Vinny Choinski, on Nov 30, 2018 1:46:00 PM
This ESG Lab report documents hands-on validation and performance auditing of Veritas Virtual Appliances. The report focuses on deployment of the appliance into existing virtual infrastructure, which is easy and flexible while still delivering the performance required to meet today’s modern data protection workload challenges.
Alex Arcilla, on Nov 13, 2018 11:30:00 AM
This ESG Lab Review documents hands-on testing of ThreatConnect TC Analyze to verify its ability to reduce an organization’s mean time to respond to security incidents and threats. We focused on how TC Analyze can help security operations center (SOC) and incident response (IR) analysts to enrich threat data and create intelligence about identified threats, import files or emails to extract potential threats, manage action items related to specific threats and incidents, and create customized dashboards.
Tony Palmer, on Nov 12, 2018 11:00:00 AM
This ESG Lab Review documents hands-on testing of ThreatConnect TC Identify and evaluates its ability to accelerate and simplify threat detection. ESG Lab focused on how TC Identify provides IT managers with the tools to configure threat intelligence from more than 100 open source data feeds and premium feeds that the organization subscribes to, summarize and score potential threats with insights from the ThreatConnect Research Team, and optimize data dissection by integrating with other tools such as a SIEM or firewall.
Kerry Dolan, on Nov 8, 2018 11:18:00 AM
This ESG Lab Validation report documents testing of Pure Storage’s Purity ActiveCluster synchronous replication, with a focus on ease of deployment and management, and stretched-cluster business continuity that delivers recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) of zero.
Vinny Choinski, on Nov 6, 2018 10:26:00 AM
This ESG Technical Review documents hands-on validation of the Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) DP4400. The goal of the report is to validate that the IDPA DP4400 can be easily deployed and managed by a data protection specialist or an IT generalist with minimal data protection and storage skills.
Tony Palmer, on Nov 5, 2018 1:51:00 PM
This ESG Technical Validation report documents testing of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) F900, with a focus on real-world workload performance, workflow simplification through automation, and business continuity leveraging Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (HIAA) and the VSP’s global-active device feature, sometimes called GAD.
Tony Palmer, on Nov 5, 2018 1:45:00 PM
This ESG Technical Review documents hands-on testing of Huawei FusionStorage Cloud Storage. Testing focused on ease of deployment and management; consistent, high performance for real world workloads; availability and fault tolerance; and non-disruptive, online scalability.
Alex Arcilla, on Oct 11, 2018 2:07:00 PM
This ESG Technical Review documents hands-on testing of the CloudGenix AppFabric SD-WAN solution. Testing focused on how the solution helps organizations to optimize application performance over their virtual network connections, monitor that performance continuously with application- and network-focused metrics, and simplify and automate workflows when deploying, configuring, and managing multiple sites.
Jack Poller, on Oct 5, 2018 3:03:00 PM
As organizations of all sizes embrace digital transformation and the shift to modern cloud architectures, their IT infrastructure is both growing and becoming more complex. Indeed, two-thirds (68%) of respondents to an ESG research survey said that their IT environment had become more complex in the last two years.1
Complex infrastructures have large attack surface areas, necessitating a variety of cybersecurity tools and techniques to protect them against ever-increasing volumes and sophistication of attacks. However, cybersecurity teams report numerous challenges managing an assortment of security products from different vendors, such as the inefficiencies created by having separate management and operations for each tool, cited by 27% of ESG research respondents as a challenge, or different tools for various parts of the IT infrastructure (24%), or the number of security tools making operations complex and time consuming (22%)
Vinny Choinski, on Sep 25, 2018 2:37:00 PM
This ESG Technical Review documents hands-on validation designed to demonstrate how Odaseva can help its customers address the complex challenges of data management in their Salesforce environments. The report focuses on the enterprise-class features of the Odaseva solution, its Salesforce data protection and data management functionality, and its Salesforce data governance and GDPR compliance capabilities.
At ESG, we take information technology product reviews to the next level by testing emerging solutions not only for performance, but also for key factors that matter to the business, including usability, agility, and reliability.
Brian Garrett, Vice President, ESG Lab
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