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Enterprise Strategy Group
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The Pressing Need for an Adaptive Threat Management Architecture
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
No organization would purposefully create a network that can't meet business demands, but this may happen by proxy - as a result of poor and increasingly ineffective network security. Logic...
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NetApp SANscreen: Optimizing the Virtualized Data Center
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Today's business environment is more challenging than ever before. Global market conditions are subject to rapid change while compliance and regulation issues continue to be more demanding on IT....
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Increasing Storage Efficiency and Reducing Costs in the Data Center Through Effective Capacity Management
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
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...
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Leveraging Symantec's Enterprise Vault With Microsoft Exchange 2007
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In today's corporate environment, it is very hard not to think about e-mail. Thanks to PDAs and other technology, the ability to send and receive messages is always at finger tips. And, when one...
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The Growing Need for Endpoint Risk and Operations Management (EROM)
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
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...
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A Phased Approach to Network Access Control (NAC)
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Network Access Control (NAC) is a classic example of industry hyperbole at work. In its genesis phase, NAC was really a concept and no more. Soon it was embraced as an end-to-end architecture...
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CCS 9.0: A Comprehensive Compliance Management Suite, an Opportunity for Symantec
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Symantec announced a new version of its Control Compliance Suite at its recent Vision event in Las Vegas. What's the big deal? Its new CCS 9.0 may be the most comprehensive compliance suite...
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Symantec Delivers Thin Aware Veritas File System
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Symantec released new functionality for its Veritas Storage Foundation product line in October. Enhancements include a Thin Aware file system, the ability to dynamically migrate data to thin...
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Enhancing Operations Efficiency: Symantec Delivers Veritas Operations Services
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Symantec has launched a new suite of services called Veritas Operations Services aimed at improving operational efficiencies in day to day activities like software upgrades, ensuring best...
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Critical Design Decisions: Server Virtualization and Networked Storage
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
End-users should be looking for proven technologies that leverage existing investments and expertise. Why try to reinvent the wheel? Creating a virtual machine always involves the provisioning of...
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Symantec Cuts Storage Costs With Enterprise Vault 8.0
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
A consistent innovator in the archive market, Symantec has been continually improving its Enterprise Vault solution to allow customers to save more information with greater efficiency. Enterprise...
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Addressing the Top Data Protection Challenges in Mixed Physical and Virtual Server Environments: Symantec Backup and Recovery Solutions for Physical and Virtual Servers
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Server virtualization is pervasive in data centers of medium-size to larger organizations. As these organizations leverage server virtualization for Tier 1 applications, it becomes even more...
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Differentiating Hardware-And Software-Based Data De-Duplication
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
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...
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Identity and Information Security Integration
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Off late identity management and information security solutions were often procured, implemented, and managed independently with different tools, processes, and organizational units. The...
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Securing Personally Identifiable Information
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Sensitive information - such as credit card numbers and social security numbers combined with a person's first and last name, (a.k.a., Personally Identifiable Information, or PII) - is everywhere....
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Syncsort Backup Express and NetApp: Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
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...
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The New Security Management Model
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Driven by regulatory compliance and security event correlation, most large organizations have deployed a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system over the past few years. Does this...
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Database Security and Compliance Risks
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The impact of security weaknesses like those described in this report on society at large have not escaped the attention of governments around the world - many are now demanding action. Upon the...
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Optimizing Operational Efficiency and Resiliency in VMware Environments With Hitachi Data Systems Solutions
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business continuity and disaster recovery have been hot topics for IT and business executives for as long as companies have been relying on technology to run their businesses. Since day one, "What...
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Scaling Server Virtualization to the Enterprise: Accelerate the Time to Value
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The promise of server virtualization is very attractive to companies of all sizes - leveraging this technology as a foundation to create a dynamic computing platform to deliver higher levels of...
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Accelerating Virtualization Adoption With Application Awareness
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Server virtualization is helping companies take a giant leap forward by maximizing their ROI on IT assets and helping streamline routine IT tasks. Many IT professionals, business owners, and the...
