ESG Research Brief: European Enterprise IT Embraces Emerging Data Center Technologies and Best Practices 7/18/2008 Enterprise-class European and North American IT management teams share similar profiles with regard to the infrastructure they support and the major business and IT initiatives that shape their IT management strategies. Yet, European IT teams lead North America when it comes to deploying emerging technologies, such as Web 2.0 and SOA, and are far ahead in making production use of ITIL best practices. European organizations have largely bought into the value of ITIL to help them manage complex IT environments, leading to increased levels of IT effectiveness and business/IT alignment, while North American decision makers still struggle to see the ROI from best practices frameworks. 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: NetBackup PureDisk from Symantec - Efficient, Storage-Optimized Data Protection 6/10/2008 A growing number of organizations are deploying disk to disk backup and data de-duplication technologies to improve the speed and reliability of their backup and disaster recovery operations. This ESG Lab Validation Report examines Symantec’s family of backup and recovery solutions that combine the power of the PureDisk global data de-duplication engine with industry-leading NetBackup backup and recovery software to improve the speed and reliability of disk-based data protection while reducing the cost of disk capacity and network bandwidth.

< Home   < Search   Search All records In The News  (583 found) Upcoming Events  (7 found) Briefs  (800 found) Research Reports  (81 found) Lab Reports  (104 found) In The News (583 found) "OnStor purrs at high-end enterprise NAS space with Cougar gateway" SearchStorage.com Even if OnStor beats NetApp's GX integration, that doesn't necessarily mean that OnStor has control of the market, according to ESG analyst Terri McClure. Click the link to read more. "EMC Links Cloud Storage, Hard Drives" InternetNews.com ESG analyst Lauren Whitehouse said such products offer better "peace of mind" for small enterprises. Click the link to read more. "Harris: A10 Networks drawing investors" Mercury News It's like a cop on the information superhighway who escorts vital digital traffic into the carpool lane - and accelerates it, said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Jon Oltsik. Click the link to read more. "EMC system backs up data at home or online" The Boston Globe Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, said the EMC system offers better security than relying only on an external drive for backup. Click the link to read more. "Paragon looking to woo partners from rivals" eChannelLine Paragon is a well-established profitable company (200 employees, 150 solutions, worldwide presence) with two divisions -- mobility applications and storage management, explained Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Tape Gets Some Respect From IT Giants" InternetNews.com "Those who say tape is dead or dying are the uneducated," Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, told InternetNews.com. Click the link to read more. "Identity Engines Releases Authenticated Network Architecture" TMCnet "The deployment of authenticated networks has been slower than the network industry originally anticipated," commented Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Unintentional Misuse Still Tops Email Risk" Image and Data Manager “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. Click the link to read more. "Sun expands storage range" TechWorld.com "For the (general enterprise) market, they don't want to internally engineer a solution, they want a bundle," said Terri McClure, of Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Introduction to 10 Gigabit Ethernet" SearchNetworking.com As data centers are consolidated, the demand on each data center's core network increases, according to Bob Laliberte, analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, an industry analyst firm. Click the link to read more. "VMware appoints Paul Maritz as new President and CEO" eChannelLine.com Mark Bowker, Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, credited Greene with bringing VMware to an "amazing" place in the market, driving innovation, creating many jobs and spearheading environmental initiatives, but said that the recent and sudden increase in competition in the marketplace was likely a factor VMware's decision to bring in Maritz. Click the link to read more. "Big Five IT Vendors Announce Focus on Security" InfoSecurity The move was welcomed by Charlotte Dunlap, senior information security analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, who told Infosecurity: “There's a great need for better collaboration between industry leaders as a way to combat mounting Internet threats coming from more sophisticated criminals and targeted attacks. Click the link to read more. "Experts weigh in on industry security consortium" SearchSecurity.com Charlotte Dunlap, senior information security analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, said ICASI sounds like a sorely needed alliance between major infrastructure providers. Click the link to read more. "DataDirect: A Little-Known Hollywood Story" Investor's Business Daily The firm's products fit a rising need, says Steve