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Tony Palmer, Senior Engineer and Analyst, ESG Lab
Tony Palmer is ESG Lab's Senior Engineer, providing independent hands-on validation and analysis of emerging storage hardware and software products.
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Tony Palmer, senior engineer and analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab, said Coraid's value is that it provides a storage system that is easy to manage at a low cost.
via Coraid EtherDrive array targets cloud storage.
Published on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 at 3:29 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Ginny Roth | Tony Palmer |
This ESG Lab report documents hands-on testing of EMC Unified Storage with a focus on major usability and efficiency upgrades, Unisphere integrated management, Enhanced VMware integration, FAST Cache, FAST Automated Storage Tiering, and Primary Data Compression.
Background
For many years, the total amount of storage users needed to support application and file ...
Authors: Ginny Roth | Tony Palmer |
Published on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 at 5:44 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Ginny Roth | Tony Palmer |
The ever-increasing volume of unstructured file data that organizations need to share, manage, and protect has become a real problem for IT managers—particularly those that need to provide online access to shared files for revenue-generating workflows and processes. This report explores how the Fujitsu Scalable File Server Solution, known in ...
Authors: Ginny Roth | Tony Palmer |
This report examines a promising new category of technology—Ethernet SAN—that may be poised to disrupt the economics of the storage industry. Coraid’s EtherDrive SAN storage family leverages scale-out design and raw Ethernet to deliver an impressive blend of performance, scalability, and simplicity at a price point that is a ...
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.
Background
ESG recently ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
A large number of organizations have deployed disk-to-disk backup technologies to improve the speed and reliability of their backup and disaster recovery operations. A growing number of these organizations look to data deduplication to enhance retention periods and reduce the cost of storage for backups and disaster recovery. This ESG ...
Published on Friday, June 18th, 2010 at 9:02 am | No Comments »
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
Driven by a mix of increased regulation, business expectations, and the sheer growth of data, digital archives are not only growing in capacity, but also in the number of individual objects that are being stored and managed. Nexsan’s Assureon is a CAS (Content Addressable Storage) system capable of protecting, retaining, ...
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
A growing number of organizations are using VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) technology to reduce the cost, complexity, and risks associated with desktop management while providing a high-quality, predictable, and productive computing environment. This report documents hands-on testing of an HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN in a VMware View environment—paying special attention ...
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 |
This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of the Cisco MDS 9148 8-Gbps Multilayer Fabric Switch with a focus on scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency.
The Challenges
Faced with exploding data growth and increasing demands thanks to server consolidation and virtualization as well as a need to better protect and manage shared information ...
