Reports
This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of consolidated management and automated data protection services across multiple sites and diverse storage technologies using Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage.
The Challenges
Relentless information growth is necessitating greater investments in IT infrastructure. Data protection processes, such as backup, compound capacity growth issues since multiple copies of ...
This ESG Lab Review documents ESG Lab hands-on testing of Venyu’s AmeriVault Online Backup and virtual server recovery services. The value of hands-free remote backup and virtual server recovery at a Tier IV Venyu data center located 1,500 miles away is highlighted.
The Challenges
Businesses of all sizes, from small to ...
Published on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at 2:22 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight |
In order to assess IT data center priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 515 North American and Western European senior IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with their organization’s 2009 ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight |
Published on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 9:49 am | 1 Comment »
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
The current popularity of deduplication should not blind users to the fact that it is only a contributory factor to overall storage efficiency; in this respect, best practices demand that users understand different ‘dedupe’ tools and integrate them into their storage efficiency efforts. Nexsan’s combination of deduplication with its ‘Highly ...
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
This ESG Lab report presents the results of a mixed application performance benchmark which was designed to assess the real-world performance capabilities of a SAN attached IBM System Storage DS5020 Express/DS3950 Express storage, IBM BladeCenter HS22 servers and VMware vSphere software deployed in a highly virtualized, consolidated data center.
Introduction
Networked storage ...
User-generated content, unstructured data, video surveillance, low-latency trade data, and life sciences are some of the fastest data growth types, but it seems no industry is safe from massive file data growth. Across the board, file formats are richer and file sizes are growing exponentially. This massive data growth is ...
Published on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 11:08 am | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Lauren Whitehouse | Tony Palmer |
Now, more than ever, IT is being called on to drive efficiencies, manage risk, and maintain application and data availability. Exponential data growth, compliance requirements, and service level agreements are only a few of the challenges facing organizations with data centers and remote offices requiring data protection. Compounding such an ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Lauren Whitehouse | Tony Palmer |
Published on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 10:41 am | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
A SAN Blueprint from SANpulse Technologies reduces the cost and complexity of SAN discovery and analysis as it provides the insight needed to understand, optimize, and update SAN infrastructure. This ESG Lab Validation report presents highlights of recently completed hands-on testing of a SAN Blueprint, the technology used to create ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of 3PAR Autonomic Groups in a clustered VMware environment—paying special attention to ease of provisioning and management.
The Challenges
The utility computing, or virtual data center, model has been gaining popularity based on its promise to reduce the inefficiencies of mainframe and client-server data center ...
Published on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 3:19 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Mark Bowker |
Server virtualization remains a high priority for IT organizations of all sizes as businesses 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 Hyper-V—paying special attention to ease of deployment, management simplicity, scalability, and performance.
Introduction
Server ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Mark Bowker |