Duplessie, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Q-layer Introduces the Agile Data Center for Cloud Computing" Sys-Con Media "Q-layer's Virtual Private Data Center concept establishes a new level of flexibility for data center operations," said Mark Bowker, analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Tek-Tools Enhances IT Resource Management Software to Deliver End-to-End Visibility of Virtualization IT Assets" SOAWorld Magazine “The never-ending challenge to every IT organization is to support business applications with infrastructure that ensures little to no down time,” said Bob Laliberte, Enterprise Strategy Group Analyst. Click the link to read more. "Low flash storage prices get enterprise attention" Network World Asia Mark Peters, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, compares a spinning hard drive to your hand hovering over a checkerboard. Click the link to read more. "Sun Joins Role-Based Provisioning Fray" InternetNews.com "I think the game is changing for identity management, and Sun is reacting to those changes," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst John Oltsik told InternetNews.com. Click the link to read more. "iStor builds world's fastest SME iSCSI array" Blocks and Files Mark Peters, an Enterprise Strategy Group analyst, says: "Although 1GbE is the customary network interface today, and well established in most SMB environments, the mass-adoption of 10GbE is close to – or maybe at – a tipping-point." Click the link to read more. "HP brings new data dedup technology to market" eChannelLine.com "In the VLS product, they've implemented de-dupe as a post-process, which offers the benefit of writing and recovery at disk speeds," says Lauren Whitehouse, ESG Analyst. Click the link to read more. "Data Domain, Mimosa add data compliance capabilities" Storage Magazine 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. Click the link to read more. ESG Expands Analyst Practice “Charlotte Dunlap is a well-known and respected security analyst,” said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst and Practice Leader, ESG. Click the link to read more. "BMC buys finance management software company" ComputerWorldUK "This is all stuff that for the most part BMC doesn't have, or if they do have it, it's not that strong," said Mary Johnston Turner, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "HP software gains automation features, tighter integration" ComputerWorld "Our research shows that ITIL V3 adoption is taking place very slowly and many organizations face cultural challenges in implementing collaborative planning and release processes," says Mary Johnston Turner, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. ESG Named One of World’s Top Ten Global Analyst Firms “We are pleased, of course, to have ESG recognized as one of the top ten industry analyst firms on the planet,” said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst. Click the link to read more. "Magic Storage: Cheap and Simple" InternetNews.com "This is all about smaller and cheaper," Mark Peters, Enterprise Strategy Group analyst, told InternetNews.com. Click the link to read more. "Double-Take Announces Product Line for Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization" Sys-Con Media "Organizations adopting Hyper-V for their virtual infrastructure will require data protection solutions to ensure the same business resilience as in their physical environments. Double-Take Software’s cost-effective recovery platform reduces downtime and data loss, ensuring ready access to data," stated Lauren Whitehouse, analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Five hot -- and cool -- storage technologies" "The long and short of it is, to use current parlance, they're very green and very fast," says Mark Peters, analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "How To Handle E-Mail Deluge" Forbes 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. Click the link to read more. "Advisors Ponder When To Trash Emails" Financial Advisor 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. Click the link to read more. "Brocade extends data center performance with advanced server-to-storage network" India Infoline “The use of server virtualization for optimized asset utilization and cost-effective disaster recovery is driving the need for more dynamic movement of data and applications across different physical server environments,” said Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Analyst Bob Laliberte. Click the link to read more. "Symantec Goes Virtual With Servers, Storage" InternetNews.com The challenge is the lack of management tools, said Bob Laliberte, an analyst, with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Click the link to read more. "Atempo supports mobile computing backup" eChannelLine Atempo is a data management company that started in the backup space and through innovation and acquisition has expanded its portfolio to include CDP and archiving as it targets such markets as media entertainment, financial services, government/education and legal, stated Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Where should you encrypt your data?" SearchDataBackup.com Jon Oltsik, senior analyst, information security at the Enterprise Strategy Group, Milford, Mass., says tape encryption today is mostly