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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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This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of the Pivot3 vSTAC VDI appliance, and looks at how Pivot3 can streamline and simplify the deployment, management and scale-out of VMware View 5 VDI implementations.
Desktop Virtualization Challenges
The use of server virtualization to consolidate server infrastructure, reduce data center floor space, and maximize ...
Published on Monday, February 13th, 2012 at 9:00 am | No Comments »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Tony Palmer |
Extremely High Performance and Low Latency, Designed for Highly Virtualized Environments
This report documents ESG Lab’s hands-on testing of the Emulex LightPulse 16G Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapter (HBA), and explores the HBA’s ability to improve virtualization efficiency and increase performance in an 8Gb or 16Gb environment. The report also ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Tony Palmer |
Published on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 12:14 pm | 2 Comments »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
Optimizing Server, Application, and Storage Consolidation with Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure
Riverbed Technology provides a performance platform for enterprises implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery in a globally connected enterprise. Riverbed solutions are designed to enable a fluid, dynamic IT architecture by eliminating bottlenecks and ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
Published on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 9:35 am | No Comments »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
Effectively Virtualizing Tier-1 Application Workloads
This report presents the results of ESG Lab testing of the performance and scalability of the HP ProLiant DL980 server powered by Intel Xeon processors, running SAP with VMware vSphere 5. Testing was conducted with a virtualized, tier-1 SAP application workload running on a massively scalable ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
In a recent ESG Brief: QLogic iSR Accelerates Data Migrations, ESG Analyst Bob Laliberte nails the data migration challenges virtualization brings to the data center, and the value QLogic offers with their solution…
ESG Lab tested the iSR 6200 series and documents the results in a just-published Lab Validation report that ...
Published on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 at 9:54 am | No Comments »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Tony Palmer |
ESG Lab recently completed testing of the QLogic Intelligent Storage Router.
The report explores hands-on testing and validation of the QLogic 6200 series of Intelligent Storage Router (iSR), focusing on multi-protocol data migration and the simplicity, availability, performance, and cost-efficiency the QLogic iSR series brings to a heterogeneous storage environment.
The QLogic ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Tony Palmer |
Published on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 at 9:37 am | 2 Comments »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Tony Palmer |
Simple, Robust, Multi-protocol Data Migration and Storage Routing
This ESG Lab Validation report explores hands-on testing and validation of the QLogic 6200 series of Intelligent Storage Router (iSR), focusing on multi-protocol data migration and the simplicity, availability, performance, and cost-efficiency the QLogic iSR series brings to a heterogeneous storage environment.
Background
Recently, ESG ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Tony Palmer |
Published on Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 11:04 am | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Tony Palmer |
ESG Lab recently completed testing of NetApp OnCommand Insight.
The mantra “IT needs to be more tightly aligned to the business” has become more than just a lofty goal and is now a business mandate. Organizations are taking proactive steps to ensure this becomes reality, with more emphasis ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Tony Palmer |
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NetApp OnCommand Insight: Intelligent Management for Virtualized and Cloud Environments
Published on Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 10:57 am | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Tony Palmer |
ESG Lab performed hands-on evaluation and testing of NetApp OnCommand Insight management software. The test environment was built to reflect a heterogeneous server and storage infrastructure to demonstrate the ability to manage across domains and provide end-to-end visibility from the applications down into the storage systems in both physical and ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Tony Palmer |
The needs of today’s virtualized server environments present new and increasingly difficult challenges to traditional network infrastructure. With bandwidth-intensive virtualization options like vMotion combined with increased levels of automation, IT administrators have a difficult time providing the appropriate performance and service levels at the moment they are required. This ESG ...
