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Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst
Lauren is a senior analyst covering data protection technologies, including backup and replication software and services, disk-based backup targets, deduplication and backup reporting.
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“Virtualization can provide a much more cost-effective way to create redundancy,” said Lauren Whitehouse, a senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.
But there is a lot more to using virtualization in this way than meets the eye. Data management and system design challenges, financial constraints, and governmentwide policies about the ...
Symantec’s initial focus with its appliance strategy was to deliver scalable deduplication via its NetBackup 5000 Series. In addition, the company introduced an all-in-one NetBackup 5200 appliance based on NetBackup 7. Symantec has extended the NetBackup 5200 Series appliance with the NetBackup 5220, expanding storage capacity and connectivity options.
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Consolidation has ...
“Atempo is a very rich data center grade backup, recovery and archiving solution,” said Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
However, she said that while Atempo has good technology, it faced a tougher road on its own because the company faced bigger companies with deeper pockets in the ...
The biggest announcement from Symantec’s Storage Availability & Management Group in five years, this release touches all of the major storage and availability products in Symantec’s portfolio. This is less about products and more about customers and how they think about core competencies: running the business at hand. As IT ...
Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Lauren Whitehouse agrees that having a common dedupe algorithm is an advantage for HP.
She said Symantec has the same dedupe algorithm with its NetBackup and Backup Exec software and appliances running those apps, “but HP is gunning for EMC because Data Domain is so strong. ...
Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), likes the HP approach. “First, they have a modular approach to deduplication … one algorithm applied in backup hardware and software (and, in the future, it can be applied to primary storage systems). This is not unlike Symantec’s current strategy. The beauty ...
Recoverability of data, validating backup success and response time for troubleshooting backup failures were named by at least one-third of respondents in a recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey as the top challenges for protecting an organization’s virtual server environment.
via Survey looks into backup and recovery challenges of virtual servers.
ESG senior analyst Lauren Whitehouse says that Vision fits a lot of new requirements for monitoring data protection in virtualized environments. “Virtualization adds a layer of complexity, since the platform is abstracting physical resources. Bocada can answer questions like “is my backup policy compliant” where that information may be at ...
The east coast of United States took another beating over the weekend, with record-breaking October snowfall which caused widespread power outages. Sometimes it takes “disasters” like this to instigate action for companies without an IT continuity plan. In what would seem like a perfectly timed announcement, Axcient, a backup/recovery (and ...
“Cloud-based DR moves the discussion from data center space and hardware to one about cloud capacity planning,” noted Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in Milford, Massachusetts.
via Advantages of Disaster Recovery as a Service - Data Center Knowledge.