done in appliances, with Decru Inc. (a division of NetApp Inc.) boasting one of the most substantial customer lists. Click the link to read more. "Lessons Learned When Data Tapes Go Missing" InternetNews.com "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. Click the link to read more. "EqualLogic Gives Dell a Boost" TMCnet Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters said iSCSI growth in general is being driven by server virtualization. Click the link to read more. "How server virtualization affects storage" InfoStor An ESG Research survey of virtual server users reveals some interesting storage technology and implementation trends. Click the link to read more. "HDS re-brands, beefs up Storage Command" eChannelLine For Mark Peters, an analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, the devil will be in the details in Storage Command. Click the link to read more. "IBM Puts Data Archive on Center Stage" InternetNews.com "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). Click the link to read more. "VMware to Buy B-hive" InternetNews.com "It's interesting to see VMware aligning itself closer to what Citrix does," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Bowker told InternetNews.com. Click the link to read more. "IBM, Iron Mountain Unite on Record Management" InternetNews.com 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. Click the link to read more. "Application Acceleration Looks to Go Virtual" InternetNews.com That's going to be the beginning of a trend, Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Bob Laliberte told InternetNews.com. Click the link to read more. "Verari Systems and Xsigo Systems Announce Integrated Virtualization Solution" SYS-CON “Blade systems are an ideal complement for server virtualization,” said Mark Bowker, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. New ESG Blog Check out our latest blogger. In Mark My Words, analyst Mark Peters will share his thoughts and insights on all things worthy of note—both inside and outside the data center. Musings will range from green IT and storage systems to categories completely unrelated to technology—all viewed from Mark’s unique vantage point as an ESG analyst. Click the link to see what’s on Mark’s mind and while you’re there, be sure to check in on ESG’s other bloggers. "Data Glut" Asbury Park Press More than 50 percent of companies can't tolerate more than four hours of downtime without it hurting their business, said Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Is Storage Recession-Proof?" Enterprise Storage Forum 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. Click the link to read more. "Double-Take eases virtual server migration" NetworkWorld "Performing P2V- or V2V-based replication with Double-Take and the new Virtual Recovery Assistant can deliver significant improvements over tape-based recoveries, especially lowering recovery time objectives," said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Brocade and EMC join forces to develop encryption and key management solutions" CTR “Fabric-based encryption can help reduce the complexity of storage encryption,” said Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst Jon Oltsik. Click the link to read more. "EMC's Forecast: Cloud Storage and Flash Drives" PC World 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. Click the link to read more. "MokaFive Promises Easier Virtualization Control" InternetNews.com The MokaFive Virtual Desktop Solution could prove useful to smaller companies, which could run desktops in the cloud and outsource their helpdesks, but "we're pretty far from that right now," said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Bowker. Click the link to read more. "Playing hardball" The Boston Globe "They are executing on all cylinders right now," says Steve Duplessie, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. in Milford. Click the link to read more. "EMC adds de-duplication to disk libraries" InfoStor Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analyst Lauren Whitehouse says this level of flexibility gives EMC the ability to satisfy multiple use cases for the application of the technology, but she says the question of performance is a tricky one. Click the link to read more. "VMware Shores up its Position" InternetNews.com "It was a VMware-only game for quite a long time, but now Citrix has significantly upped their game," said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Bowker. Click the link to read more. "Silver Peak Scales Up WAN Optimizers" Byte and Switch "This isn't for an SMB; this is for those large data centers that have huge bandwidth concerns between their data centers," says Bob Laliberte, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Three-Layer Encryption Method Awarded Patent" Byte and Switch Jon Oltsik, senior analyst for information security at the Enterprise Strategy Group, says the Tricryption technology approach could provide a more cohesive way to manage encrypted data replication. Click the link to read more. "CommVault eyes data dedupe, records management and SaaS" SearchStorage.com 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." Click the link to read more. "Brocade Unveils 8-Gig Switches, HBAs" Enterprise Storage Forum "The use of server virtualization for optimized asset utilization