in Mountain View helps find legal needles in the data stack" San Jose Business Journal
8/3/2009
Brian Babineau, Palo Alto-based analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group Inc., who follows the storage and info management industry, said the poor economy has helped spur Clearwell’s growth but its products are timely regardless of the recession.
     
  "EMC completes acquisition of Data Domain; fate of data deduplication partner Quantum unknown" SearchStorage
7/23/2009
"The bottom line is that the overall hardware numbers were good," said Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group.
     
  "Data Domain delivers the DD880: A bigger, faster data deduplication device" SearchDataBackup
7/20/2009
"You can fit more data into the Data Domain system now. The knock on them has always been they get great performance, but the boxes weren't that big," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau said.
     
  "Dell looking for acquisitions; data storage experts scope out the candidates" SearchStorage
7/16/2009
"You don't get any higher margins than software," said Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
     
  "NetApp may be target after failed Data Domain bid" Reuters
7/10/2009
Such a purchase would prevent NetApp from partnering with other IBM competitors, said Brian Babineau, an industry analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, a market-research firm.
     
  "EMC wins bidding war with $2.1b offer for Data Domain" The Boston Globe
7/8/2009
"It appears that the bank has won," said Brian Babineau, senior storage industry analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford. "Cash is king, and he who has the most money usually wins at the end of the day."
     
  "EMC Takes Data Domain Prize from NetApp" Enterprise Storage Forum
7/8/2009
Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau said NetApp's next step is "to figure out where to get some growth. They wanted Data Domain because it was a business. My sense is that NetApp doesn't want to buy another startup; rather, they want someone who has a complementary product portfolio."
     
  "Analysis: EMC or NetApp Will Pay Way Too Much for Data Domain" eWeek
7/7/2009
Brian Babineau of Enterprise Strategy Group said he thought the "interesting dynamic is EMC's interest in Data Domain during the transaction. It appears they have gotten more serious about the deal as time progresses, whereas in the beginning it looked like they were simply going to make it more expensive for NetApp."
     
  "Mimosa Systems adds case management tool to NearPoint 4.0 data archiving software" SearchStorage
6/29/2009
Log shipping, according to Brian Babineau, an analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), is seen as more advanced than the more typical journaling approach to ingesting data into an archive.
     
  "Mimosa NearPoint, LiveOffice Mail Archive offer hybrid SaaS email archiving approach" SearchStorage
6/24/2009
"This is the first legitimate hybrid SaaS and on-premise email archive solution," said Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
     
  "US govt could hinder EMC bid for Data Domain" The Guardian
6/18/2009
EMC also stands out as a leader because it offers the broadest line of data reduction technology -- selling three types of products within that category, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.
     
  "EMC-NetApp Takeover Battle a Culture Clash?" Enterprise Storage Forum
6/10/2009
But Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau said Tucci's letter isn't as much about corporate culture as it is about making the case that the company's offer is better than NetApp's.
     
  "Electronic medical records present challenge to healthcare industry" SearchStorage
6/9/2009
Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said hospitals often have end users (doctors) that are used to long-standing legacy systems.
     
  "Electronic Records Management: File This Under ‘More Work Needed'" Workforce Management
6/7/2009
Companies are still struggling with how to deal with records that are “born digital,” says Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Boston-based Enterprise Strategy Group
     
  "NetApp to buy Data Domain" SearchStorage ANZ
5/21/2009
The price of the deal only amplified skepticism that the Data Domain products will remain relegated to one part of NetApp's business. "You have to believe there will be some product rationalization, where they choose the best [product] for primary [storage] and the best for secondary [storage]," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau said.
     
  "Digital Reef integrates FAST ESP and SharePoint Server 2007 support" SearchStorageAsia
5/21/2009
Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group, said ESG's research shows close to half of large organizations use SharePoint, and approximately 35% use it to manage compliance records and evidence.
     
  "EMC Adds Some Thunder to the Cloud" InternetNews.com
5/19/2009
"We don't yet know if Google or Amazon are actually making any money with the cloud, as it's not split off on their balance sheets," said Brian Babineau, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.
     
