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Scale-out NAS Users are Leaders in Data Management

Dick Csaplar — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:49:14 +0000

In January 2012 Aberdeen surveyed 106 enterprises spanning various sectors to understand how they are managing the volume and high growth of data. From the respondents, Aberdeen identified a key storage technology that large enterprises are using to effectively manage their growing storage requirements – scale-out NAS. In April an Aberdeen report entitled “Scale-out NAS Users [...]

Four Steps to Setting the Right Budget for Downtime Prevention

Dick Csaplar — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:54:04 +0000

Datacenter downtime is an issue that continues to plague the vast majority of companies. In a survey conducted in June of 2011, only 7% of companies reported that their datacenter had 100% or 99.999% uptime(less than 5 minutes of downtime per year), meaning that 97% of companies still suffer measurable amounts of downtime each year. [...]

Network Performance is About the Applications

Jim Rapoza — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:08:06 +0000

In our Aberdeen Group reports on network and application performance, we’ve consistently found that applications are at the center of all initiatives to improve network performance.In the end, no end users really care about how the network is performing, they just want the core applications that they use to run well. That’s why it was [...]

Taking Control of Network Evolution at Interop

Jim Rapoza — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:22:49 +0000

Interop 2012 in Las Vegas starts this week and there are sure to be plenty of products and companies focused on traditional network switches, routers and data center hardware.But some of the most interesting trends to watch for this week at Interop will be from those looking for ways to improve the management and performance [...]

The 2012 Landscape of MDM Deployments

Nathaniel Rowe — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:28:13 +0000

Aberdeen’s latest “Master Data Management survey” of 163 organizations worldwide has presented a snapshot of the types of systems organizations are currently using to store and use their critical business records.Perhaps the most eye-opening finding is that forty-five percent (45%) of organizations rely on manual methods, such as spreadsheets or individual databases, to manage and [...]

Removing the Performance Management Blind-Spots Created by Clouds

Jim Rapoza — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:50:37 +0000

Cloud computing provides lots of benefits to organizations, making it possible to build application infrastructures without the need to invest in costly data centers and server farms. But cloud computing can also create new complexities, especially when it comes to managing and monitoring the performance of applications running on the cloud. In fact, in the [...]

Why Mid-Sized Companies Should Consider Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

Dick Csaplar — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:00:32 +0000

Aberdeen is tracking a shift from the use of simple public Cloud storage to a more advanced, hosted computing infrastructure, reserved for use during disaster recovery operations. Companies are increasingly renting, not just storage in the Cloud, but reserving the use of computing infrastructure to host their applications until their primary site can be brought [...]

Will Gaming Lead the Way to Better App Performance?

Jim Rapoza — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:44:23 +0000

While the importance of video gaming is often given short shrift by technologists, there’s a good chance that, without video games, we might all still be using mid-1990’s computing technology. That’s because, for a large part of the evolution of computers, advancements in processors, memory and general system performance has been driven by games. After all, word processors [...]

Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service: It Delivers

Dick Csaplar — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:36:12 +0000

Aberdeen is tracking a shift from simple cloud storage to more advanced hosted computing infrastructure, reserved for use during disaster recovery operations. Companies are increasingly renting, not just storage in the Cloud, but reservingthe use of computing infrastructure to host their applications until their primary site can be brought back up and functioning. This service [...]

Pushing Performance Improvements to All of Your Company’s Offices

Jim Rapoza — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:27:34 +0000

Businesses today are more distributed than ever. Even mid-sized companies are often supporting employees working out of dozens of offices spread across the country or even the world. And these employees need to have reliable and fast access to the business critical applicationsthat the company relies on to stay profitable and productive. In old school [...]