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Bill Lundell, Senior Research Analyst
Bill is responsible for helping to field ESG's many qualitative and quantitative market research projects,and is a key part of the data analysis and content creation processes associated with each engagement. By combining an intimate knowledge of ESG's coverage areas with research insight, Bill is able to more effectively support the analyst team with real-world data pertaining to key IT trends.
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Published on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 3:30 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight | Mark Peters | Terri McClure |
More than one-half (54%) of midmarket and enterprise organizations surveyed will increase their spending on storage hardware in 2010. Spending will vary by company size, vertical industry, and organizational behavior. Using data from ESG’s 2010 IT Spending Intention Survey, this brief analyzes storage spending at both a general and ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight | Mark Peters | Terri McClure |
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 Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 3:47 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Jon Oltsik | Mark Bowker |
For the past few years, organizations large and small eschewed Windows Vista and stuck with old reliable XP. Those days are coming to an end: ESG Research indicates massive migration plans to Windows 7 over the next two years. Large organizations should proceed with their eyes open so ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Jon Oltsik | Mark Bowker |
Published on Monday, January 18th, 2010 at 3:55 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight |
New ESG survey data finds that the majority of private- and public-sector organizations will increase IT spending—albeit modestly—in 2010. ESG’s Vertical Opportunity Index Score (VOIS) rankings reveal that industries such as Health Care, Federal Government, and Financial represent the most promising IT market opportunities in 2010. Transportation, Manufacturing, and State ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight |
Published on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 1:44 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Mark Peters |
The percentage of businesses employing iSCSI storage technology has now reached 28%, marking the technology’s transition from intriguing ingénue to mainstream storage solution. With increased adoption expected by ESG’s survey respondents and with current and planned use cases spanning a wider range of applications, environments, and business types, iSCSI storage ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Mark Peters |
Published on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 at 2:22 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Mark Bowker |
Server virtualization is consistently listed among the top initiatives with significant influence on IT infrastructure purchase decisions, especially networked storage offerings like iSCSI technology. In fact, in a study of current iSCSI users, ESG found that more than one-third of respondents identified server virtualization support as the initial driver behind ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Mark Bowker |
Published on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 at 1:52 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | John McKnight |
ESG research indicates that iSCSI storage has experienced a significant increase in general market acceptance since 2006 and one of the key use-cases for the technology is in remote and branch office (ROBO) locations. This is especially true of enterprise organizations looking to support an increasing number of key applications ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | John McKnight |
Published on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 1:23 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Lauren Whitehouse |
Not only are IT organizations supporting more endpoints (desktops, laptops, and other client access devices) than ever, but users are storing more information and files on these devices. Since PC backup is an area of ambiguity in many organizations, there is a clear lack of a consistent data protection strategy ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Lauren Whitehouse |
Published on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 3:21 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Mark Bowker |
Driven by PC support, maintenance, and security burdens, desktop virtualization is poised to become the next must-have technology for businesses looking to optimize and simplify their end-user computing infrastructures. Simultaneously, hosted online (or “cloud-based”) IT services are becoming increasingly popular methods of offloading crucial IT tasks to specialized service providers. ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | John McKnight | Mark Bowker |
Published on Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 8:46 am | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | John McKnight |
Storage area networks (SAN) provide a host of benefits to IT environments that range from increased capacity utilization to superior performance and availability. While organizations have adopted the technology to exploit these advantages, ESG’s research found that deployments are by no means pervasive due mainly to the substantial investment required ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | John McKnight |
