IT Operations
Published on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 4:39 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight | Kristine Kao |
In order to assess IT spending priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 614 senior IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America, Western Europe, and Asia-Pacific. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with their organizations’ ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight | Kristine Kao |
From 1965 to yesterday, the definition of IT has really been “to automate the knowledge worker tasks of days gone by.” It’s never really been “to enable the intellectual power of all those who have come before, and all those who are about to join us.”
That’s about ...
For a number of years ESG has been conducting an annual IT spending survey to better understand users’ buying intentions for the coming year. The ESG research team is busy putting the final touches on the 2012 IT Spending Intentions Survey, which should be ready at the end of ...
ESG Lab recently completed testing of the EMC ProSphere.
Testing was designed to demonstrate how EMC ProSphere intuitively provides end-to-end resource management for storage environments. Also of interest were ease of use and implementation as well as agent-less host, SAN, and array data collection.
Please click here to read the full report.
Published on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 3:13 pm | 2 Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Vinny Choinski |
End-to-End Cloud Storage Resource Management
This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of the EMC ProSphere storage resource management solution. Testing explored how ProSphere can help simplify management, identify problem areas, and ensure application performance in otherwise complex storage environments. The report focuses on the easy deployment, ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Vinny Choinski |
For quite some time virtual desktops have been growing in popularity, first as a means to effectively deliver desktops for call centers, support desks, etc., and now it has become an increasingly popular strategy for dealing with an ever growing “bring your own device to work” problem. That is, how ...
Anyone with an IT career is always keeping a watchful eye on the hottest technology and looking for ways to enroll in training and advance their career. I did this successfully years ago with Microsoft certification and have witnessed many IT professionals build a stable career by growing their knowledge ...
Published on Thursday, December 29th, 2011 at 1:08 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jon Oltsik | Perry Laberis |
Recent ESG research indicates that the remote worker population will grow significantly over the next three years. Why? Organizations see ROI on remote worker programs in terms of cost reduction, higher employee morale, and improved productivity. While these are attractive benefits, ESG believes that today’s laissez-faire remote worker programs have ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jon Oltsik | Perry Laberis |
Published on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 at 1:37 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
Cisco recently unveiled its next-generation Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) solutions, delivering a significant upgrade over its previous versions. The improvements address the demand for a WAN solution capable of scaling to deliver web-based software applications and rich media content across networks with improved performance. In order to realize market ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
Steve Duplessie, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, said that reducing a warranty was highly unusual and that he could not think of another such instance. He suggested that it was related to the Thailand floods.
“They don’t have components to fix things, so they can’t afford to fix things. ...
