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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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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 ...
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 |
For quite some time virtual desktops have been growing in popularity, first as a means to effectively deliver desktops for call centers, support desks, etc., and now it has become an increasingly popular strategy for dealing with an ever growing “bring your own device to work” problem. That is, how ...
Published on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 at 1:37 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
Cisco recently unveiled its next-generation Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) solutions, delivering a significant upgrade over its previous versions. The improvements address the demand for a WAN solution capable of scaling to deliver web-based software applications and rich media content across networks with improved performance. In order to realize market ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
The connected world means a fully networked world, which is great – unless there is a problem. And typically when there is a problem, the network gets blamed. How many times have you heard the network is down, the network is slow, lost my internet connection and so on? ...
Riverbed recently announced a significant enhancement to its Riverbed Optimization System, or RiOS, to better address several of the emerging needs for WAN optimization. Ultimately, upgrades like this represent how WAN optimization vendors are evolving their solutions to support a wider range of technologies and environments. Specifically ...
Published on Friday, December 16th, 2011 at 3:18 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
New enterprise initiatives and applications are driving new requirements for WAN optimization technologies. Riverbed has responded to those needs by delivering enhancements to the seventh version of the Riverbed Optimization System. It now adds expanded support for video and VDI environments, UDP, and IPv6 , in addition to integrated network ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
