Market Reports
Virtualization turns physical devices into a set of resource pools that are independent of the physical asset they run on. This abstraction makes it easier to implement standardized measurement, monitoring, and management of resources. It also eliminates the economic and operational issues of infrastructure silos. All told, virtualization delivers compelling ...
It is a story often repeated because it is a challenge IT has been living with for a very long time. The amount of data businesses need to store is skyrocketing, which drives corresponding growth in overall data storage costs in the form of storage systems, floor space, power, ...
Introduction
For most organizations, backup tapes represent an insurance policy for a critical asset: information. And because no one wants to operate without some level of insurance, tape is usually one of the first things funded in the IT budget—with few questions. If someone did examine this line item, they would ...
Overview
Recent ESG research suggests that e-mail archiving is becoming a “must have” technology. All indicators point to software as a service (SaaS) solutions growing in popularity for companies of all sizes; a lack of skilled e-mail administrators and a variety of improved SaaS offerings are only two of the reasons ...
User-generated content, unstructured data, video surveillance, low-latency trade data, and life sciences are some of the fastest data growth types, but it seems no industry is safe from massive file data growth. Across the board, file formats are richer and file sizes are growing exponentially. This massive data growth is ...
Published on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 3:26 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Steve Duplessie | Steve O'Donnell |
Through qualitative and observational research, ESG has uncovered a consistent problem within IT that has led to costly inefficiencies, protectionist behavior patterns, poor communications, lack of understanding, and increased business risk. Fortunately, fixing these issues has proven to be relatively easy, once the problems are acknowledged.
IT does not need expensive ...
Authors: Steve Duplessie | Steve O'Donnell |
Since its inception in the 1960s, commercial computing has gone through three distinctive periods. The Transactional Computing Era led to the Distributed Computing Era, which continued until the 1990s. The newest era, the Internet Computing Era, will dominate the next 50 years or more. Commercial computing capabilities and the people ...
Published on Monday, May 4th, 2009 at 1:02 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Babineau | Lauren Whitehouse |
IT executives barely have time to keep track of the technology in their own environments; finding the hours in the day to stay abreast of all the new technology solutions in the marketplace is next to impossible. At some point, however, those in the data center corner office are bound ...
Authors: Brian Babineau | Lauren Whitehouse |
Solid state storage seems to be going from 'zero to hero' almost overnight. Those steadfast providers that have been promoting some variant of the technology for years may be sighing as everyone else eventually 'finds religion,' but they are no doubt also cheering at the prospect of ...
Deduplication has been more popularly deployed in target storage hardware, including virtual tape libraries (VTLs) and storage appliances; however, recent introductions by backup vendors have shifted the spotlight. How do hardware and software approaches differ? What should be considered when evaluating solutions?
Introduction
Deduplication dramatically improves the value proposition of disk-based data ...