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VMware View 3 Magnifies Desktop Virtualization
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
With its recent announcement of VMware View 3, VMware improves its virtual desktop offerings by advancing management, scalability, and end-user experience. The timing of the announcement coincides...
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Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The goal of IT is to become an invisible entity within a larger scale organization - an entity that can quickly adapt to change and scale to meet the rapidly changing needs of today's business, an...
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Desktop Virtualization, Management, and Security
November 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Desktop virtualization has received more than its fair share of publicity lately. But is it simply industry rhetoric or is this attention warranted? ESG believes that in this case, all of the...
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Storage Efficiency Strategies for Microsoft Application Environments
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A 2008 ESG survey of nearly 400 enterprises revealed that, on average, organizations spend 28% of their IT budgets on storage inclusive of systems, software, and services. In another ESG study...
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Driving Storage Efficiency in SAN Environments
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Time and again, ESG research finds that data growth is cited as a top IT storage challenge. IT organizations large and small are being inundated with data that needs to be stored, managed, and...
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NetApp and Oracle Make Information Lifecycle Management Easy
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The process of entering data into a system and using it to create business value is the basis of all applications. Data is entered, stored, and then processed to produce information that can be...
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ESG Lab Validation Report: NetApp Ethernet Storage Protocol Independent Convergence With FCoE
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is an emerging standard that maps Fibre Channel storage traffic over an Enhanced 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. NetApp is the first storage vendor to support...
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Network Convergence in the Data Center Makes Sense
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is an attempt to demonstrate that network convergence in data centers is the way to go for organizations instead of maintaining two separate networks, as is the prevalent practice....
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The Next Phase in Modernization: Unifying the Dynamic Data Center
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Whenever problems have confronted businesses, technological innovations have helped them come out of it. Once the problem is identified, a solution is worked out, which is then implemented. This...
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Disk Backup and EMC: Addressing Today's Business Problems
May 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Has data protection changed forever? Is the new face a disk? Yes, suggests the paper. As more businesses look toward the disk as the end of day backup target, for an increasing number this has...
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VMware vSphere Raising Data Centers Closer to the Cloud
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
All business enterprises are willing to invest in something that reap productivity and control costs in the long run no matter however big it may be if they know they can gain something from it....
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The Business Value of Intelligent Tiered Storage: Hitachi Data Systems' Integrated Block and File Tiering
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Tiered storage is one of those things that is a means to an end - and not an end in itself. The reason tiered - not just tiered, but effectively and efficiently tiered - storage is becoming more...
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Trend Micro Marries Security With Cloud Computing
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Last week in New York City, Trend Micro announced its Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, a new type of security model that marries a lightweight desktop agent to Trend's vast network-based...
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Understanding and Enhancing Virtual Desktop Security
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Desktop virtualization isn't a mere fad or industry hyperbole. ESG research indicates that large organizations are actively deploying desktop virtualization technology today or plan to do so in...
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Exploring the ESG "Outside-In" Confidential Data Security Model
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
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...
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Deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010 With NetApp Networked Storage
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper will highlight ESG's research on current IT trends associated with deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010 in addition to the specific value NetApp can offer in a Microsoft Exchange 2010...
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Bridging the IT-Business Alignment Chasm
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The quote above points to the potential for dramatic improvement that can be realized when infrastructure and application teams understand their respective requirements and contributions. Tight...
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Desktop Virtualization Efficiencies With Citrix and NetApp
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is unrealistic to think that desktop virtualization will replace 100% of current end-user environments, but it is feasible to see it have widespread adoption across all industries and markets....
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Effectively and Efficiently Managing Virtualized Infrastructures
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Modern businesses must be able to react quickly to changing market dynamics, especially given recent global economic turmoil. Provided that most of these organizations rely on IT to power their...
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Identity-Aware Networking
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When you think about identity management, what comes to mind? Probably things like LDAP directories, strong authentication, and Single Sign-On (SSO) systems. In general, these technologies are...