and cost-effective disaster recovery is driving the need for more dynamic movement of data and applications across different physical server environments," stated Enterprise Strategy Group Analyst Bob Laliberte. Click the link to read more. "VMware Enters Replication Arena" InternetNews.com "Once you go to a virtual environment, you have to look at the VM and figure out if you back that up the same way you do your physical system," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Lauren Whitehouse told InternetNews.com. Click the link to read more. "Brocade Extends Data Center Performance With Virtualization Support" Sys-Con "The use of server virtualization for optimized asset utilization and cost-effective disaster recovery is driving the need for more dynamic movement of data and applications across different physical server environments," said Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Analyst Bob Laliberte. Click the link to read more. Data Domain boosts de-duplication performance InfoStor Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Heidi Biggar says there is an important difference between single-stream performance and aggregate performance, especially when protecting large databases that can't be broken into pieces to back up. Click the link to read more. "HP-EDS Merger to Challenge IBM in IT Services" eWeek "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. Click the link to read more. "Tracking Storage Usage in Virtual Environments Still a Challenge" Byte and Switch "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 "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 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. "Hacker marketplace to help build 0day appliance" By integrating its unique research into a single device, Oneshield is doing the same thing as many larger security companies, said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Mimosa adds file archiving to NearPoint" SearchStorage.com "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. Click the link to read more. "Tech Heavies Push For Datacenter Standards" InternetNews.com "They may play lip service to the cause, but they won't really change their stripes," Steve Duplessie, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, told InternetNews.com. Click the link to read more. "EMC Mozy targets Mac backup" SearchDataBackup.com EMC will expand Mozy's Mac capabilities but is not alone in the Mac SaaS backup space, according to analyst Lauren Whitehouse, Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Automated virtual machine lifecycle" NetworkTimes "A recent ESG survey of current and planned virtual server adopters, showed that current users expect that the number of their virtual machines will grow by 173% over the next two years," said Mark Bowker, industry analyst at ESG. Click the link to read more. "Matisse Networks New vMETRO for Metro Network Virtualization and Scaling of IT Infrastructure" TMCnet “We are on the brink of advancing from the current era of virtualizing individual servers to true datacenter automation,” said Mark Bowker, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Moonwalk Chases CAS With Caringo" Byte and Switch “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. Click the link to read more. "HBAs explained" SearchStorage.com "The HBA is an integral part of the SAN environment," says Bob Laliberte, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Future data centre building blocks lack mortar" SearchStorage Bob Laliberte, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), agrees that DCX and Nexus are a ways from crossing paths. Click the link to read more. "‘iWikiCloudStorage 2.0’ or . . .? " InfoStor This article, by ESG Analyst Mark Peters, addresses the next wave of storage and what it means for organizations. Click the link to read more. "CDP moves into the maturity phase" InfoStor Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analyst Lauren Whitehouse explains. “If an application or database is interrupted before all transactions have successfully been written to disk, then recovery of data from this crash-consistent image will take longer. When all transactions are written to disk before shutting down, recovery is from transaction-consistent images." Click the link to read more. "Midmarket Gearing Up for WAN Compression" eWeek Although the trend may have started in larger organizations with remote offices or branch offices, it's definitely catching on in the midmarket, where companies have similar issues, said Bob Laliberte, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Storage Security Standards Heat Up" Enterprise Storage Forum "AES-256 is an established and widely used standard while the others are works in progress," said Jon Oltsik, information security analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Data Explosion Drives Growth For EMC" InternetNews.com "It was an extremely well-executed quarter," Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, told InternetNews.com. Click the link to read more. "Emulex unleashes Fibre Channel over Ethernet" eChannelLine Without running separate NIC and HBA cards for Ethernet and Fibre Channel respectively as is the case now in the data center, there are cost savings from a cabling perspective, explains Bob Laliberte, an analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "IBM acquires Diligent for de-duplication" InfoStor "There is a focus at IBM that wasn't there six or 12 months ago," says Heidi Biggar, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Deduplication Gets More Face Time" InternetNews.com Enterprise Strategy Group research analyst Heidi Biggar goes as far as stating that such tools "aren't just 'nice-to-haves,' they are becoming 'must haves.'" Click the link to read more. "CRM services partners Salesforce.com and Google target Microsoft" SearchITChannel.com The Software as a Service (SaaS) approach championed by Google and Salesforce.com represents a "cultural shift" in the enterprise market and brings some "unique challenges" to the channel, said Bob Laliberte, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass. Click the link to read more. "Google's New Pricing Approach For Cloud Storage" InternetNews.com "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. Click the link to read more. "Autonomy Zantaz automates file classification, data deletion" SearchStorage 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. Click the link to read more. "HP Introduces Security Products to Maximize Data Protection and Minimize Risk for Businesses" The FINANCIAL “Companies of all sizes are grappling with how to handle increased business risks associated with data center sprawl, network attacks and new regulatory pressures,” said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst of Information Security at analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Juniper, Microsoft to be among RSA Conference newsmakers" NetworkWorld Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, says “a few others, TippingPoint, Internet Security Systems [now part of IBM] and McAfee,” have gear to compete at those speeds. Click the link to read more. "Can EMC Romance SMBs?" InternetNews.com "The companies are already partnering, so the next step would be to incorporate the [EMC] Mozy solution in that mix and engage Iomega customers with either an online backup strategy or a complement to the Lifeline solution with 'cloud' storage," said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "EMC weds IT and security in new physical security solutions" eChannelLine The marriage of IT and security is still at the preliminary stage, commented Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "ITIL, automation provide recipe for datacenter management" InfoWorld "Effective IT management in today's complex data centers requires timely, accurate views of how servers , storage , networks, software and end-user systems are interacting," writes Mary Johnston Turner, senior market research analyst and primary author of the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) report "2008 IT Service & Infrastructure Management Survey." Click the link to read more. "HP Acquires E-discovery Software Firm" eWeek SharePoint, a relatively new Microsoft product, is gaining market share by leaps and bounds, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau. Click the link to read more. "Primary databases bloated: analyst firm" ComputerWorld "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. Click the link to read more. "Brocade offers user friendly file manager" eChannelLine Currently, the sharing of information electronically across an organization can be time-consuming and frustrating, reported Bob Laliberte, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "How to Secure VOIP" eWeek The first step, said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst for information security at Enterprise Strategy Group, is to harden management servers by turning off any unnecessary services and making sure that administrator passwords aren't obvious. Click the link to read more. "Report: Cost-Conscious Still Cling to Dusty Storage Tech" eWeek What’s keeping older backup technologies ensconced is that they’re easy to implement, and, quite simply, businesses have already shelled out the money for them, said ESG analyst Lauren Whitehouse. Click the link to read more. New ESG Research Identifies IT Service Management Automation and Best Practices as Essential in Today’s Complex Data Centers Report shows it is “virtually impossible” to effectively manage virtualized data centers without help from automated management tools. Click the link to read more. "Citrix XenServer now embedded on HP servers" eChannelLine What excites Mark Bowker, an analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, is the user- friendly aspect of the Citrix-XenServer sitting on top of a HP ProLiant server. Click the link to read more. "Symantec puts out Windows package" Viet Nam News Windows is the most pervasive business platform in the market today. For many organisations, reliance on this technology is now a crucial means of supporting business objectives," said Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Hewlett-Packard tries new storage automation focus" SearchStorage.com The software will likely make it easier for HP products to solve interdisciplinary problems in IT, such as rolling out server virtualisation, according to Enterprise Strategy Group market research analyst Mary Turner. Click the link to read more. "Wells Fargo Banks on Online Storage" InternetNews.com Bob Laliberte, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, expects