DCIG Buyer's Guides
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DCIG 2012 ECA Software Buyer's Guide
The DCIG 2012 ECA Software Buyer's Guide weights, scores and ranks more than 60 key features of more than 25 ECA Software products from more than 20 of the leading ECA software products providers. These systems are given classifications of Basic, Good, Excellent and Recommended. This 90-page report offers all the information an organization should need to make a highly informed decision as to what ECA Software product is the right fit for an organization's growing discovery and investigative.To download this Buyer's Guide in its entirety, please click here.
DCIG Interactive Buyer's Guide
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everything and provides monthly updates on product features.Briefs can be produced in under five minutes. Below are two examples of DCIG Interactive Buyer's Guide Briefs.
- Single product Buyer's Guide full brief for LaCie 12big Rack Network
- Five product Buyer's Guide full brief for Arena-Maxtronic, Inc SS8801R, D-Link, inc. DSN-3400-10, Drobo B800fs, Huawei Symantec Oceanspace S2600 and iStoragePro Fibre Subsystem
- Five product comparison Buyer's Guide brief of Storage Network Connectivity and Availability
DCIG 2012 BIG Data Tape Library Buyer's Guide
The DCIG 2012 Big Data Tape Library Buyer's Guide weights, scores and ranks over 140 features on over 60 enterprise tape libraries. These systems are given classifications of Basic, Good, Excellent, Recommended and Best-in-Class. This 95-page report offers all the information an organization should need to make a highly informed decision as to what enterprise tape library is the right fit an enterprise's growing Big Data and Cloud storage needs in one place.
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DCIG 2012 Midrange Array Buyer's Guide
The updated DCIG 2012 Midrange Array Buyer's Guide weights, scores and ranks over 90 capabilities and features on over 50 midrange arrays. These midrange storage arrays are given classifications of Basic, Good, Excellent, Recommended and Best-in-Class. This 86-page report offers all the information an organization should need to make a highly informed decision as to what midrange array is the right fit for each organization to meet its growing data storage requirements. This year's Buyer's Guide also includes an in-depth look at how each midrange array integrates with and supports VMware.
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DCIG 2011 Enterprise Scale-Out Storage Buyer's Guide
The DCIG 2011 Enterprise Scale-Out Storage Buyer's Guide weights, scores and ranks over 70 capabilities and features on twenty (20) enterprise scale-out storage systems. These systems are given classifications of Basic, Good, Excellent, Recommended and Best-in-Class. This 43-page report offers all the information an organization should need to make a highly informed decision as to what enterprise scale-out storage system is the right fit an enterprise's growing archival, backup and unstructured storage needs in one place.
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DCIG 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer's Guide
The DCIG 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer's Guide analyzes, scores and ranks over 70 features on more than 30 midrange deduplication appliances. These appliances are given classifications of Basic, Good, Excellent, Recommended and Best-in-Class. This 62-page report offers all the information an organization should need to make a highly informed decision as to what deduplicating appliance is the right fit for their backup environment in one place.
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DCIG 2011 Midrange Array Snapshot Software Buyer's Guide
The DCIG 2011 Midrange Array Snapshot Software Buyer's Guide is the perfect complement to the previously released DCIG 2010 Midrange Array Buyer's Guide and the forthcoming DCIG 2012 Midrange Array Buyer's Guide. This report weights, scores and ranks the snapshot feature on models from 18 midrange array product lines with snapshot features on each product line given the classification of "Best-in-Class," "Recommended," "Excellent," "Good" and "Entry Level." This 44-page report offers all of the information that an organization should need to make a highly informed decision as to which midrange array snapshot software is the right solution to protect their rapidly growing virtual desktop and server environments.
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DCIG 2011 Small Enterprise Storage Array Buyer's Guide
The Extended Edition of the DCIG 2011 Small Enterprise Storage Array Buyer's Guide analyzes, scores and ranks over 50 features from more than 30 small enterprise storage products that are priced from $5,000 - $30,000. Small enterprise storage array products are given classifications of "Basic," "Good," "Excellent," "Recommended" and "Best-in-Class." This 48-page report offers all of the information an organization should need to make a highly informed decision as to what small enterprise storage array is right for their environment. To read this Buyer's Guide in its entirety, click here.
DCIG 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide
The 2011 DCIG Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide analyzes, scores and ranks over 130 features from more than 20 leading virtual server backup software providers. Virtual server backup software products are given classifications of Basic, Good, Excellent, Recommended and Best-in-Class. This 81-page report offers all the information an organization should need to make a highly informed decision as to what backup software is right for their virtual server environment in one place. To read this Buyer's Guide in its entirety, click here.
DCIG 2010 Midrange Array Buyer's Guide
The 2010 DCIG Midrange Array Buyer's Guide is the first-ever comprehensive report to weigh, score and rank over 70 midrange data storage arrays from more than 20 different providers. Storage solutions are given classifications of Entry Level, Good, Excellent and Recommended. The 105-page report offers all the information an organization should need to make a highly informed decision on what storage solutions are right for them in one place. To read this Buyer's Guide in its entirety, click here.
SMBs need a true data protection solution that is cost-effective and provides ease of implementation and management. To meet these demands, RDX technology from Imation are now available that combine the best features of both disk and tape. To read more, click here.
Seven Keys to Selecting the Right Storage Architecture for Enterprise VDI Deployments
The conversation around desktop virtualization at the enterprise level is changing as technology advances coupled with dramatic price declines have made it practical and affordable for corporations to virtualize of their corporate desktops. But as this occurs, enterprises need to carefully weigh what type of storage architecture they choose to support their VDI deployment. This white paper goes over the seven keys to selecting the right storage architecture for enterprise VDI deployments. To read this white paper in its entirety, click here.
The success of a server virtualization implementation within a business is inextricably linked and may even be determined by the networked storage solution that the business selects to support it. It is for that reason that when a business discusses its server virtualization deployment strategy that it needs to make a flexible storage solution such as the IBM N series an integral part of that conversation. To read this white paper in its entirety, click here.
Accelerating the Adoption of Public Storage Clouds by Enterprise Organizations
Public storage clouds are viewed less than favorably by enterprise organizations even though many of them foresee adopting public storage clouds in the not-too-distant future. Changing that viewpoint requires that service providers bring forward public storage cloud offerings that posses seven key attributes that will sway the opinion of enterprise decision makers and prompt them to adopt public storage clouds sooner rather than later. To read this white paper in its entirety, click here.
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