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Hitachi Data Systems' Silver Lining: HDS Enables a Flexible, Fluid Cloud Storage Infrastructure
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Data growth is one of the few sure things in life and a major IT cost even in a down economy. In fact, for many businesses, data growth is accelerating as more and more organizations use analytics...
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Addressing the Root Causes of Inefficiency in Data Protection
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The continued upward trending of data growth, spending cuts driven by current economic factors and pressure to meet increasingly inflexible Service Level Agreements (SLAs) continue to beleaguer IT...
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Whats Needed for Cloud Computing?
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true - cloud computing...
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Improving Backup Effectiveness and Cost-Efficiency With Deduplicationa
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
IT professionals responsible for backup and recovery operations are seeking ways to make processes automated, faster, more reliable, and less costly via the use of disk-to-disk-to-disk (D2D2D) or...
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Innovate, Integrate, and Accelerate Virtualization; With Vblock Infrastructure Packages
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization across the data center is creating the need for tighter integration of servers, networking, and storage. As a result, data center solutions are more frequently being delivered and...
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Realizing and Maximizing an e-Mail Archive ROI With EMC SourceOne Email Management
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Inaccurate ROI modeling can lead to uninformed decisions about e-mail archive solutions, often leading customers to maintain the status quo when it comes to message management. This outcome can...
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Optimizing File Services With Deduplication and Virtualization
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There is a tremendous amount of discussion in the media about virtualized IT and converged infrastructure. Organizations are in the process of transforming their data centers into environments...
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Disaster Recovery With EMC Replication Solutions and VMware Site Recovery Manager
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Computer viruses, software faults, disk failures, data corruption and man-made errors: while these might not seem like "Disasters," they cause interruptions that can wreak havoc on daily business...
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EMC Centera: Optimizing Archive Efficiency
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Digital archiving has become a hot topic for corporate IT - driven by unrelenting data growth, the need to meet corporate compliance guidelines, and increasing federal regulation. To cost...
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Leveraging SNIA XAM for Digital Archives
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As the growth of information volumes in digital archives continues to explode, retention periods lengthen and digital archives become extensions of primary production environments, organizations...
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NetApp Simplifies Storage Management for Virtual Server Environments
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The blurring of boundaries between infrastructure components that occurs with virtualized environments impacts administration; while organizations are accustomed to having dedicated server,...
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Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 With NetApp Networked Storage
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
NetApp has built solutions and incorporated features into those solutions that meet the demands of Exchange while still considering the rest of the application deployments. Deploying Exchange on...
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NetApp Storage Efficiency and Data Protection
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
NetApp storage solutions address these challenges with several storage efficiency features - including snapshot, thin provisioning, deduplication, and RAID DP - that drive down the costs of...
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The Value of NetApp Storage With Consolidation and Virtualization in Microsoft SQL Server Environments
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
While individual applications, consolidation efforts, and the virtualization of infrastructure often get discussed - or indeed, implemented - as separate items, optimum value is invariably to be...
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NetApp Non-Backup Backup: Challenging the Data Protection Status Quo
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
NetApp would propose that IT organizations looking for a more efficient backup solution should look to Netapp's data protection portfolio - its "non-backup" backup solutions. This paper will...
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Brocade One and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform: A Reference Architecture for Next Generation Data Centers
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
If one ask business executives today what they need most from their organizations, the majority would cite the ability to respond quickly to changing conditions. Shifting markets, constant...
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Transitioning to a Dynamic Data Center
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The speed of change in global markets and the challenges of new modes of business demand companies operate in and react to quickly changing landscapes. Nowhere is this more critical than in the...
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Effectively and Efficiently Managing Virtualized Infrastructures
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Modern businesses must be able to react quickly to changing market dynamics, especially given recent global economic turmoil. Provided that most of these organizations rely on IT to power their...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Desktop Virtualization Efficiencies With Citrix and NetApp
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is unrealistic to think that desktop virtualization will replace 100% of current end-user environments, but it is feasible to see it have widespread adoption across all industries and markets....
