Validation

ESG Technical Validation: Dell EMC VxRail with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and Intel Optane SSDs

Introduction

This report documents an ESG technical audit and validation of Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) performance testing, which focused on comparisons of Dell EMC VxRail all-flash configurations with SAS SSD cache drives with Dell EMC VxRail all-flash configurations with Intel Optane SSD Cache drives servicing business-critical workloads.

Topics: Storage Converged Infrastructure

ESG Technical Review: Dell EMC Unity XT: New Architecture for Performance and Efficiency

Abstract

This report documents ESG’s audit of performance testing of the Dell EMC Unity XT All-Flash array, whose new hardware platform improves performance and efficiency.

Topics: Storage

ESG Technical Review: Simplify Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Orchestration with Veritas Resiliency Platform

Co-Author(s): Christophe Bertrand


Abstract

This ESG Technical Review documents hands-on validation of the Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP). The goal of the report is to validate that VRP, once integrated within a business’s IT environment, significantly enhances the ability of IT to support the business’s digital transformation initiatives by reducing the risk of interruptions caused by application downtime.

Topics: IT Infrastructure Data Protection Cloud Services & Orchestration

ESG Technical Validation: Predict and Optimize Business Outcomes with IBM Decision Optimization for Watson Studio and IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Introduction

ESG recently completed testing of IBM Decision Optimization for Watson Studio, which is designed to enable organizations to accelerate the value they can extract from AI more easily. Testing examined how IBM Watson Studio with Decision Optimization collects data, organizes an analytics foundation, and analyzes insights at scale—with a focus on the ease of operationalizing AI and data science to improve trust, simplify compliance, and speed monetization.

Topics: Data Platforms, Analytics, & AI Cloud Services & Orchestration hybrid cloud

ESG Technical Review: DivvyCloud Cloud and Container Security

Abstract

This ESG Technical Review of DivvyCloud cloud and container security focuses on how DivvyCloud can enable a friction-free strategy for customers to embrace the cloud in their business operations. ESG explored DivvyCloud’s extensible, multi-cloud, software-defined security and governance platform, and how DivvyCloud enables enhanced agility, decreases time to value, and provides automated security for cloud- and container-hosted workloads.

Topics: Cybersecurity Cloud Services & Orchestration