Brian Garrett

• Lab Reports
  May 14, 2012

  NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop

  Open Source Data Analytics with Enterprise-class Storage Services

  This ESG Lab report presents the results of hands-on testing of the NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop, a highly reliable, ready to deploy, scalable storage solution for Enterprise Hadoop.

• Lab Reports
  May 2, 2012

  Workload Performance Analysis: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Hyper-V

  Virtualizing Tier-1 Application Workloads with Confidence

  This report presents the results of ESG Lab testing of the performance and scalability of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Hyper-V server virtualization technology. Testing with a tier-1 virtualized Microsoft SQL Server 2012 application workload was used to confirm that Hyper-V can be used to lower total cost of ownership, increase scalability, and maintain performance.

• Lab Reports
  Apr 23, 2012

  Content Raven

  Content Control and Analytics

  ESG Lab conducted hands on testing of Content Raven's Content Control and Analytics solution to determine how content is delivered as a service securely and simply, and how the service delivers meaningful analytics about content consumption.

• Briefs
  Apr 18, 2012

  HP VirtualSystem Brings Microsoft Private Cloud Capabilities to Enterprises of All Sizes

  "Virtualization" does not equate to "private cloud"-but it is a key tenet of the private cloud, along with manageability, consistency, and deep understanding of enterprise-level best practices and customer use scenarios. Microsoft's Fast Track for Private Cloud provides a software architecture that enables the delivery of private cloud through its ecosystem. HP has applied its own engineering and integration expertise to Fast Track, resulting in HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft-HP Converged Infrastructure tuned for Microsoft private cloud environments.

• Lab Reports
  Apr 9, 2012

  VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management on NetApp

  Reducing Cost and Complexity with NetApp and VMware vCloud Director

  This ESG Lab Validation describes the hands-on testing of a VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp solution with a focus on the value of integrated manageability, policy-based provisioning and automation, and data management for business continuity.

• Lab Reports
  Apr 2, 2012

  Scality RING Organic Storage

  Flexible, Resilient, and High-performing Object-based Storage

  This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of Scality RING Organic cloud storage powered by Intel servers, Intel enterprise Solid-State Disk, and Gnodal low-latency 10GbE switch technologies. Testing focused on the manageability, organic design, self-healing capabilities, and highly scalable object-based performance that cloud service providers are seeking.

• Blogs
  Mar 27, 2012

  Storage Performance Cruise Control for Virtual Server Environments
• Lab Reports
  Mar 27, 2012

  Lab Review: NexGen n5 Storage System

  This ESG Lab review documents the hands-on testing of a NexGen n5 Storage System, with a focus on ioControl as it enables an admin to provision performance like capacity and deliver guaranteed performance in virtual server and mixed-workload environments.

• Lab Reports
  Mar 16, 2012

  Kaminario K2 Hybrid Solid-state SAN: Simply Fast Storage with DRAM and MLC Flash Capacity

  This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of the K2 Hybrid Solid-state storage area network (SAN) from Kaminario with a focus on the value of a highly available storage solution that leverages a mix of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and multi-level cell (MLC) flash technology to simply solve IO performance problems in business critical database environments.

• Blogs
  Mar 13, 2012

  Nasuni: Wicked Good Storage Services
• Lab Reports
  Jan 30, 2012

  Virident FlashMAX

  Virident Storage Class Memory (SCM) is a class of solid-state storage solutions designed to meet the extreme IO performance needs of business-critical databases, Web 2.0, high-performance computing (HPC), and data center tier-0 application workloads. This report documents ESG Lab's hands-on validation testing of Virident FlashMAX PCI Express (PCIe) SCM drives, with a focus on their multi-dimensional performance capabilities.

• Lab Reports
  Jan 12, 2012

  HP ProLiant DL980, Intel Xeon, and VMware vSphere 5 SAP Performance Analysis

  This report presents the results of ESG Lab testing of the performance and scalability of the HP ProLiant DL980 server powered by Intel Xeon processors, running SAP with VMware vSphere 5. Testing was conducted with a virtualized, tier-1 SAP application workload running on a massively scalable HP ProLiant DL980 server powered by next-generation Intel processors, running VMware virtualization software.   The tests were designed to confirm that virtualized infrastructure built with these components can be used to lower cost of ownership, increase scalability, and provide excellent performance while maintaining the reliability and availability required by tier-1 applications.

• Blogs
  Dec 13, 2011

  Who is on Top in the Cloud?
• Blogs
  Nov 22, 2011

  Scale-Out NAS continues to move from 'Lunatic Fringe' to 'Everywhere'
• Lab Reports
  Nov 22, 2011

  HP X9320 IBRIX Network Storage Systems Scale-Out NAS Performance

  This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of the performance of the HP Storage X9320 IBRIX Network Storage Systems(X9320) with a focus on performance scalability for large and small file workloads.

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