  "Kazeon bolsters eDiscovery review and analysis software" SearchStorage
5/18/2009
Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group, pointed out that Kazeon's support for collection and culling of SharePoint files will also come in handy.
     
  "HP plans web-based data classification service" SearchStorage ANZ
5/18/2009
Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, said data classification and indexing tools like those offered by Autonomy Corp., FAST and Attivio can generate taxonomies for a user.
     
  "With $20 Billion Up for Grabs, Everyone's an EMR Vendor" Enterprise Storage Forum
5/15/2009
Indeed, talk to any storage or storage virtualization or data management and archiving vendor and they'll probably tell you they have the latest, greatest EMR solution — or are working on it. And maybe they do, said Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. But he also sees a lot of hype.
     
  "Why IT should start throwing data away" InfoWorld
5/6/2009
And more such regulations are in the works, notes Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau. "If you're in business, you're going to be regulated somehow," he says.
     
  "Data classification 101" SearchStorage
4/26/2009
"Data classification was never a product or really a market," said Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
     
  "EMC cuts costs with employee pay cuts" SearchStorageAsia
4/24/2009
Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group, said his firm expects spending to begin picking up around mid-year.
     
  "The downfall of Sun Microsystems" The New York Times
4/24/2009
The biggest reason for Sun's downfall is "the inability to recognize the x86 open architecture, as opposed to what they were selling with the Sparc processors," says Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.
     
  "Data Storage Slideshow:Who Will Ride the IT M and A Wave Following Oracle-Sun?" eWeek
4/23/2009
"We believe there is going to be more M&A activity in technology because valuations are depressed, and it is going to be difficult for many companies to grow in this economy. What will be interesting is how the transactions evolve," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau told eWEEK.
     
  "Key to Oracle-Sun Deal: Storage, DB Hardware" eWeek
4/20/2009
"Oracle is very good at making money in open source," Enterprise Strategy Group storage analyst Brian Babineau told eWEEK.
     
  "Archiving vendors Iron Mountain, Tarmin sharpen e-discovery focus" SearchStorage.co.uk
4/16/2009
Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group, said an uptick in lawsuits usually follows increased regulations, and that will increase the need for e-discovery tools.
     
  "Sun made colossal mistake in turning down IBM offer, analysts say" NetworkWorld
4/7/2009
"Pure insanity" is the phrase used by Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau to describe Sun turning down the premium offered by IBM.

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  "Sun Walks Away From IBM Merger Talks" Internetnews.com
4/6/2009
Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau said the fallout reminded him of the failed merger negotiations between Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) a year ago.

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  "EMC announces content archiving, e-discovery applications" NetworkWorld Middle East
4/2/2009
"They didn't have the burden of legacy products," said Brian Babineau, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "IBM and Sun: Innovation or Consolidation?" InternetNews.com
3/23/2009
"It is extremely likely that we will see more regulation in the financial markets as a result of the current economic crisis," Brian Babineau, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group told InternetNews.com earlier this year.

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  "Analysis: IBM Can Probably Sell Sun Better Than, Well, Sun" eWeek
3/18/2009
For Sun, a potential merger is the best outcome that management and shareholders could ask for, Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau told eWEEK.

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  "Mimosa adds SharePoint archiving" SearchStorage.co.uk
3/17/2009
Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said SharePoint has become a critical application in the enterprise for document management.

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  "Data Domain Boosts Throughput With OS Upgrade" Byte and Switch
3/2/2009
Data Domain is among the few tech companies still growing despite the cutbacks in spending on IT, says Brian Babineau, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Storage budgets shrink as capacity grows" SearchStorage.com
3/2/2009
We're predicting data growth rates at roughly 25% to 30%, and storage budgets up 3% in 2009," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

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  "Iron Mountain Goes Virtual With File Archive" InternetNews.com
2/23/2009
"This kind of hybrid solution is fairly unique as it's the first that connects that on-premise environment to an off-site service and provides on-demand access," Brian Babineau, senior analyst with ESG, told InternetNews.com.

