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• lab reports
  Mar 21, 2013

  VMware Horizon View with Tintri

  A Simple, Fast, and Affordable VDI Solution from VMware and Tintri

  This report documents the results of ESG Lab’s hands-on testing of VMware Horizon View 5.1 with the Tintri VMstore platform. Testing focused on performance in the context of the end-user experience in a 1,000 seat virtual desktop environment. In addition, the ease of deployment, manageability, and cost-effectiveness of the Tintri solution in VMware environments were also examined.

• lab reports
  Mar 14, 2013

  Hitachi Unified Storage VM and Hitachi Command Suite

  Extending Enterprise Storage Capabilities to the Midmarket

  ESG Lab recently completed hands-on testing and analysis of Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Command Suite (HCS) 7.3 software. This report focuses on the evolutionary enhancements to both HUS VM and HCS that enable the Hitachi Data Systems vision of one platform for all data providing shared storage services in the data center and private cloud. This validation also focuses on how HUS VM and HCS improve administration, operations, provisioning, performance, and resilience for enterprise storage environments.

• lab reports
  Mar 4, 2013

  Lab Review: Druva inSync Cloud: Distributed Endpoint Data Protection

  This ESG Lab Review documents hands-on testing of Druva inSync Cloud, an endpoint backup solution with a focus on ease of deployment and use, near-continuous data protection, access and restore, and data deduplication in a mixed Windows and Mac environment.

• lab reports
  Feb 27, 2013

  VMware vSphere Data Protection

  Fast, Simple, and Agentless Deduplicated Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery

  This report documents hands-on testing of VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) with a focus on the operational benefits of the simple and manageable data protection offered within the VMware management infrastructure, as well as the cost and capacity efficiency of the solution's integrated deduplication technology.

• lab reports
  Feb 25, 2013

  IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments

  Robust, Comprehensive Data Protection for Virtualized Environments

  This ESG Lab report focuses on hands-on evaluation and testing of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) for Virtual Environments and FlashCopy Manager for VMware from IBM. Testing validated TSM for Virtual Environments and FlashCopy Manager for VMware focusing on ease of deployment and use, application integration and support, and VMware cluster protection.

• lab reports
  Feb 22, 2013

  Panasas ActiveStor

  High Performance HPC Storage for the Enterprise

  This report documents the results of ESG Lab’s hands-on testing of the performance scalability of the Panasas ActiveStor 11 and ActiveStor 14 high performance computing (HPC) storage systems. ActiveStor is a plug-and-play, scale-out NAS solution designed with enterprise manageability in mind. ESG Lab evaluated the solution with an eye on validating the claims of appliance-like simplicity in support of large-scale storage environments with demanding HPC performance requirements.

• lab reports
  Feb 14, 2013

  HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

  Simple, Efficient, Affordable Tier-1 Storage

  This report documents the results of ESG Lab’s hands-on testing and validation of the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 storage array, with a focus on autonomic simplicity, efficient unified storage, application performance, and resilience for mid-range enterprises.

• lab reports
  Feb 14, 2013

  Riverbed Granite Edge Virtual Infrastructure

  Optimizing Server, Application, and Storage Consolidation

  Riverbed Technology provides a performance platform for enterprises implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery in a globally connected enterprise. Riverbed solutions are designed to enable a fluid, dynamic IT architecture by eliminating bottlenecks and increasing the performance of a full range of business applications including e-mail, ERP, CRM, backup, and file sharing. This ESG Lab Validation examines Riverbed’s WAN optimization as well as the Riverbed Granite Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure that enables organizations to consolidate servers and data considered impossible to consolidate due to the response time requirements of branch-bound applications that rely on local storage.

• News
  Jan 14, 2013

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• lab reports
  Dec 21, 2012

  Hewlett Packard StoreEasy 5000 Storage

  Robust, Simple, High Performance Midrange file storage

  This ESG Lab Validation documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of the HP StoreEasy 5000 Storage file appliance with an emphasis on the simplicity, performance, and synergies with Microsoft Windows Server environments. Testing was designed to validate the StoreEasy 5000 as a robust, viable midrange file storage appliance. Of special interest was high availability, SMB 3.0 support, “cluster-in-a-box” features as well as the “green” benefits delivered in StoreEasy 5000’s compact 3U form factor.

• lab reports
  Dec 4, 2012

  Teradata Aster MapReduce Platform

  Powering Next-generation Analytic Applications in a Unified Big Data Architecture  

  Big data analytics is taking center stage among large midmarket and enterprise organizations that are looking to capture, refine, and analyze all types of data available to them on customer interactions and business operations. Driven by increasing data volume growth and the need for fast data processing and analytics, an emerging technology based on the open-source Apache Hadoop project is growing in popularity based on its ability to address big data needs with a cluster of industry-standard servers. Users are challenged to determine where Hadoop adds the most value in unified data architecture with best-of-breed components in the technology stack.

  This ESG Lab Validation report aims to inform decision makers who are considering options for a big data analytics platform and illustrate the complementary value of Teradata Aster and Hadoop as key components in a best-of-breed technology approach. ESG Lab compared Hadoop with Teradata Aster—since both platforms support MapReduce processing—to explore and contrast their strengths as components of big data architecture. ESG Lab assessed the ease of use, performance, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), and analytic-readiness of Teradata Aster and Hadoop running multiple large data sets on real-world data models. 

• lab reports
  Nov 7, 2012

  NetApp Distributed Content Repository

  Big Content Scalability, Enterprise Reliability, and Intelligent Object Management

  This report documents hands-on evaluation and testing of the NetApp Distributed Content Repository.  The Distributed Content Repository was designed to extend object-based storage across geographies and provide a repository for unstructured content that is effectively infinite, practically immortal, and highly intelligent.  In this ESG Lab report, the NetApp Distributed Content Repository is examined in the context of transparent connectivity to massively scalable, object-based storage for enterprises in data centers, branch and remote offices as well as in the cloud, via service providers.  Simplified management of data and policy-based security and retention are also explored.

   

• lab reports
  Oct 29, 2012

  Oracle’s Sun Storage 2500-M2 Array Mixed Workload Analysis

  This ESG Lab report explores the capabilities of Oracle’s Sun Storage 2500-M2 array deployed with a cost-effectively optimized, highly available virtual infrastructure that’s built with an end-to-end combination of hardware and software from Oracle.  

• lab reports
  Oct 29, 2012

  Oracle’s Sun Storage 2500-M2 Array with VDI

  This ESG Lab report explores the capabilities of Oracle’s Sun Storage 2500-M2 array deployed with a cost-effectively optimized, highly available virtual infrastructure that’s built with an end-to-end combination of hardware and software from Oracle.  

• lab reports
  Oct 16, 2012

  Lab Review: Ping Identity – PingOne Application Provider Services

  This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of Ping Identity’s PingOne Application Provider Services, highlighting the ease of use, rapid initial integration and onboarding for new customers, and support for the power of single sign-on (SSO).

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