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Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst
Bob is an ESG senior analyst focusing on data center infrastructure management and automation software, data center infrastructure and technologies, and professional services.
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Analyst Bob Laliberte of Enterprise Strategy Group said he thinks that, realistically, the two companies cannot go on working together.
via What Customers Can Expect from Cisco, HP Breakup - IT Infrastructure from eWeek.
SunGard, though most commonly recognized as a leader in disaster recovery planning and services, also boasts a highly skilled consulting services organization. Its storage services group has developed a five step program that can help reduce storage OPEX and CAPEX and drive tighter alignment with the business. Anyone trying ...
"If I look five years out, there's still going to be Fibre Channel in data centers. People have millions and millions of dollars invested in that infrastructure," said Bob Laliberte, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Fibre Channel switch port shipments expected to spike after 2009 drop, then decline ...
QLogic has expanded its OEM HP relationship to include stackable FC switches that are fully integrated with HP Simple SAN Connection Manager (SSCM). Combined with HP Servers and Storage, HP can now offer highly available, rapidly scalable end-to-end 8 Gb FC SAN solutions to support physical or virtualized server environments. ...
QLogic has expanded its OEM relationship with HP to include stackable FC switches that are fully integrated with HP Simple SAN Connection Manager. Combine that with HP servers and storage, and HP can now offer highly available, rapidly scalable, end-to-end 8 Gb FC SAN solutions to support physical or virtualized ...
Staples announced the launch of a new business-to-business division focused on supplying services to organizations of all sizes--from small and medium businesses up to the enterprise. For the most part, these services are focused on the small and medium business problems, although in some areas (like printer fleet management) they ...
Bob Laliberte, an analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass., said Staples' printer services are already reaching into large enterprises, while many of its other services are aimed at SMBs, including customers with whom it already has supply contracts.
via Staples seeks bigger role in IT services.
QLogic is announcing a new FCoE win with IBM BladeCenter, only this time it is not for a Converged Network Adaptor (CNA). IBM will leverage QLogic’s FCoE switching technology to deliver the first internal, fully integrated FCoE switching module for its BladeCenter chassis.
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QLogic has been tackling the FCoE market aggressively ...
"This is one area where they may have had a gap in their portfolio before," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Bob Laliberte said.
via Riverbed Steelhead 7050 uses solid-state drives to boost WAN performance.
SolarWinds, an application and network management software company, announced the acquisition of certain assets of Texas based Tek-Tools, a leading independent provider of storage, virtualization, and backup management software for $42 million in cash and stock.
This move is the latest in a long series of acquisitions of SRM ...
