IT Operations
"There are a lot of different factors at play," said Bob Laliberte, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in Milford, Mass.
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ESG research shows that desktop virtualization is quickly running up the priority list. While many desktop virtualization initiatives are the result of the success of server virtualization, the majority of deployments we see are led by a larger company-wide initiative to incorporate desktop virtualization into an overall desktop strategy. The ...
This report examines a promising new category of technology—Ethernet SAN—that may be poised to disrupt the economics of the storage industry. Coraid’s EtherDrive SAN storage family leverages scale-out design and raw Ethernet to deliver an impressive blend of performance, scalability, and simplicity at a price point that is a ...
Taking a page out of the Fast Food restaurant play book, HP is hoping to create and deliver modular, scalable data centers. In an attempt to overcome the costly and time consuming process of custom designing a data center to fit a specific need at a specific point in time, HP is ...
Business executives want to know their company has a cloud strategy and they want the assurance that IT is executing against its goals and objectives. This, in turn, is putting added pressure to IT operations, application owners, and developers. Will the cloud deliver on its promises? Will businesses take the ...
Data center consolidation continues to be a hot topic for IT in both the private and public sectors. As I noted previously, HP is going to consolidate its acquired EDS data centers after just finishing a major effort to reduce its own data centers from more than 80 down to ...
As scale-up technologies makes way for scale-out, Fibre Channel makes way for Ethernet, and block structured data makes way for file, edge-to-core network traffic is rapidly becoming edge-to-edge. As such, network architectures are also adopting a scale-out approach, moving network intelligence to the edge.
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Computer hardware used to be an expensive ...
Published on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 6:12 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
"A few years ago, it would have been unheard of to deploy, for example, Exchange [Server] on SATA drives," said Brian Garrett, vice president of the Enterprise Strategy Group Lab in Milford, Mass.
via SAS and SATA, solid-state storage lower data center power consumption.
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
ESG Research indicates widespread IT spending on data center transformation, IT consolidation, and server virtualization. This will help reduce costs and streamline operations, right? Yes, in theory, but many IT consolidation projects suffer through planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity—especially for remote ...
Published on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 at 3:19 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight |
In order to assess data center facility consolidation and construction priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 515 North American and Western European senior IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight |
