Data Center Consolidation
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 ...
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 |
In a great example of practicing what you preach, HP is launching another Data Center consolidation initiative. This time it will involve the 180 odd data centers that were acquired when HP bought EDS. HP had just finished a major initiative that consolidated 85 data centers down ...
This ESG Lab report explores how EMC VPLEX can be used to create a heterogeneous pool of storage resources that can be accessed and shared over distance. VPLEX-enabled VMotion over distance and the performance of SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server applications are examined as a mix of ...
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Click here for the ESG Research Report: 2010 IT Spending Intentions Survey.
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Click here for the ESG Research Report: 2010 IT Spending Intentions Survey.
Published on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 10:41 am | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
A SAN Blueprint from SANpulse Technologies reduces the cost and complexity of SAN discovery and analysis as it provides the insight needed to understand, optimize, and update SAN infrastructure. This ESG Lab Validation report presents highlights of recently completed hands-on testing of a SAN Blueprint, the technology used to create ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
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Click here for the full ESG Research Brief: Unified Storage Adoption Continues IT Efficiency Trend
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Click here for the full ESG Research Report 2009 Data Center Spending Intentions Survey