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  "E-Discovery Gets an Upgrade at LegalTech" Byte and Switch
2/2/2009
"There is only a small subset of technology solutions that are purpose built for e-discovery. The majority of these tools have other purposes," says Brian Babineau, a senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "EMC Braces for Tough Storage Market" InternetNews.com
1/27/2009
Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Brian Babineau said that outlook could contain a glimmer of good news. "Companies right now are planning for the absolute worst," he said.

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  "Symantec to integrate Enterprise Vault with the cloud" SearchStorage.co.uk
1/20/2009
Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), says using the cloud will help organizations manage their archives, although it brings e-discovery challenges.

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  "New Enterprise Vault release to support deduplication" SearchStorage.com
1/15/2009
"The decision right now is no longer whether to archive," says Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "After CEO, Staff Cuts, What's Next for Seagate?" InternetNews.com
1/15/2009
That's why Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, expects Seagate to reveal a revamped strategy in the near future.

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  "Seagate to Cut 800 U.S. Jobs, CEO Watkins Resigns" eWeek.com
1/12/2009
"Seagate has exposure to both the consumer and enterprise spending downturn and the board needed to make some difficult decisions to help the company prepare for the future," said storage analyst Brian Babineau of Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Obama, Dems Could Mean New Compliance Regs" InternetNews.com
1/6/2009
"It is extremely likely that we will see more regulation in the financial markets as a result of the current economic crisis," said Brian Babineau, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Five hot storage technologies for 2009 (and five flops)" SearchStorage.com
1/5/2009
"The whole point of these systems is to reduce maintenance windows and to prolong technology investments," says Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Dashboard: Vendors Jump on e-Discovery Bandwagon" Intelligent Enterprise
1/1/2009
"I've received about 4,000 press releases [claiming to fit the bill]," says Brian Babineau, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Mimosa NearPoint module automates email retention, data classification" SearchStorage.com
12/15/2008
The RCO module "allows you to actively manage the archive based on simple query technology," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "EMC Seeks to Make Data More Valuable" Enterprise Storage Forum
12/12/2008
"The need for data analytics doesn't go away in bad economic times," said Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "BridgeHead, IBM launch medical archiving upgrades" SearchStorage.com
12/5/2008
"Having a central archive, separate from the PACS applications, is critical because it allows the data to be managed and accessed in one place," said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "Adaptec unveils new HBA supporting SATA and SAS" eChannelLine.com
12/1/2008
"Adaptec's go to market model [is] different. They aren't selling through OEMs. [Instead], they are selling a component that an integrator uses to make their own system," observed Brian Babineau, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "iQstor bulks up its rack-mounted SAN storage system" SearchStorage.com
11/21/2008
Brian Babineau, an Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst, said the iQ5200 is "the highest-density array out there" for rack-mount systems.

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  "Struggling Sun faces difficult choices about future" NetworkWorldAsia
11/20/2008
Other analysts have questioned whether potential acquirers such as IBM or HP would even want to buy Sun. It's hard to think of a vendor that would shell out cash for Sun's servers, storage and open source software businesses all in one fell swoop, says Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "NetApp partners with software vendors to integrate data protection tools" SearchDataBackup.com
11/14/2008
"Each archiving application is a little bit different," said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "Storage Startup Goes All Out With SSD" InternetNews.com
11/11/2008
High-end disk-based systems still carry price tags in the neighborhood of $4 to $5 per gigabyte, while Violin said its SSD price is about $50 to $60 a gigabyte of data, Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, told InternetNews.com.

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  "Startup offers compliant data archive migration software" SearchStorage.com
11/3/2008
However, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau, these offerings are generally not focused on migrating data from one third-party vendor's archive to another while retaining chain of custody.
     
  "It's time to shred your data" ComputerWorld
10/20/2008
According to research from Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. in Milford, Mass., the average required retention period for files, e-mails and databases is on the rise. Most companies retain such data for four to 10 years, says Brian Babineau, an analyst at ESG.

