Validation

Cybersecurity Challenges:¹²

The ongoing cybersecurity skills shortage has two major implications. The most obvious is a shortage of talented cybersecurity professionals, with simply more cybersecurity job openings than qualified candidates to fill them. The second is at least as important: Many members of the current cybersecurity workforce lack the advanced skills necessary to safeguard critical business assets or counteract sophisticated cyber-adversaries. This helps to explin why preventative protection was the most cited core capability of endpoint security solutions in an ESG survey of cybersecurity professionals.

Co-Author (s):Tony Palmer

Cyber-recovery Data Protection Challenges

IT executives are noticing an increasing risk of cyber-attacks. And this risk is leading them to build more comprehensive data protection and cyber-resiliency strategies in an effort to protect their organizations from the detriments of application downtime and lost data. ESG research also shows that loss of employee productivity is the most cited impact that respondents believe could result from application downtime or lost data, followed by other challenges such as diversion of IT resources from business-critical projects, loss of customer and employee confidence, loss of revenue, and more.

Co-Author (s): Kerry Dolan

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, analytics, and end-user computing (EUC) workloads.

Introduction

This report documents ESG’s validation of Dell Technologies’ VxRail Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) running on the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and VxRail HCI System Software. ESG’s focus was on how VxRail on nex- generation PowerEdge servers enables organizations to bring even more mission-critical, high-performance workloads to VxRail with refined simplicity, increasing organizations’ opportunities to leverage VxRail’s management, efficiency, and flexibility benefits.

Abstract

This ESG Technical Review documents hands-on evaluation of the Dell EMC PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure solution. Testing was designed to illustrate how the PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure platform achieves high levels of performance, scalability, availability, and manageability.

Co-Author (s):Vinny Choinski

Introduction

This report documents ESG’s validation of Veritas NetBackup Flex Scale, a scale-out, hyperconverged data protection platform, with a focus on ease of use, scalability, and performance.

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.