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Video Blog on Dell Compellent Storage Center Thin Provisioning

Last month, ESG Lab released its Lab Report on Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.4.

Click here to read the ESG Lab Report on Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.4.

This project was interesting to me not only because of the technology itself, but because it was the first ESG Lab project that I had the opportunity [...]

Your Replication is not my Disaster Recovery

[originally posted on my ESG blog – TechnicalOptimist.com]

It wasn’t that many years ago that ‘Disaster Recovery’ was a key buzz word for IT.  Somewhere along the way, it became ‘Business Continuity’.   Now days, it is simply a feature of your backup or storage solution.  Or is it?

First, let’s talk through the layers from [...]

Stop Shipping Tapes – please!

Last week, I saw the latest disclosure on what is still too common – “backup tapes are lost and the amount of disclosure is under investigation” .

This time, it was 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients – click to read original article.  The slightly abridged version is:

The lost data was stored on [...]

ESG Lab Validation – EMC VNX Total Protection Pack

One of the coolest parts about going from a single-vendor to ESG has been the chance to see IT from a broader perspective.

As a long-time ‘software-guy’, this was a chance to re-discover the power of hardware, particularly as it relates to data protection.

 

This week, the ESG Lab team released its [...]

Webinar: IT Challenges for Remote Offices

ESG recently delivered its quarterly research webinar – with this one discussing the IT Challenges of Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)

The top ROBO IT priorities are clear:

Improve the end-user experience and bolster information security.

A typical enterprise with 5,000 or more employees has an average of 394 physical locations. Many of these are remote [...]

What I did last Summer

Do you remember when you were a kid, and during the first day of school, the teacher would ask you to write an essay on what you did over the summer?

Looking back, I presume the teacher really wanted to get a sense of your writing skills, but also learn a little about you and [...]

Jason joins ESG

Today, I begin my next adventure – as an “Analyst & Lab Engineer” for ESG, the Enterprise Strategy Group.

For those that don’t know ESG, they are mostly known for their industry research and analysis of IT, particularly around Storage, Data Protection, Virtualization, Infrastructure Management, etc.

I had known of and worked with [...]

ESG reviews DPM 2010 appliance from i365

Don’t ya love it when some of your friends connect with your other friends – and you didn’t even know until they were already connected ?!

Well – some of my friends at i365 make a very cool DPM appliance that combines DPM 2010 and i365’s EVAULT software to deliver “Best for Windows” and “Heterogeneous” [...]