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  "Storage industry braces for 2009 slowdown in storage spending" SearchStorage.com
10/16/2008
"Venture capitalists are going to be very tight with their portfolios and where they invest," said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "Storage users weather the Wall Street blues" SearchStorage.com
10/9/2008
"Companies with good credit should not be impacted. They can borrow money to continue funding capital purchases," said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "IT industry will buck downturn, say analysts" TechWorld
10/7/2008
The credit problem, resulting from banks being unwilling to add more loans to their current debt loads, is "the biggest threat from a buyer's standpoint," said Brian Babineau, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "LiveOffice provides email service without costly data archiving" SearchSMBStorage.com
9/29/2008
"The challenge for LiveOffice will be to make this known to people and to provision servers very quickly," said analyst Brian Babineau, Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Boon Time for Storage Players" InternetNews.com
9/5/2008
"Information growth will not subside, but capital budgets will," Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, told InternetNews.com.

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  "Dell Consumer Investments Hinder Quarterly Earnings" eWeek.com
8/28/2008
Dell stockholders and investors probably shouldn't worry too much about the Aug. 28 report, said analyst Brian Babineau of Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Sun for sale? Dropping profits, stock price fuel speculation" Linux World
8/21/2008
"In 12 months, Sun will not be the same company it is now," predicts Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "NetApp's enterprise push needs some more pull, say analysts" SearchStorage.com
8/14/2008
Brian Babineau, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, said that increased competition is making it tougher for NetApp to penetrate large shops.

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  "Google's enterprise search device grows up" Calibre Macro World
8/6/2008
With this new GB-7007 model, Google extends that strategy by removing the need to cluster the Search Appliance unless a company needs to index more than 10 million documents, said Brian Babineau, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "EMC 'sitting on Fort Knox' sparks acquisition talk" SearchStorage.com
7/23/2008
"They may be looking for where they can bring Smarts," said ESG analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "Tape Gets Some Respect From IT Giants" InternetNews.com
7/15/2008
"Those who say tape is dead or dying are the uneducated," Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, told InternetNews.com.

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  "Unintentional Misuse Still Tops Email Risk" Image and Data Manager
7/11/2008
“Enterprises continue to focus solely on education programs to change their employees’ casual attitude and behaviour surrounding email,” said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Data Domain, Mimosa add data compliance capabilities" Storage Magazine
6/23/2008
Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau said that organizations will archive more than 200,000 PB of files, archives and emails in the next five years.

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  "How To Handle E-Mail Deluge" Forbes
6/14/2008
According to Brian Babineau, senior analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group, 65% of organizations take such a "mailbox quota" approach to managing the load and place size limits on employee mailboxes.

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  "Advisors Ponder When To Trash Emails" Financial Advisor
6/13/2008
Companies, specifically people in corporate records offices, worry that by deleting the data they lose documents they might need to defend themselves in future litigation, says Brian Babineau, an email archiving analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Lessons Learned When Data Tapes Go Missing" InternetNews.com
6/4/2008
"The law of averages states that, at some point, a tape will be lost because so many are being transferred," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "IBM Puts Data Archive on Center Stage" InternetNews.com
5/28/2008
"The center is unique in the fact that it focuses solely on the process of archiving further segregating it from traditional backup," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

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  "IBM, Iron Mountain Unite on Record Management" InternetNews.com
5/28/2008
Managing electronic records is a significant problem, but when combined with historic and new paper records, document management becomes an extremely challenging job, explained Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Is Storage Recession-Proof?" Enterprise Storage Forum
5/23/2008
Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, said an accelerated depreciation clause in the recent economic stimulus package has also helped boost hardware spending by lowering future depreciation expenses and thus boosting future profits.

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  "EMC's Forecast: Cloud Storage and Flash Drives" PC World
5/22/2008
The potential of flash and cloud storage "are the two themes that are starting to resonate as far as what's next," says Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "CommVault eyes data dedupe, records management and SaaS" SearchStorage.com
5/14/2008
Aaccording to analyst Brian Babineau, Enterprise Strategy Group, "There are three catalysts for backup software right now: backup to disk, VMware, and Windows [Server 2008] refresh."

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  "HP-EDS Merger to Challenge IBM in IT Services" eWeek
5/12/2008
"If HP wasn't considered much of an outsource-services-type company before, it's really one now," Brian Babineau, an analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, told eWEEK.

