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Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst
Bob is an ESG senior analyst focusing on data center infrastructure management and automation software, data center infrastructure and technologies, and professional services.
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As organizations continue to consolidate data centers and increase their use of virtual server environments, data center networks are rapidly growing in size and complexity. Plus, due to increasing throughput from greater Virtual Machine (VM) densities on physical servers, organizations are also converting to 10Gb Ethernet networks while consumerization of ...
Published on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 1:41 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Jon Oltsik |
Intelligent Management Aggregation Networks (iMAN) from vendors like Anue, Gigamon, NetOptics, and VSS Monitoring remain niche products for large enterprises and service providers with big complex networks. ESG Research forecasts a market transition in progress however. As enterprise organizations embrace data center consolidation, server virtualization, web applications, consumer devices, and ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Jon Oltsik |
In a recent ESG survey about remote offices and branch offices (ROBOs), we asked respondents “To the best of your knowledge, which of the following application types consume the greatest amount of available WAN bandwidth to/from ROBO locations over the course of a typical business day?”
The list of top offenders ...
“In an effort to simplify management, increase resource utilisation and reduce costs, organisations have been actively consolidating and virtualising IT environments into centralised data centres,” said Bob Laliberte, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “While these consolidation efforts provide numerous benefits, it is imperative that organisations ensure that these consolidated ...
Earlier today, Nicira publicly emerged as a company from stealth mode with more than just an idea, but with a product and several customers actually using it. While many find that approach old school, I like the fact that they are more than just PowerPoint slides and buzzword bingo press ...
"There are still a lot of enterprises that have a lot of infrastructure at their remote sites," said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Bob Laliberte. That creates IT headaches because of the need to back up data at those sites, which raises security issues, and to devote IT staff time to ...
Published on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 9:25 am | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | Jon Oltsik |
The primary objective of this ESG research study was to survey networking professionals working at enterprise organizations (i.e., 1,000 employees or more) in order to better understand the changes taking place in their data centers, how these changes were impacting their network infrastructure and operations, how they were addressing data ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | Jon Oltsik |
As organizations continue to consolidate data centers and increase their use of server virtualization technology, IT departments are forced to respond by building out massively scalable data center network environments. However, are data center networks evolving fast enough to survive (in current form) in a rapidly changing world? Jon ...
Published on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 10:39 am | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Jon Oltsik |
Enterprise data center networks are rapidly reaching a breaking point. Why? Data center network scale and complexity is testing the limits of legacy networking equipment and IT operations. ESG calls this phenomenon data center networking discontinuity. While networking vendors are desperately adding new features to their equipment, a radically new ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Jon Oltsik |
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 |
