Exploring Data Center Networking
As organizations continue to consolidate data centers and increase their use of server virtualization technology, IT departments are forced to respond by building out massively scalable data center network environments. However, are data center networks evolving fast enough to survive (in current form) in a rapidly changing world? Jon Oltsik called this problem Data Center [...]
For a number of years ESG has been conducting an annual IT spending survey to better understand users’ buying intentions for the coming year. The ESG research team is busy putting the final touches on the 2012 IT Spending Intentions Survey, which should be ready at the end of January, but I’ve taken a look [...]
For quite some time virtual desktops have been growing in popularity, first as a means to effectively deliver desktops for call centers, support desks, etc., and now it has become an increasingly popular strategy for dealing with an ever growing “bring your own device to work” problem. That is, how does your IT staff support the [...]
The connected world means a fully networked world, which is great – unless there is a problem. And typically when there is a problem, the network gets blamed. How many times have you heard the network is down, the network is slow, lost my internet connection and so on?  By playing a greater role in connecting everything [...]
Riverbed recently announced a significant enhancement to its Riverbed Optimization System, or RiOS, to better address several of the emerging needs for WAN optimization. Ultimately, upgrades like this represent how WAN optimization vendors are evolving their solutions to support a wider range of technologies and environments. Specifically the RiOS 7 provides additional support for Video, Virtual Desktops, [...]
As data growth continues unabated, organizations are finding it more difficult to effectively manage their environments. ESG’s annual spending survey reinforces that notion as respondents cited managing data growth as their number two IT priority, second only to increasing use of server virtualization. With regard to managing data growth, a separate survey revealed that the [...]
While Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, 20th Century Fox), Enterprise IT prefer their application deployment models to be centralized (no movie yet). According to ESG research, when asked about the preferred method of application deployment (for a variety of application types) to support remote and branch offices, the overwhelming majority (70+%) of organizations surveyed responded that they preferred that [...]
While watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade today, I was reflecting on all the things I am thankful for this year. While I am of course most thankful for my family, my friends, and all my co-workers, there are a few things from an IT perspective that I am thankful for, including: Big Data – Why [...]
The trend to leverage mobile computing devices for business purposes is rapidly increasing. I can remember joining ESG five years ago and I was the only person in the company with a Blackberry. Now just about everyone in the company has at least one mobile computing device, if not several. For many, the reason to [...]
Working in a remote or branch office can have its challenges: you don’t have direct access to the executive team, there’s probably no corporate cafeteria, and you definitely miss out when those emails that say “leftover brownies in the kitchen” go out to the whole company ! One of the bigger and perhaps more important challenges arises when organizations decide to [...]
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