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  "Mimosa adds file archiving to NearPoint" SearchStorage.com
5/5/2008
"Mimosa is certainly a step behind other vendors in offering file archiving, but they also have the advantage of seeing the limitations of the incumbents," said analyst Brian Babineau, Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Moonwalk Chases CAS With Caringo" Byte and Switch
4/29/2008
“Centera has got 200-plus partners, some of which do file system archiving, which is similar to this [data migration partnership],” says Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau, warning that Moonwalk and Caringo have their work cut out.

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  "Data Explosion Drives Growth For EMC" InternetNews.com
4/23/2008
"It was an extremely well-executed quarter," Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, told InternetNews.com.

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  "Google's New Pricing Approach For Cloud Storage" InternetNews.com
4/14/2008
"Google's offering is not unique from the standpoint of message archiving and discovery as there are many other service providers that have had these capabilities for while," Brian Babineau, senior analyst in the ESG told InternetNews.com.

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  "Autonomy Zantaz automates file classification, data deletion" SearchStorage
4/14/2008
Brian Babineau, an Enterprise Strategy Group analyst, agreed. "Storage folks need to understand that it's about using the information, not just storing it effectively," he said.

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  "Primary databases bloated: analyst firm" ComputerWorld
3/31/2008
"What that says to me is we're just keeping more and more information inside these databases that we don't need, or have to keep for compliance or something else," says Brian Babineau, one of the ESG analysts who worked on the report.

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  "HP Acquires E-discovery Software Firm" eWeek
3/31/2008
SharePoint, a relatively new Microsoft product, is gaining market share by leaps and bounds, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "Primary databases getting bloated" InfoWorld
3/17/2008
"What that says to me is we're just keeping more and more information inside these databases that we don't need, or have to keep for compliance or something else," said Brian Babineau, one of the ESG analysts who worked on the report.

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  "NetApp says flagging economy could boost its sales" SearchStorage.com
3/11/2008
Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau agrees with NetApp's claim that data center consolidation will prompt customers to look at more vendors, potentially opening the door for NetApp.

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  "Reports say SaaS email archives not ready for prime time" SearchStorage.com
2/22/2008
"I'd say I agree with [the reports] about 80%," said Brian Babineau, an Enterprise Strategy Group analyst.

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  "Digital crisis: Motion pictures may fade to black" Computerworld
2/8/2008
According to Brian Babineau, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. (ESG), the two basic choices for digital movie archive media -- tape or disk -- differ in advantages and disadvantages.

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  "Hitachi unveils new data migration services" TradeArabia
2/4/2008
“ESG has found that a large number of end users experience major problems when implementing data migrations including extended or unexpected downtime, data loss and application performance issues,” said Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "Hitachi Virtualizes New Data Migration Services" eWeek.com
1/30/2008
"Data migrations are never easy, no matter how big the data set is or how prepared a customer is," Brian Babineau, storage analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, told eWEEK.

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  "ZDNet Video Whiteboard: Database Protection & Disaster Recovery" ZDNet.com
1/24/2008
This "At the Whiteboard" video from ZDNet features Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analyst Brian Babineau, who discusses the differences between the "storage approach" to protecting information assets to the "database approach."

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  Two New ESG Blogs
1/23/2008
Check out what ESG analysts Brian Babineau and Mark Bowker are thinking in their new blogs. In IT BULLETins, Brian sounds off on technology in bite-sized, easily digested bullet points. In LIquefying IT, Mark covers the ever changing world of IT virtualization.

They join Steve Duplessie's and Jon Oltsik's blogs, already in progress.
     
  "HP offers entry-level medical archiving solution" eChannelLine.com
1/13/2008
"MAS has had limited visibility in the market place and now my expectation is that they are going to increase their awareness and step on the gas from a product refresh standpoint," stated Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "HP gives medical archiving system a facelift" SearchStorage.com
1/10/2008
Medical archive managers have been clamoring for tighter integration between data archiving systems and PACS applications, and the new partnerships show HP's listening, according to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "Kazeon upgrades data classification software" SearchStorage.com
12/11/2007
According to ESG analyst Brian Babineau, Kazeon should support more applications the way it's supporting Exchange.