most nonstorage organizations to take an OEM approach as storage isn't a core focus. Click the link to read more. "Bell Micro signs up Micron" eChannelLine Everyone is seriously examining the technology, stated Mark Peters, an analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "EMC bumps up bid for Iomega" The Boston Globe Tony Prigmore, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, said EMC's bid for Iomega is part of a long-standing plan to make EMC a significant supplier of storage gear to small businesses and consumers. Click the link to read more. "Juniper Networks Integrates Best-in-Class Security Services Into JUNOS Software" Al Bawaba “Enterprise infrastructures are often inundated by multiple, inconsistent versions and releases of network operating systems, which can result in unpredictable security and performance as new features are enabled on the network,” said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Primary databases getting bloated" InfoWorld "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. Click the link to read more. "HP airs datacenter makeover plan" InfoWorld "All of the major vendors are pushing the simplification of IT for their customers," says Mary Turner, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Juniper Wraps Security Services Into JUNOS" ChannelWeb According to Jon Olstik, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, a single-source operating system can translate to lower management and maintenance costs for both VARs and end customers. Click the link to read more. "Saving Energy in the Server Room" PC Magazine Mark Peters, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, says some alternative energy sources for data centers, such as wind-powered turbines, are carbon-negative (meaning their environmental impact is less than some of the current power-generator options) when the energy required to manufacture them is factored in. Click the link to read more. "Crossbeam Systems of Boxborough has worldwide appeal" The Boston Globe "Crossbeam marries a high-speed platform with the best security software, giving customers a number of options - like a food court," said Jon Oltsik, a senior analyst with Milford-based Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "EMC chases Iomega for consumer storage" SearchStorage.com Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Bob Laliberte said Iomega is the choicest prospect for EMC as it continues its move into the consumer market. Click the link to read more. "Embotics Educates Readers on Virtualization Technology and Maintaining Control of their IT Infrastructures" SOA World “IT organizations must concentrate on the planning, control, inspection and enforcement of virtual machines for conducting best practices in managing and automating processes,” said Mark Bowker, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "NetApp says flagging economy could boost its sales" SearchStorage.com 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. Click the link to read more. "Iomega turns down $178m bid from EMC" The Boston Globe "Clearly EMC has placed a whole bunch of bets that allow them to move into the consumer and small business segment," said Tony Prigmore, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford. Click the link to read more. "Are storage vendor promises of greater power efficiency mainly hype?" eChannelLine.com Nevertheless, stated Brian Garrett, an analyst and technical director at the Enterprise Strategy Group which regularly tests out the latest storage products, "there is a kernel of truth" in the assertions made by Vellante. Click the link to read more. "Riverbed customers cry foul over AutoCAD incompatibility" SearchStorage.com Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Bob Laliberte said the outcome in this case could set an important precedent. Click the link to read more. "Exanet Announces ExaStore '08" Byte and Switch Organizations must find better ways to manage, protect and store their file data, says Mark Peters, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "BlueArc Doubles Titan Storage to Four Petabytes" Bio-IT World “The key to much of the Titan 3000’s ability is the parallel architecture that BlueArc has employed from day one,” says Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters. Click the link to read more. "HP slots new disk array into EVA line" SearchStorage.com "We spend a huge amount of time talking about startups with neat technology," said Mark Peters, an Enterprise Strategy Group analyst. "It would be nice to see HP selling standalone storage outside the HP base." Click the link to read more. "Neterion 10GB Ethernet Adapters May Cure Big Virtualization Headache: I/O Bottlenecks" CIO "It's about running multiple bandwidth-intensive applications as a virtual machine on a single physical server," says Mark Bowker, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "IT risk myths uncovered" CRN Australia “It is encouraging to see Symantec’s report highlight that organisations are recognising the criticality of managing IT risk in areas such as availability and performance in addition to security,” said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "EMC links local and remote data protection" SearchStorage.com "CDP has been most successful when deployed as a feature of an