ESG Validation

Introduction

ESG evaluated Riverbed Cloud Accelerator for enterprise apps running on public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in Microsoft Azure and Client Accelerator for desktop and mobile clients to validate how this end-to-end solution accelerates SaaS application performance while overcoming the limitations of application latency, bandwidth constraints, and network congestion.

Introduction

This ESG Technical Validation documents the results of recent Nutanix performance testing focused on real-world performance scalability and sustainability improvements in support of mission- and business-critical application, database, and end-user computing (EUC) workloads.

Abstract

This ESG Technical Review documents hands-on performance and function testing of Huawei OceanStor Pacific storage for high performance data analytics (HPDA) and presents the findings of a five-year TCO analysis highlighting the economic benefits of Huawei OceanStor Pacific when compared with storage systems from other major vendors.

Abstract

This ESG Technical Review documents hands-on evaluation of the Zoom Unified Communications Platform. We evaluated how the Zoom collaboration solution achieves high levels of security, ease of use, and flexibility via its desktop and mobile application. ESG’s goal was to examine how Zoom provides confident security for the strictest environments, including government, education, healthcare, financial services, and more.

Introduction

This report documents ESG validation testing of the InfiniGuard data protection and recovery solution from Infinidat with a goal of exploring the benefits of the InfiniGuard architecture, including immutable ransomware recovery, cost-optimized backup and restore performance, and ease of deployment and management.

Introduction

This ESG Technical Validation examines the capability of NetApp Virtual Desktop Service (VDS) to deploy, manage, and optimize virtual desktop environments through a SaaS-delivered global control plane for hybrid/multi-cloud environments. We also take an analytic look at cost of ownership to explore how NetApp VDS could reduce cloud infrastructure spending through advanced scaling and resource management technologies and IT administrative costs through automation and streamlining.

Introduction

This ESG Technical Validation documents testing of IBM Cloud Pak for Security, with a goal of verifying how it can help organizations to maximize both the effectiveness and efficiency of incident response, threat remediation, and risk management within their existing security operations workflows.

Executive Summary

In this Technical Review, ESG audited testing designed to demonstrate how Dell Technologies Cloud PowerScale for Azure, powered by Faction—a multi-cloud data services provider—enables demanding file workloads such as large-capacity, high performance computing (HPC) applications including life sciences/bioinformatics and big data analytics, with a focus on performance, utilization, and business value.

Co-Author(s): Christophe Bertrand

Protection Challenges:

Container adoption is accelerating and so too is the requirement to properly protect container environments and the data in them. ESG research indicates that, so far, IT professionals are often just kicking the can down the road. While many organizations recognize the growing importance of containers relative to other vital application platforms, their confidence levels in their ability to protect containerized workloads are lagging.