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  "Index Engines Intros Direct Tape Extraction" Byte and Switch
11/19/2007
"Index Engines has essentially reversed how organizations look for data on backup tapes for electronic discovery purposes," states analyst Brian Babineau of the Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Iron Mountain acquires Stratify for $158M" SearchStorage.com
10/31/2007
There is some evidence that large companies are moving away from Iron Mountain for security reasons, though analyst Brian Babineau of Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) said the Stratify acquisition could make staying with Iron Mountain more persuasive on that front.

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  "Google pumps up enterprise archive search" SearchStorage.com
10/12/2007
The ability to customise the appliance will help Google break into the enterprise, predicted Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.

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  "CA Pulls Parts Together for New Governance Package" eWeek.com
10/10/2007
"CA has had the parts to this solution for about a year and half," Brian Babineau, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, told eWEEK.

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  "How Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Affect Your Storage Plans" Computerworld
10/8/2007
“IT has to be a part of most of these matters because, regardless of whether it’s sexual harassment or slip-and-fall, it all involves some level of electronic information,” says Brian Babineau, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group Inc.

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  "HP steps up information management push" vnunet.com
9/27/2007
Brian Babineau, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, said corporate spending on e-discovery capabilities was set to increase, adding that growing legal risks meant firms had "little choice but to invest in the right technologies to deliver the necessary data quickly and easily".

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  "Storage startups find best audience in smaller users" SearchStorage.com
9/18/2007
The newness of the startups can be a risk, according to Brian Babineau, analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), because a small company stands a bigger chance of going out of business, and also because the small companies that make it don't stay small for long.

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  "Dell Consumer Investments Hinder Quarterly Earnings" eWeek.com
8/28/2007
Dell stockholders and investors probably shouldn't worry too much about the Aug. 28 report, said analyst Brian Babineau of Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Report: Chinese Company Interested in Buying Seagate" eWeek.com
8/25/2007
Brian Babineau, an IT analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass., told eWEEK that it is ignorant if we do not believe that other non-U.S. based countries may be better at producing certain technology products that domestic businesses.

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  "VMware rockets as market tumbles" The Boston Globe
8/15/2007
"Over time, this will be a positive thing for EMC's value," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group. "Investors will start to value the company as parts of a whole. And when they segregate the VMware part, they'll see EMC is undervalued."

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  "Bullish IPO hopes for VMware" San Jose Mercury News
8/14/2007
Analysts say VMware's shares should soar to a significantly higher value than the opening price. "This could be in the $34-to-$35 range at the end of the trading day," said Brian Babineau, a Silicon Valley-based analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Volatility shakes up investors" The Boston Globe
8/10/2007
Among investors and high-tech engineers in California's Silicon Valley, the VMware stock offering has generated "a significant buzz," said Brian Babineau, a senior analyst in Palo Alto for the Enterprise Strategy Group research firm.

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  "NetApp revenues fall $61M short of forecast" SearchStorage.com
8/3/2007
"The most shocking aspect of this announcement is the size of the miss -- almost 10%," wrote Brian Babineau, analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group, to SearchStorage.com in an email, although he added that the dismal financial results will probably be "an aberration."

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  "Cisco, Clearwell Team for 'E-Discovery 2.0' Tools" eWeek.com
7/27/2007
Companies are now responding to legal challenges by adopting E-Discovery 2.0, which uses next-generation technologies to reduce the cost and risks of e-discovery, said senior analyst Brian Babineau of Enterprise Strategy Group, in Milford, Mass.

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  "Google buy shakes up email archiving" SearchStorage.com
7/10/2007
"Google's been undertaking a big push to figure out how to put corporate Gmail in the enterprise," said Brian Babineau, analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

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  "Autonomy Acquires Zantaz for $375 Million" eWeek.com
7/3/2007
"There's no secret that this is an area ripe [of the IT market] for consolidation," Brian Babineau, storage/compliance analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass.

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  "In Search of the Right Search Technology for Your Customers" CIO.com
6/21/2007
“There’s no revenue from better customer service, so it’s hard to fund these projects,” says Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at the consultancy Enterprise Strategy Group.

