Lab Reports
Published on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 at 3:29 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Ginny Roth | Tony Palmer |
This ESG Lab report documents hands-on testing of EMC Unified Storage with a focus on major usability and efficiency upgrades, Unisphere integrated management, Enhanced VMware integration, FAST Cache, FAST Automated Storage Tiering, and Primary Data Compression.
Background
For many years, the total amount of storage users needed to support application and file ...
Authors: Ginny Roth | Tony Palmer |
Published on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 at 5:44 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Ginny Roth | Tony Palmer |
The ever-increasing volume of unstructured file data that organizations need to share, manage, and protect has become a real problem for IT managers—particularly those that need to provide online access to shared files for revenue-generating workflows and processes. This report explores how the Fujitsu Scalable File Server Solution, known in ...
Authors: Ginny Roth | Tony Palmer |
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 ...
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of a NetApp Unified Storage Architecture deployed in a VMware virtual server environment with a goal of simplifying, protecting, and consolidating physical servers hosting Microsoft applications. The value of NetApp features and software (e.g., file serving, Virtual Storage Console (VSC) ...
Published on Friday, July 9th, 2010 at 7:03 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Mark Bowker |
Server virtualization remains a high priority for IT organizations of all sizes as they look to improve IT asset utilization, streamline operational efficiency, and enhance service level agreements with application owners. This report documents hands-on testing of Microsoft server virtualization technology with a focus on the enhanced flexibility, availability, and ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Mark Bowker |
Published on Sunday, June 27th, 2010 at 6:51 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
A growing number of organizations are using virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to reduce the cost, complexity and risks associated with PC desktop management. This report documents hands-on testing of an HP P4000 SAN in a Citrix XenDesktop environment—paying special attention to ease of management, performance, storage efficiency, and availability.
Background
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Authors: Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
This report presents the results of hands-on testing and a cost of ownership analysis of an HP StorageWorks- enabled solution for medium-size organizations. It examines the cost-effective synergy of an end-to end converged infrastructure powered by an HP StorageWorks P4500 for primary storage, D2D2503 for capacity-optimized disk-based backup, D2D4112 for ...
A large number of organizations have deployed disk-to-disk backup technologies to improve the speed and reliability of their backup and disaster recovery operations. A growing number of these organizations look to data deduplication to enhance retention periods and reduce the cost of storage for backups and disaster recovery. This ESG ...
Published on Friday, June 18th, 2010 at 9:02 am | No Comments »
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
Driven by a mix of increased regulation, business expectations, and the sheer growth of data, digital archives are not only growing in capacity, but also in the number of individual objects that are being stored and managed. Nexsan’s Assureon is a CAS (Content Addressable Storage) system capable of protecting, retaining, ...
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
A growing number of organizations are using VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) technology to reduce the cost, complexity, and risks associated with desktop management while providing a high-quality, predictable, and productive computing environment. This report documents hands-on testing of an HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN in a VMware View environment—paying special attention ...
