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Brian Garrett, Vice President, ESG Lab
Brian Garrett is the Vice President of ESG Lab, providing independent hands on validation and analysis of emerging technologies in the server, storage, data management and information security industries.
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Brian Garrett, vice president, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab, was part of an ESG team that tested EMC's new unified storage capabilities, and was also impressed by the new Unisphere.
via EMC ships primary data reduction, FAST for solid-state drives (SSDs), unified management.
Brian Garrett, vice-president covering server, storage, data management and security at the Enterprise Strategy Group’s ESG Lab, said the FCoE integration aims to provide a path forward for IT shops that have already placed a “big bet” on fibre channel storage.
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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 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 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.
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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 ...
Permabit’s field-proven data deduplication engine is now available as a software library and software development kit (SDK) that provides unified data deduplication advisory services. This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of the Permabit Albireo SDK with a focus on ease of integration into existing storage ...
Networked storage is being deployed in conjunction with server virtualization by a growing number of organizations interested in consolidation, reduced costs, and improved flexibility and availability of mission-critical applications including databases and e-mail. ESG research indicates that IT managers looking to reap the benefits of server and storage consolidation are ...
Networked storage is being deployed in conjunction with server virtualization by a growing number of organizations interested in consolidation, reduced costs, and improved flexibility and availability of mission-critical applications, including databases and e-mail. ESG research indicates that IT managers looking to reap the benefits of server and storage consolidation are ...