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  "Xiotech Wants You to Comply" IT Management
6/8/2007
Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, said CEMS makes compliance easy for end users. "Today, most customers have to buy separate archiving software and hardware to achieve these capabilities," he said.

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  "Packaged Approach to E-Discovery" Byte and Switch
6/5/2007
"The regulatory and legal aspects [made users] put a different set of glasses on," explains Brian Babineau, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

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  "Brocade gets into the HBA business" ComputerWeekly.com
5/31/2007
The impact of this move for users will be twofold, according to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analyst Brian Babineau: short term, he said, a third competitor in the HBA market could improve pricing for end users, as well as OEM suppliers and cut down on the number of vendors users have to deal with when deploying a storage area network (SAN).

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  "Symantec, Huawei join forces" IT Business
5/23/2007
Brian Babineau, a senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass., said partnering has become a necessity for North American technology vendors looking to tap into the Chinese market, adding it's difficult to break in any other way.

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  "Understanding enterprise search" ZDNet Video
5/14/2007
For businesses, conventional search engines often deliver too many results or irrelevant information. Brian Babineau of Enterprise Strategy Group explains why enterprise search is a more dynamic approach to accessing corporate data.

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  "VMware aims for $100m IPO" The Boston Globe
4/27/2007
"This has probably been the best technology acquisition in the past three or four years," said Brian Babineau , a senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, a Milford research firm.
     
  "EMC Acquires Its Way to Juggernaut Status" eWeek.com
4/19/2007
When EMC considers an acquisition, it looks at it both strategically and tactically, added Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group of Milford, Mass. "Those that can add immediate top-line revenue and also deliver incremental value to the rest of the business are strategic acquisitions, like VMware, Data General and RSA Security," he said.
     
  "SNW in Focus, Day 1" ComputerWorld
4/17/2007
Click the link to view a video in which Brian Babineau, senior analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group, is interviewed on the first day of Storage Networking World about the convergence between server virtualization and storage networking, clustering, and integration issues relating to virtualization software and VMWare.
     
  "Opinion: This SNW's about resource management and optimization" Computerworld
4/16/2007
Click the link to read Brian Babineau's article at Computerworld previewing the important themes to watch out for at this year's Storage Networking World conference.
     
  "IBM eyes FalconStor acquisition, sources say" SearchStorage.com
4/11/2007
Analysts agree a deal between IBM and FalconStor makes sense. "IBM can certainly afford them," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Half a billion dollars is a rounding error for IBM, with a market capitalization of $145 billion.
     
  "Nexsan, Reldata Combine for Unified NAS/SAN Package" eWeek.com
4/5/2007
"This is a high-density product that is relatively cost-effective, when you compare it against some others in the same ballpark," Brian Babineau, storage analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass., told eWEEK. "Its versatility is also a good selling point, since you can use any kind of SAN or NAS [network-attached storage] connectivity on it."
     
  "ISPs fear SAFETY Act retention requirements" SearchStorage.com
3/1/2007
Meanwhile, ESG research analyst Bill Lundell also pointed out that there are already procedures in place and even laws already on the books that provide regulations for ISPs to work with law enforcement. He cited the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which already grants the Department of Homeland Security the ability to monitor Internet users they suspect of preying on children or of participating in terrorist activities.
     
  "Use ILM to Store Data Properly and Securely" cioupdate.com
2/26/2007
“This is the biggest ILM abyss,” said Brian Babineau, analyst for The Enterprise Strategy Group. Departments will bicker and personal agendas may trump true value. There are few types of data that everyone will value similarly. “Confidential customer records and things like credit card numbers will have a high value,” Babineau said. Beyond that, it’s up for grabs.
     
  "Don't Wait for FDA to Define Risk -- the Agency Isn't" Edata Integrity Report
1/22/2007
But lack of specifics from the FDA is making it tougher for regulated life sciences companies, said Brian Babineau, an analyst with The Enterprise Strategy Group. “Industry wants more specifics because no one knows what to expect” from the agency in terms of expectations and enforcement. “The more [the specifics of risk] is left open to interpretation, the more confusion” it generated for everyone, he said.
     