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Bridging the IT-Business Alignment Chasm
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The quote above points to the potential for dramatic improvement that can be realized when infrastructure and application teams understand their respective requirements and contributions. Tight...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010 With NetApp Networked Storage
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper will highlight ESG's research on current IT trends associated with deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010 in addition to the specific value NetApp can offer in a Microsoft Exchange 2010...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Exploring the ESG "Outside-In" Confidential Data Security Model
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
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...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Understanding and Enhancing Virtual Desktop Security
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Desktop virtualization isn't a mere fad or industry hyperbole. ESG research indicates that large organizations are actively deploying desktop virtualization technology today or plan to do so in...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Trend Micro Marries Security With Cloud Computing
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Last week in New York City, Trend Micro announced its Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, a new type of security model that marries a lightweight desktop agent to Trend's vast network-based...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
The Business Value of Intelligent Tiered Storage: Hitachi Data Systems' Integrated Block and File Tiering
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Tiered storage is one of those things that is a means to an end - and not an end in itself. The reason tiered - not just tiered, but effectively and efficiently tiered - storage is becoming more...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
VMware vSphere Raising Data Centers Closer to the Cloud
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
All business enterprises are willing to invest in something that reap productivity and control costs in the long run no matter however big it may be if they know they can gain something from it....
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Disk Backup and EMC: Addressing Today's Business Problems
May 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Has data protection changed forever? Is the new face a disk? Yes, suggests the paper. As more businesses look toward the disk as the end of day backup target, for an increasing number this has...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
The Next Phase in Modernization: Unifying the Dynamic Data Center
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Whenever problems have confronted businesses, technological innovations have helped them come out of it. Once the problem is identified, a solution is worked out, which is then implemented. This...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Network Convergence in the Data Center Makes Sense
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is an attempt to demonstrate that network convergence in data centers is the way to go for organizations instead of maintaining two separate networks, as is the prevalent practice....
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
ESG Lab Validation Report: NetApp Ethernet Storage Protocol Independent Convergence With FCoE
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is an emerging standard that maps Fibre Channel storage traffic over an Enhanced 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. NetApp is the first storage vendor to support...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
NetApp and Oracle Make Information Lifecycle Management Easy
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The process of entering data into a system and using it to create business value is the basis of all applications. Data is entered, stored, and then processed to produce information that can be...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Driving Storage Efficiency in SAN Environments
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Time and again, ESG research finds that data growth is cited as a top IT storage challenge. IT organizations large and small are being inundated with data that needs to be stored, managed, and...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Storage Efficiency Strategies for Microsoft Application Environments
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A 2008 ESG survey of nearly 400 enterprises revealed that, on average, organizations spend 28% of their IT budgets on storage inclusive of systems, software, and services. In another ESG study...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Desktop Virtualization, Management, and Security
November 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Desktop virtualization has received more than its fair share of publicity lately. But is it simply industry rhetoric or is this attention warranted? ESG believes that in this case, all of the...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The goal of IT is to become an invisible entity within a larger scale organization - an entity that can quickly adapt to change and scale to meet the rapidly changing needs of today's business, an...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
VMware View 3 Magnifies Desktop Virtualization
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
With its recent announcement of VMware View 3, VMware improves its virtual desktop offerings by advancing management, scalability, and end-user experience. The timing of the announcement coincides...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Accelerating Virtualization Adoption With Application Awareness
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Server virtualization is helping companies take a giant leap forward by maximizing their ROI on IT assets and helping streamline routine IT tasks. Many IT professionals, business owners, and the...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Scaling Server Virtualization to the Enterprise: Accelerate the Time to Value
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The promise of server virtualization is very attractive to companies of all sizes - leveraging this technology as a foundation to create a dynamic computing platform to deliver higher levels of...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Optimizing Operational Efficiency and Resiliency in VMware Environments With Hitachi Data Systems Solutions
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business continuity and disaster recovery have been hot topics for IT and business executives for as long as companies have been relying on technology to run their businesses. Since day one, "What...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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