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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 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 ...
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 |
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 |
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 ...
Lab Reports:
Quantum DXi-Series and Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage – Centrally Managed Edge-to-Core Data Protection
Published on Monday, October 12th, 2009 at 3:48 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Lauren Whitehouse | Tony Palmer |
In this report, ESG Lab examines DXi-Series appliances working in concert with the Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage interface to provide consolidated management and automated data protection services across multiple sites and multiple storage technologies. Areas of focus include Quantum’s new remote-office focused DXi2500-D appliances; the DXi7500 Enterprise disk backup platform; Quantum ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Lauren Whitehouse | Tony Palmer |
Published on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 2:43 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
The Fujitsu ETERNUS4000 storage system is a highly scalable midrange storage platform which employs enterprise-class attributes to improve data availability, security, and operational efficiency. This ESG Lab Report documents the results of hands-on testing of the ETERNUS4000 with a focus on performance and capacity scalability, availability, data mobility, power efficiency, ...
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
Published on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
The Fujitsu ETERNUS8000 storage system is an extremely scalable enterprise-class storage platform that combines massive scalability (up to 2.7 petabytes) with data availability, security, and operational efficiency. This ESG Lab Report documents the results of hands-on testing of the ETERNUS8000 with a focus on performance and capacity scalability, availability, data ...
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
Lab Reports:
HP LeftHand P4000 SAN – Optimizing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Citrix XenDesktop
Published on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 at 1:06 pm | 1 Comment »
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 LeftHand P4000 SAN in a Citrix XenDesktop environment—paying special attention to ease of management, performance, ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
Published on Monday, June 15th, 2009 at 3:40 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
Introduction
This ESG Lab Report analyzes the operational efficiency (scalability, reliability, availability, and performance) of the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family in real-world, mission-critical environments. Hitachi’s excellent Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program - Storage (ESRP) and Storage Performance Council SPC-1 benchmark results were audited and analyzed to validate the tangible ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
Published on Monday, May 18th, 2009 at 12:48 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
A growing number of organizations are deploying networked storage in conjunction with server virtualization to consolidate, reduce costs, and improve the flexibility and availability of mission-critical applications. IT managers choosing networked storage for virtualized environments are looking for easy and cost effective disaster recovery without sacrificing performance. This ESG Lab ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