  "Rules About to Change in e-Discovery Game" Enterprise Storage Forum
11/7/2006
"People have to have a better understanding of what they're creating, what information they're storing and for how long they're storing it," adds Brian Babineau, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, who agrees that most companies don't know where all of their data is kept.
     
  Best Practices in Intelligent Information Management Webinar Sponsored by Solix
9/12/2006
Recent ESG research suggests that on average, 54% of corporate data stored within databases contains confidential information. With emerging information privacy and information security regulations, both domestic and abroad, organizations must re-evaluate how they manage database information.
     
  SNW Spring
4/2/2006
ESG Analysts will be attending the SNW Spring event in San Diego, CA.
     
  Unified Compliance Summit
2/22/2006
Brian Babineau, Analyst, will be speaking at this event located in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace.
     
  Storage Technology Courted Buyers Before Sun Microsystems Merger
7/15/2005
Brian Babineau, an analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass., agreed that StorageTek was entertaining a number of options, but "it's hard to say they had a for-sale sign sitting on their front lawn.
     
  Symantec-Veritas Merger Gets Higher Marks As Deal Closes
7/5/2005
"Information protection and data security can no longer be separate," says Brian Babineau, an analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.
     
  Iron Mountain turns corner after Time Warner failure
6/30/2005
Brian Babineau, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, added that 50 percent of enterprises do not adequately backup systems to prevent data loss.
     
  WATERS BREAKFAST BRIEFING
6/1/2005
Our panel consisted of Joseph Steffan, director of technology compliance for Lehman Brothers; Brian Babineau, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group; and Paul Johns, vice president of global marketing for Orchestria, the compliance solutions firm.
     
  EMC leads in Massachusetts
3/13/2005
Brian Babineau explains EMC's strategy for acquisition and expansion
     
  A Skittish Moment for EMC
1/27/2005
And EMC may be responsible for some of the pain itself. As IBM (IBM ) has delayed the availability of its newest high-end storage system, dubbed Shark, EMC has been circling the waters, luring Big Blue's customers with aggressive discounts, says Brian Babineau, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, a Milford (Mass.) consulting firm.
     
  2004 Compliance Seminar: Best Practices for Storage Management
10/13/2004
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL

The 2004 Compliance Seminar is an exclusive six-city compliance best practices and solutions open forum event for senior IT and storage executives.
     
  2004 Compliance Seminar: Best Practices for Storage Management
10/6/2004
Southgate Tower, New York, NY

The 2004 Compliance Seminar is an exclusive six-city compliance best practices and solutions open forum event for senior IT and storage executives.
     
  2004 Compliance Seminar: Best Practices for Storage Management
9/30/2004
JW Marriott Hotel on Westheimer by the Galleria
5150 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77056
713-961-1500

The 2004 Compliance Seminar is an exclusive six-city compliance best practices and solutions open forum event for senior IT and storage executives.
     
  2004 Compliance Seminar: Best Practices for Storage Management
9/28/2004
Wyndham Buttes Resort
2000 Westcourt Way
Tempe, AZ 85282
602-225-9000

The 2004 Compliance Seminar is an exclusive six-city compliance best practices and solutions open forum event for senior IT and storage executives.
     
  1,700 Users Get Accellion's Enterprise E-Mail Solution
8/27/2004
The Accellion Attachments caching solution streamlines e-mail communications between staff scientists and partner research organizations.
     
  Adaptec to snap up Snap Appliance
7/16/2004
Computer component maker Adaptec has agreed to acquire data storage device company Snap Appliance, the companies said Tuesday.
     
  Sun may be emerging from cloud
6/9/2004
Sun Microsystems' moves to sell data storage and services on a subscription basis may be considered defensive, gimmicky and late -- but that's doesn't mean they're bad ideas.

     
  Breece Hill Targets SMBs
5/7/2004
Brian Babineau discusses Breece Hill's new data protection offering
     
  'Adaptive enterprise' emerges, says HP
5/5/2004
Hewlett-Packard says that its strategy, which some have derided as fuzzy, is about to be realised in new products
     
  HP touts customers, new products
5/4/2004
Hewlett-Packard says its "adaptive enterprise" strategy--called fuzzy by some--is coming into focus.
 
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