Data Center Strategy and Best Practices
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 ...
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 |
Riverbed recently announced a significant enhancement to its Riverbed Optimization System, or RiOS, to better address several of the emerging needs for WAN optimization. Ultimately, upgrades like this represent how WAN optimization vendors are evolving their solutions to support a wider range of technologies and environments. Specifically ...
Published on Friday, December 16th, 2011 at 3:18 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
New enterprise initiatives and applications are driving new requirements for WAN optimization technologies. Riverbed has responded to those needs by delivering enhancements to the seventh version of the Riverbed Optimization System. It now adds expanded support for video and VDI environments, UDP, and IPv6 , in addition to integrated network ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
As data growth continues unabated, organizations are finding it more difficult to effectively manage their environments. ESG’s annual spending survey reinforces that notion as respondents cited managing data growth as their number two IT priority, second only to increasing use of server virtualization. With regard to managing data growth, a ...
