ESG Validation

Co-Author(s): Tony Palmer

Introduction

ESG recently completed testing of IBM Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning, which are designed to enable organizations to accelerate the value they can extract from AI more easily. Testing examined how IBM Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning collect data, organize an analytics foundation, and analyze insights at scale—with a focus on the ease of operationalizing AI and data science to improve trust, simplify compliance, and speed monetization.

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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.

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This ESG Lab Review documents our audit of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform performance testing. Tests were executed in a proof of concept environment, with comparisons to three common databases. Testing focused on performance of common queries run in the financial services industry.

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This report provides a first look at the key benefits of ForeScout’s bidirectional integration with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), with a focus on how the ForeScout Extended Module can combine ForeScout’s endpoint insight, access control, and automated response capabilities with Splunk’s correlation, analysis, and search features. This integration provides visibility into and control of managed and unmanaged endpoints while helping security teams better understand their security risk posture and respond quickly to mitigate security issues.

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ESG Lab performed hands-on evaluation and testing of the Hitachi Content Platform Portfolio, consisting of the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere (“HCP Anywhere”) online file sharing, Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI), and Hitachi Content Intelligence (HCI) data aggregation and analysis. Testing focused on integration of the platforms, global access to content, public and private cloud tiering, data quality and analysis, and the ease of deployment and management of the solution.

Background

Cloud usage is becoming a mandate within organizations looking for ways to manage data growth and improve operational efficiency, while reducing costs. The challenge for organizations is understanding how to consume cloud storage because, by itself, the cloud is often viewed as just infrastructure or a platform-as-a-service. A software layer or software-as-a-service to make cloud storage consumable and relevant to an organization’s needs and ongoing strategy is missing. The market wants an easy way to not only consume cloud storage, but also to put data in or pull it out without being locked in.

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This ESG Technical Review documents and analyzes MapR-DB performance test results. Testing evaluated the performance and scalability of MapR-DB running in the cloud, and we compare results with other leading NoSQL database offerings.

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This ESG Lab Review looks at how businesses drive outcomes with the use of Dell Technologies and Dell EMC assets. The Dell EMC assets include a turnkey platform consisting of Native Hybrid Cloud and Analytic Insights Module as part of Dell EMC Converged platforms and solutions. ESG Lab observed how Dell Technologies can empower organizations to:

• Define their approach to augmenting digital transformation with IoT (Internet of Things) and surveillance technologies with persona-driven use cases.
• Blend video-based, visual verification with IoT and enterprise data to move beyond traditional surveillance and security investigation and enhance customer experiences, identify overhead, respond to incidents, and collect evidence.
• Understand how to evaluate and extend an infrastructure for enterprise IoT—core, edge, and cloud—with data transparency and right-time intelligence.
• Accelerate maturity progression from proof of value to production, including multi-data center, mission-critical deployment.

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ESG Lab recently completed testing of Dell EMC’s Analytic Insights Module, which is designed to enable organizations to analyze and extract value from big data more easily. Testing examined how Analytic Insights Module gathers, analyzes, and acts on data—with a focus on ease of use, collaboration, time savings, data security, and simplified data integration.