Vinny Choinski

• lab reports
  Jan 20, 2012

  Field Audit: EMC NetWorker

  ESG recently completed interviews with several customers using EMC NetWorker backup and recovery solutions. This ESG Field Audit documents the successes of these diverse customers as they take advantage of NetWorker's benefits along with EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems and EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) software.

• blogs
  Jan 10, 2012

  Lab Report - EMC ProSphere
• lab reports
  Jan 10, 2012

  EMC ProSphere

  This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of the EMC ProSphere storage resource management solution. Testing explored how ProSphere can help simplify management, identify problem areas, and ensure application performance in otherwise complex storage environments. The report focuses on the easy deployment, agent-less discovery, and end-to-end storage environment visibility elements of ProSphere.

• blogs
  Jan 9, 2012

  Lab Report - Citrix XenServer 6.0
• lab reports
  Jan 9, 2012

  Citrix XenServer 6.0

  This ESG Lab Validation Report presents hands-on evaluation and testing results of Citrix XenServer. Testing centered on virtualized server performance when compared to physical server performance with a focus on virtual server migration and application performance in a virtualized environment. ESG Lab also looked at the performance monitoring and optimization capabilities of XenServer, including the use of Citrix's dynamic memory allocation.

• blogs
  Jan 9, 2012

  Lab Report - NetApp FAS2240
• lab reports
  Jan 9, 2012

  NetApp FAS2240

  This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the FAS2240, NetApp's newly released entry-level storage system. ESG Lab focused on three key areas that make the FAS2240 an appealing offering for small to medium-sized businesses: easy deployment, simple manageability, and performance scalability.

• lab reports
  Oct 11, 2011

  EMC PowerPath vs. Windows Native MPIO: Automated Data Path Management, Failover and Recovery, and Optimized Load Balancing

  EMC PowerPath improves data center performance with automated data path management, failover and recovery, and optimized load balancing. While many operating systems include free, native multipath I/O (MPIO) capabilities, customers often don't know the difference between these offerings and PowerPath. This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing conducted with the goal of comparing PowerPath's optimized load-balancing and other capabilities with the native MPIO included with Microsoft Windows.

• blogs
  Oct 11, 2011

  Lab Report - EMC PowerPath vs. Windows native MPIO
• blogs
  Oct 7, 2011

  The ESG Lab Blog is now online
• blogs
  Oct 6, 2011

  Lab Report - EMC Networker
• lab reports
  Oct 6, 2011

  EMC VPLEX Metro and Geo: GeoSynchrony 5.0 Updates

  This ESG Lab report explores new hardware and software features that streamline and simplify EMC VPLEX management. It also examines how VPLEX Metro and Geo, combined with VPLEX Witness, can be used to create a collaborative and resilient infrastructure over distance.

• lab reports
  Oct 5, 2011

  EMC Symmetrix VMAX Enginuity 5875: Virtualizing Tier-1 Applications with Confidence

  This report presents an analysis of the value of the EMC Enginuity software update for the Symmetrix VMAX which was released for general availability in December, 2010. Analysis of the results of ESG Lab testing with VMware vSphere and Oracle RAC 11g was used to validate how VMAX software enhancements, including FAST VP and VMware VAAI API support, can be used to virtualize tier-1 applications with confidence.

• lab reports
  Sep 20, 2011

  EMC VNX Total Protection Pack: Continuous Local, Remote, and Application Protection with Unified Management

  This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of local, remote, and application protection components of the EMC VNX Total Protection Pack, which consists of RecoverPoint/SE, Replication Manager, and Data Protection Advisor for Replication Analysis. ESG Lab evaluated both replication and consolidated management capabilities at an EMC lab facility in Hopkinton, MA.

• lab reports
  Aug 31, 2011

  Avere FXT Series: Efficient Scale-out NAS

  This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of the Avere FXT Series NAS appliances. The Avere FXT Series appliances are designed to provide efficient high performance data tiering and scale-out clustering to any NAS solution by separating performance scaling from capacity scaling to deliver each more efficiently.

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