Information and Risk Management
Symantec claims it increased the backup speed in its NetBackup enterprise backup application with the addition of a NetBackup Accelerator feature. The accelerator feature reduces traditional full backups to the speed of incremental backups for millions of small files, according to Symantec.
“They say the speed has been increased by 100 ...
Given the promise of new analytics technologies, becoming more data-driven is on the minds of most IT decision makers these days. In a recent report on the impact of big data on analytics, "More than half of the organizations polled identified analytics as among their top five IT priorities," says ...
In a research study conducted late last year by Enterprise Strategy Group, users were asked about their practices relative to data protection processes. Over 80 percent of respondents indicated virtual backup was a top 10 IT challenge, with 60 percent of respondents reporting that data protection for virtual servers was ...
ESG is pleased to kick off 2012 with a new video series titled Behind the Findings where we will discuss research highlights and conclusions as we publish our research reports. This is a new offering for ESG Research Subscription clients to view at your convenience, on-demand.
In this first edition of ...
It’s now February although you’d never know it from the balmy winter here in Boston. Aside from Valentine’s Day, February is significant because it is when security geeks from around the world get together in San Francisco for the RSA Conference.
The show doesn’t start until 2/27 but you can feel ...
Published on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 12:14 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
Optimizing Server, Application, and Storage Consolidation with Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure
Riverbed Technology provides a performance platform for enterprises implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery in a globally connected enterprise. Riverbed solutions are designed to enable a fluid, dynamic IT architecture by eliminating bottlenecks and ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
The high-end of the firewall market has really been dominated by two companies: Crossbeam Systems (with Check Point Software) and Juniper Networks. Over the past few years, these two firms won most of the high revenue/high margin enterprise and service provider deals.
Of course, others took notice and ...
Today, CommVault is holding a virtual event to announce some of its latest innovations for the Simpana 9.0 product. I had the opportunity to do some early hands-on testing of a few of the new capabilities during an ESG Lab Review -- including its new "OnePass" technology and its ability ...
CommVault Simpana software, a data management platform that delivers backup, archive, search, and analytics capabilities, can be a viable cornerstone of an organization’s information retention strategy. Simpana provides archiving capabilities that organizations may not believe they need now but, given current archive market trends, will be extremely useful to them ...
This ESG Lab Review documents hands-on testing of Simpana 9 software from CommVault, specifically its “OnePass” data change gathering and retention mechanisms as well as its integration with HP X9000 (IBRIX) scale-out NAS.
The Challenges
Companies of all sizes continue to struggle with the various aspects of data protection. A great deal ...
