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Infrastructure Management
Includes Security, SRM, Cloud, ICM, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Database Appliances, NFM, Storage Management.
This section covers all forms of technologies that impact IT infrastructure management. Taneja Group analysts particularly focus on the interplay between server virtualization and storage, with and without virtualization, and study the impact on performance, security and management of the IT infrastructure. This section also includes all aspects of storage management (SRM, SMI-S) and the role of cross correlation engines on overall performance of an application. Storage virtualization technologies (In-band, Out-of-band, split path architectures or SPAID) are all covered in detail. Data Security, whether for data in-flight or at-rest and enterprise level key management issues are covered along with all the players that make up the ecosystems.
As databases continue to grow larger and more complex they present issues in terms of security, performance and management. Taneja Group analysts cover the vendors and the technologies that harness the power of archiving to reduce the size of active databases. We also cover specialized database appliances that have become the vogue lately. All data protection issues surrounding databases are also covered in detail. We write extensively on this topic for the benefit of the IT user.
Riverbed and EMC Deliver Capacity-Optimized Cloud Storage for Backup, Recovery, Archiving, and DR
Many innovative enterprises are turning to cloud storage to meet their data protection demands. Cloud storage promises an elastic “pay-as-you-go” storage pool for backups and archives, which not only reduces expensive up-front backup disk and tape costs, but eliminates the need to maintain them off-site. This paper explores the factors that are driving the move to cloud storage and then introduces a solution from Riverbed and EMC that enables organizations to perform cloud backup and replication at LAN-like performance that is as reliable and secure as local disk or tape at a lower cost.
TVS: Hypervisor Shootout: Maximizing Workload Density in the Virtualization Platform
Twice in 2009, Taneja Group benchmarked the performance of the leading hypervisor platforms, with an eye to understanding which offered the best virtual machine (VM) densities, and we are pleased to update our findings in this new Technology Validation report. Our testing again focused on VM Density, which is our measure of the number of VMs that can run simultaneously—executing a well-defined set of consistent application workloads—on a single hypervisor instance without disruptive performance impact (service-level breach). This time we expanded our testing to include the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (RHEL 5.5 KVM) in addition to the latest available generation of vendor hypervisors: VMware vSphere 4.1 (ESXi 4.1), Microsoft Hyper-V R2 (Hyper-V) and Citrix XenServer 5.6 (XenServer).
3PAR Storage: Tailor-Made for Virtual Infrastructures
Solution Profile discussing 3PAR's strengths relative to the requirements of virtual infrastructure users, as determined through Taneja Group MCS survey of late 2009.
TVS: EqualLogic Outperforms Competitive SANs under Heavily Virtualized Exchange 2010 Workloads
The claims of storage vendors vary widely, and this is certainly the case among iSCSI vendors, where architectures and capabilities can be very different. Dell has long claimed that the EqualLogic storage family leverages tried and true internal capabilities to deliver distinctly better ease of use and performance without requiring convoluted or time-consuming configuration efforts. And, they claim, they’ve integrated these proven capabilities into a comprehensive storage infrastructure—based on their elastic pool technology—that also delivers more scalability than their competitors. With these claims in mind, Taneja Group set out to examine Dell’s differentiation in the midst of a crowded and rapidly growing field. To do this, we performed hands-on validation of a Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN array against a leading competitive iSCSI array and a second leading Fibre Channel array.
Increase IT Performance from the Enterprise to the Cloud with WAN Optimization
In our 2005 report on WAN optimization, we examined Riverbed’s unique and pioneering technology. Five years later, in the largest datacenters and most complex networks, Riverbed accelerates the greatest number of applications and protocols with the broadest range of optimization appliances and software in the industry. In this updated report, we take a fresh look at the role WAN optimization plays in today’s highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging “cloud” decade, when IT performance will be constrained, more than ever, by network performance.
Emulex Validates Server-Centric Unified Strategy
Emulex recently announced two key customer wins with HP and IBM. Both companies partnered with Emulex to provide converged network adapters for their top-selling HP ProLiant, IBM System x, and IBM BladeCenter product lines. These significant announcements validate Emulex’s server-centric strategy for converged networks.
Emulex, HP, IBM, adapter, CNA, UCNA, OneConnect