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ESG Applauds New CX4 In Analyst Report, CLARiiON Improves Again

Analyst Mark Peters from ESG says it's hard to find much missing in the EMC CLARiiON CX4. Read why major changes, such as the addition of standard mixed-protocol support, separation of the CPU and I/O complex, and a move up to 64-bit processing make the CX4 an impressive, next-generation product,...

Tags: Analyst Report, EMC Clariion, EMC Corp., ESG, Storage, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2008-08-01

The Growing Need for Endpoint Risk and Operations Management (EROM)

The irony with EROM is that deployment may be limited by IT culture rather than technology restrictions. IT operations, security, and desktop support tend to act as independent groups with their own budgets and methodologies. Since no one "Owns" EROM or has an EROM budget, this could preclude implementation. ESG...

Tags: Information Technology, Enterprise Strategy Group, EROM, ESG, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-07-01

Differentiating Hardware-And Software-Based Data De-Duplication

Data growth, the need to protect data and the desire to save money will not change any time soon. All of these issues are increasing, placing tremendous demands on IT organizations. D2D backup solutions are taking hold and those that leverage data de-duplication are delivering tangible benefits. IT organizations considering...

Tags: Software, Use Case, De-duplication, Hardware, Enterprise Strategy Group, ESG, Benefits, Human Resources

White papers 2008-02-01

Power, Cooling, Space Efficient Storage

Approximately a year ago the Director of IT for a company that has approximately 80,000 employees told ESG that his biggest issue was power, cooling and floor space. It conducted a series of interviews with different end users and depending on who one spoke to the answers was extreme. ESG...

Tags: Issue, Enterprise Strategy Group, ESG, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-07-01

HP Disaster Proof Solutions: Ensuring Application Availability

HP built a highly available, disaster tolerant multi-data center environment to test and demonstrate its availability and recoverability solutions. They then created a disaster that rendered the primary site immediately useless in order to show the effectiveness of the HP solution. This ESG paper provides views of the...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., ESG, It Services

White papers 2007-06-01

HP's Disaster Proof Solutions: Ensuring Application Availability

HP built a highly available, disaster tolerant multi-data center environment to test and demonstrate its availability and recoverability solutions. Rather than just simulate one, HP created an actual disaster that rendered the primary site immediately useless in order to show the effectiveness of the HP solutions at failing over to...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Solutions Inc., Enterprise Strategy Group, ESG

White papers 2007-06-01

Intelligent Data Archiving

ESG has found that many companies are currently implementing a configuration of intelligent tiers in their storage environments. These intelligent tiers consist of various storage systems and disk-types with different cost, performance, and protection levels. Software tools are then used to move data between these different tiers based on frequency...

Tags: Performance, Archiving, Enterprise Strategy Group, ESG, Software Tool, Storage, Performance Management, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-02-01

Recovery-Focused Data Protection: Research Shows Your Future Depends on It

The key is to determine what this range is for the organization's data and then match data protection resources accordingly. ESG refers to this type of data protection infrastructure as a data protection continuum, or ecosystem. Build this type of environment and one will be positioned to meet - or...

Tags: Data Protection, Recovery, ESG, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management

White papers 2007-01-01

ESG Report: Thin Provisioning

ESG believes that Thin Provisioning is one of the most important yet misunderstood advancements within data storage. This report defines and discusses Thin Provisioning, its economic impact and how it works. Thin Provisioning minimizes the cumbersome task of storage provisioning while improving capacity utilization. The economic impact...

Tags: Provisioning, Storage System, 3PARData Inc., ESG, Thin Provisioning, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-04-01

File System Archiving

ESG has found that many companies are currently implementing a configuration of intelligent tiers in their storage environments. These intelligent tiers consist of various storage systems and disk-types with different cost, performance, and protection levels. Software tools are then used to move data between these different tiers based on frequency...

