An Illuminating Resource for IT Professionals

ESG is an integrated, full-service IT analyst and business strategy firm, world-renowned for forward-looking market intelligence, analysis, and consulting services that deliver measurable results.

Our analysts and consultants are hands-on, tactical practitioners dedicated to supporting IT professionals. We roll-up our sleeves, assess the situation, execute strategy, and help solve problems.

Why ESG?

To Get to the Bigger Truth: Our experts assist organizations in getting to the bigger truth. We don’t just dispense opinions; we provide meaning. You’ll deepen your understanding of technology trends and market dynamics—and you’ll gain support to take action.

Clients value us for the results we help them achieve. They also appreciate us for our approachability and our eagerness to dig into IT issues and get our hands dirty. Our firm’s penchant for speaking candidly has long been a hallmark.

To Gain a 360° Perspective: ESG is different. We occupy a unique place at the center of the IT ecosystem, participating actively with technology vendors, IT users, channel partners, the media, and the financial community.

From our vantage point, we construct a comprehensive, detailed, nuanced view of technologies, industries, and markets. We apply this unmatched 360° market perspective—along with solid research, operational best practices, and a holistic strategy lifecycle approach—to all of our thinking.  As a result, the guidance you get is meaningful, specific, and actionable.

To Take Advantage of Our Team’s Full Spectrum of Expertise: We know block and file storage, networking, data protection, security, data center infrastructure management, information management, e-discovery, archiving, virtualization, and more. Our team immerses itself in these technology areas every day. We examine all the loopholes, frustrations, and questions that IT professionals face. Under one roof, we have the subject-matter understanding and the resources to offer you an achievable, end-to-end solution.

Advisory Services

• Technology Infrastructure Assessments
• Market Landscape Reports
• Technology Strategy Services
• RFP/Vendor Selection Services
• Cost Justification Services
• Product Evaluation Services (ESG Lab)
• Best-Practice Comparisons

Areas of Expertise

• Storage: Vendors tout a wide assortment of storage options, but all of them fall into just a few major infrastructure implementation categories. We can help you determine what storage-platform choice (or choices) would best serve your distinctive IT environment: internal storage in a server, traditional scale-up subsystems, or perhaps a mixture of some of the many function-rich standalone appliances and scale-out arrays available today.

• Networking: Data center networking is going through a profound transition. Old, static, inflexible physical networks can’t keep up with new requirements for rapid provisioning, server virtualization, mobility, low-latency performance, and the need for truly massive scalability.

• Data Protection: Perhaps your IT organization must evolve its data protection infrastructure and processes to keep pace with changes in your data centers, at your remote/branch offices, or with your end-users’ endpoint devices. Relentless data growth, virtualization deployments, cloud strategies, consolidation initiatives, and more aggressive service level agreements are some of the trends affecting data protection efforts today.

• Security: Your IT infrastructure is increasingly complex and mobile, but you still need to secure it. In the past few years, large organizations have added service-oriented architectures, server virtualization efforts, and mobile device administration to their portfolio of IT-management tasks. Some are adding IPv6 architectures, cloud computing initiatives, and pervasive data analytics to the task-pile, too. CISOs need to understand the threats and vulnerabilities these new technologies may produce, and what types of layered security defenses can address them.

• Data Center Infrastructure: Physical data center moves and efficiency upgrades can be disruptive events. Doing it alone is a job for the incredibly well resourced and skilled (or the foolhardy). The “anywhere, anytime, tundra-cooled, super-efficient” data center will continue to evolve, and ESG will continue to stay on top of that evolution.

• Information Management: For years, enterprises have searched for ways to use their information assets to increase their competitive advantage. However, as data sets grow, become more varied, and require increasingly complex infrastructures to maintain, the tolerance for lengthy application development and data analytics lifecycles is diminishing.

• e-Discovery: Approaches that encourage efficiency and accountability in document review emerge frequently. E-discovery is a strategic investment—especially for businesses that engage in litigation or need to achieve regulatory compliance. Without oversight, e-Discovery can become an unmanageable cost. The solution is to treat it as the business process it is, optimize its efficiency, and reduce the time and costs involved without increasing risks or exposure.

• Virtualization: Today, we’re virtualizing everything—servers, storage, networks—we are even removing the physical limitations of human location to deliver services virtually. Who knew the concept would have such far-reaching effects on everything in IT?

Take Advantage of Our Services

Use our contact form, or write directly to:

• ESG Practice Manager Aaron Dufoe: Aaron.Dufoe@esg-global.com
• ESG Account Manager Nicholas Stebbins: Nicholas.Stebbins@esg-global.com