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Video Blog on Dell Compellent Storage Center Thin Provisioning

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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 … Read more

Your Replication is not my Disaster Recovery

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[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 … Read more

ESG Lab Validation – EMC VNX Total Protection Pack

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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 most recent … Read more

Webinar: IT Challenges for Remote Offices

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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 … Read more

What I did last Summer

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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 … Read more