Tags: Performance, File System, Enterprise Strategy Group, Tiered Storage, File System Archiving, ESG, Software Tool, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-02-01

Additional Resources

Whitepaper:  EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG Lab

This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage DAS, Fibre Channel storage area network FC SAN, and multi-protocol solutions (defined as systems that provide FC, iSCSI, and NAS connectivity). After testing EqualLogic storage in the lab using...

Tags: EqualLogic, Analysis, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware

White papers 2009-11-04

Dell EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG

Organizations of all sizes are struggling to meet the conflicting challenges associated with macro-level global financial uncertainty and micro-level information storage growth and complexity. A growing number of IT managers are turning to virtualization and consolidation technologies to meet these challenges. With a focus on scalability, automated management using rich...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, Analysis, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-09-01

The "Outside-In" Confidential Data Security Mode

Confidential data resides everywhere—from locked-down data centers to mobile devices—and is increasingly accessed by a wide range of constituents—from employees to contractors and business partners. How can CIOs and CISOs possibly secure confidential data when it is in a constant state of motion? The ESG "Outside-In" data security model seeks...

Tags: Data Security, Security

Webcasts 2009-08-13

Increasing Storage Efficiency and Reducing Costs in the Data Center Through Effective Capacity Management

Despite a faltering global economy and flat or reduced IT budgets, data growth continues unabated. Such growth presents a major challenge for storage administrators as they need to accommodate it in addition to other IT initiatives - all with the same or fewer dollars than last year. ESG research has...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Enterprise Strategy Group, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-06-01

What You Don't Manage Can Hurt You: An ESG Perspective on eDiscovery and Compliance

The attendee of this webcast will find out how to do more with EMC SourceOne products, a family of next-generation information governance solutions. Based on a scalable, flexible, and innovative architecture, EMC SourceOne solutions enable policy-driven information management to address critical archiving, eDiscovery, and compliance requirements. The attendee will learn...

Tags: Compliance, EMC Corp., Manage Inc., Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-05-28

ESG - Why Sharepoint Needs Riverbed WAN Optimization

Many SharePoint implementations are mission critical, yet access to these sites is often thwarted by poor network performance. In this analyst report from ESG, you'll discover how, much like Microsoft Exchange and other collaboration applications, companies deploying SharePoint can benefit from WAN optimization solutions, ensuring that they make the most...

Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Optimization, Microsoft SharePoint, Groupware, Collaboration, WANs, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Networking, Software

White papers 2009-04-01

Disk Backup and EMC: Addressing Today's Business Problems

There's no question about it: The face of data protection has forever changed - and that new face is disk. Today, more and more organizations prefer disk as the nightly backup target. For an increasing number of these organizations, it is the only solution. Corporate and regulatory requirements, eDiscovery/litigation events...

Tags: Disk, EMC Corp., Backups

White papers 2009-03-30

Addressing the Top Data Protection Challenges in Mixed Physical and Virtual Server Environments: Symantec Backup and Recovery Solutions for Physical and Virtual Servers

IT organizations are well-versed in protecting their physical infrastructure and data from interruptions. Most, if not all, organizations employ some level of data protection to minimize downtime and data loss in the event of a disruption. Just as introducing multiple operating systems created complexity and challenges, as these organizations incorporate...

Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Environment, IT Organization, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization, Backups, Virtualization, Data Management, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-02-23

Iron Mountain Delivers File Archiving Service

For organizations struggling with data file overload, retention and discovery requirements, ESG notes that offsite archiving can offer a practical solution. In this whitepaper, ESG focuses on how Iron Mountain's Virtual File Store allows organizations to securely and cost-effectively offload data, set and enforce retention policies, and save information in...

Tags: Iron Mountain Inc., Archiving, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-02-01

Syncsort Backup Express and NetApp: Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Coupling NetApp's SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort's Backup Express BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business. This ESG Lab report...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Data Protection, Syncsort, Enterprise Strategy Group, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Storage, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-01-01