accepted data protection technology, such as backup or replication," said Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "EMC Gets Personal" "The most important part of this is that EMC is placing another bet in a segment of the market that will provide both revenue growth and strategic diversification," said Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Tony Prigmore. Click the link to read more. "Reports say SaaS email archives not ready for prime time" SearchStorage.com "I'd say I agree with [the reports] about 80%," said Brian Babineau, an Enterprise Strategy Group analyst. Click the link to read more. "NetApp expands distribution coverage for StoreVault" eChannelLine.com Right now, StoreVault represents "statistically" an insignificant portion of NetApp's revenues but the vendor aims to change that, stated Paul Myerson, senior channel analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Data Domain cuts the cost of de-duplication" Computerworld De-duplication has mainly been seen as a data center technology, thanks to the amount of storage and processing involved. Smaller devices such as the DD120 could allow the technology to be applied much more widely, said Steve Duplessie, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. Click the link to read more. "Storage changes: Band-Aids and plastic surgery" InfoStor This article by Mark Peters, ESG Analyst, reviews the changes that have taken place in the storage world over the past year and provides insight into what may be to come. Click the link to read more. "Digital Archiving Circa 2008: Addressing Long-Term Data Storage and Preservation Requirements" Broadcast Newsroom ESG Analyst Heidi Biggar addresses the digital content explosion and its effect on businesses. Click the link to read more. "VMware, LeftHand offer iSCSI SAN as virtual machine" SearchStorage.com "VMware is showing it means to take the value of the hypervisor well beyond server virtualization with this release," said Mark Bowker, an Enterprise Strategy Group analyst. Click the link to read more. New ESG Research ESG's most recent research report, "Data Protection Market Trends," is based on a survey of 398 North American IT decision makers regarding their organizations’ current and planned uses of data protection processes and technology. Examples of data protection processes and technologies include backup and recovery, data replication, snapshots and continuous data protection (CDP). For more information on the contents and findings of this report, please click the link to download the executive summary. "NetApp targets storage for virtualized servers" eChannelLine "Customers are clearly transforming their data centers today or are in process of transforming them into these highly virtualized states of server resources and storage resources," commented Bob Laliberte, analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Virtualization - Asigra Televaulting Delivers 'Unobtrusive Virtual Server Data Protection' " SOAWorld “Reducing capital and operational costs, better utilizing resources and creating cost-effective disaster recovery strategies are just a few of the reasons why companies—both small and large—are deploying server virtualization,” said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Digital crisis: Motion pictures may fade to black" Computerworld 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. Click the link to read more. Latest ESG Blog We’re happy to welcome Heidi Biggar back into the ESG Blogs community. In her newly retitled blog, Driven to Tiers, Heidi will cover the latest news and trends related to data protection and digital archiving -- all from her vantage point as an ESG analyst. "Hitachi unveils new data migration services" TradeArabia “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. Click the link to read more. "WAN Acceleration & WAFS Take New Turn" Byte and Switch With the likes of Facebook and YouTube now part of daily life, there is a growing need for technologies that can speed up applications over the WAN, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Bowker. Click the link to read more. "Teneros Exchanges E-Mail Protection for Cash" Enterprise Storage Forum Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Lauren Whitehouse said Teneros' software performs an object-level replication of the Exchange database, making sure that corruptions are not replicated. Click the link to read more. "2008: The Year of the Storage Vendor" Computer Technology Review According to Bob Laliberte, storage analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), “Disk prices are definitely dropping year over year, and overall disk purchases are continuing to rise.” Click the link to read more. "IT risk moves higher on security radar, report finds" SearchCIO.com Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at The Enterprise Strategy Group Inc., in Milford Mass., said the study points out that expectations have not caught up with reality. Click the link to read more. "With Cisco's Nexus switch, the network now rules the data centre" SearchNetworking.com "This switch provides a much higher level of throughput, which is becoming increasingly... important in highly virtualised environments for both LAN and storage connectivity," said Bob Laliberte, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Brocade