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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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"There are a lot of different factors at play," said Bob Laliberte, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in Milford, Mass.
via Data center outsourcing dilemma: CIOs weigh in on owning vs. renting.
Taking a page out of the Fast Food restaurant play book, HP is hoping to create and deliver modular, scalable data centers. In an attempt to overcome the costly and time consuming process of custom designing a data center to fit a specific need at a specific point in time, HP is ...
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 ...
Published on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 6:12 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
"A few years ago, it would have been unheard of to deploy, for example, Exchange [Server] on SATA drives," said Brian Garrett, vice president of the Enterprise Strategy Group Lab in Milford, Mass.
via SAS and SATA, solid-state storage lower data center power consumption.
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
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 |
IT organizations are continually challenged to increase levels of service, improve efficiencies, and reduce costs. The storage domain provides a tremendous opportunity for each of those categories, and storage resource management (SRM) software has the potential to deliver tremendous benefits—but legacy solutions have only left users more frustrated. Next generation ...
This focus is crucial today, said Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Bob Laliberte, as data storage environments become increasingly more dynamic and "cloud-like."
via How to choose a storage resource management tool :: SearchStorage.com.au.
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 ...
Organizations have spent millions of dollars and years of effort to ensure the business can either continue operations or at the very least recover from a disaster in a timely manner. The majority of these efforts tend to be focused on implementing technology in multiple data centers across the ...
Published on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 9:27 am | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Tony Palmer |
Introduction
This report documents ESG Lab hands-on testing of HP-branded Emulex Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNAs) and explores how a converged infrastructure can enable users to realign traditional technology silos into adaptive pools that can be shared, optimized, and managed as a service.
Background
Organizations are in the process of transforming their data ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Tony Palmer |
