ESG Blogs

It’s amazing how prescient the creators of the PDF were. In 1993, they designed a file format that captured physical output in extremely high fidelity. Twenty-five years later, PDF is the gold-standard for content distribution.

And ESG has always delivered technical validations—and much of the rest of our content—as PDF files.

The one constant in IT is change. This aphorism applies not only to the technology, but to people, processes, and organizations. Like the rest of IT, ESG’s validation services have been undergoing change.

In my last few blogs, I wrote about benchmarking tools and performance analysis because, for a long time, these were significant parts of our validation process.

As I discussed in Motive, Means, and Opportunity for Evaluating HCI Performance, performance is a key HCI buying criteria.

With all the hype surrounding hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), ESG’s technical validation practice has been busy evaluating various HCI solutions.

Motive

According to my colleagues Mike Leone, Edwin Yuen, and Terri McClure, organizations are now confident enough in HCI that they’re deploying HCI as their primary infrastructure housing their tier-1 applications. Thus, buying criteria has evolved from answering “Can this offering support my applications?” to “How well can it support my application?”

Hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) are one of the drivers of the current data center revolution—39% of organizations have already deployed their first HCI solution.

A few weeks ago, I blogged about some of the many networking acronyms that can transform your data center.

Arguably, nothing in the last decade has been more revolutionary in IT than virtualization.

Last week, I attended IBM’s Cloud Summit in New York. This was IBM’s opportunity to re-affirm its commitment to the cloud, and to enlighten us about IBM’s future. Over the course of the day, IBM Cloud’s senior management team detailed their cloud strategy, execution, and future plans.