Unveils the Brocade DCX Backbone for Evolving Data Center Networks" Al-Bawaba - Jordan "The virtual server phenomenon has been awesome to watch. Massive consolidation, efficiency improvements and fluidity are all now possible – assuming that the rest of the infrastructure can support it,” said Enterprise Strategy Group Founder and Senior Analyst Steve Duplessie. Click the link to read more. "Turner Broadcasting turns to newcomer Omneon for grid storage" SearchStorage.com Still, according to Brian Garrett, technical director of Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab, "There's a really good chance big companies will have a run for their money" when they release systems into this market. Click the link to read more. "Storage Bridge Bay Working Group released SBB 2.0 Specification" Computer Technology Review “I'm happy to see the SBB initiative progressing,” said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "Hitachi Virtualizes New Data Migration Services" eWeek.com "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. Click the link to read more. "For the First Time, VMware Takes a Shot" eWeek.com Mark Bowker, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, told eWEEK that the timing was particularly unlucky for the quarterly VMware earnings call. Click the link to read more. "Cisco to Sell Faster Switch for Flood of Remote Data" The New York Times “I expect that Cisco will do well as compared to other network vendors that have not made the same investments into the data center,” said Bob Laliberte, an analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group research firm, who was given an advance briefing on the new product. Click the link to read more. "Storage Bridge Bay Working Group Issues 2.0 Specification" Earthtimes.org "I'm happy to see the SBB initiative progressing," said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "CommVault offers storage SaaS for data backup monitoring" SearchStorage.com "Six dollars a month per client as opposed to the cost of an employee, especially on nights, weekends and holidays. . .if you think about what you'd have to pay staff to work on those days, seems like it's pretty affordable," said Lauren Whitehouse, Enterprise Strategy Group analyst. Click the link to read more. "ZDNet Video Whiteboard: Database Protection & Disaster Recovery" ZDNet.com 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." Click the link to read more. "FalconStor clusters VTL data deduplication" SearchStorage.com Clustering could also lead to higher data deduplication ratios by spreading the process across nodes instead of doing it on a per node basis, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Heidi Biggar. Click the link to read more. Two New ESG Blogs 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. "How green is your data center?" InfoStor According to Mark Peters, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group who focuses on green issues, storage typically accounts for approximately 35% of an IT infrastructure’s overall power/ cooling consumption. Click the link to read more. "FalconStor Dives Into De-Dupe" Byte and Switch "This is an opportunity for them to re-launch their data-de-dupe capabilities," says Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Heidi Biggar. Click the link to read more. "EMC enters backup fray" Computer Business Review Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Lauren Whitehouse said that MozyEnterprise is not as sophisticated as many other online backup services, and for example does not support non-Windows servers, or Oracle and SAP applications. Click the link to read more. "How to choose a DR service provider" SearchCIO.com Australia Costs vary widely depending on what you're after: disaster recovery or business continuity. "If it's business continuity, then it involves more than backup tapes," said Bob Laliberte, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "EMC to sell flash drives" Austrailian IT "Most likely this will create a giant gap against IBM and Hitachi," said Steve Duplessie, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Click the link to read more. "ESG Lab looks ahead to 2008" Tekrati Hands-on product test labs are common among CE industry analysts, but have become rare among enterprise IT industry analysts. I asked Brian Garrett, who heads the ESG Lab, for a quick introduction and update for Tekrati readers. Click the link to read more. "Disaster recovery shortcomings addressed by Continuity Software" SearchDataCenter.com to Bob Laliberte, an analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group, RecoverGuard v 2.0 is unique compared with other disaster recovery software offerings. Click the link to read more. "Fortisphere Takes Aims at Virtualization 'Sprawl'" CIO India Mark Bowker, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, said one strength of Fortisphere is its ability to manage virtual machines across multiple hypervisors -- VMware, Citrix's XenServer and Microsoft's Hyper-V. Click the link to read more. "HP offers entry-level medical archiving solution" eChannelLine.com "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. Click the link to read more. "HP gives medical archiving system a facelift" SearchStorage.com 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. Click the link to read more.