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  • Tape’s Place in an Increasingly Cloud-based IT Landscape

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    Christophe Bertrand

    Tape is back on the forefront with new use cases and possibilities. The need for unlimited and cost-conscious storage for long-term retention has never been stronger, particularly for “cold” layers of storage in public and private clouds. Hardware, software, and product usability evolutions make tape solutions an attractive option for long-term archiving, ransomware remediation, and massive storage for media or media-like applications.

    In order to gain insight into these trends, ESG surveyed 303 IT professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) personally responsible for or familiar with their organization’s data protection environment and strategy, including tape technology. The respondents’ organizations had to be current users of tape technology. This research aimed to understand the current state of enterprise tape deployments, uncover specific use cases (including vertical-specific ones), identify gaps, and highlight future expectations. Special attention was also paid to cloud use cases such as the usage of tape for long-term retention by hyperscalers, leveraging cloud-like services that use tape as a replacement for on-premises solutions and migration of tape to cloud.

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  • Tape’s Place in an Increasingly Cloud-based IT Landscape

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    Christophe Bertrand

    ESG’s Master Survey Results provide the complete output of syndicated research surveys in graphical format. In addition to the data, these documents provide background information on the survey, including respondent profiles at an individual and organizational level. It is important to note that these documents do not contain analysis of the data.

    This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on 2020 IT trends for the existing and emerging technology influencing tape usage, buying intentions of IT teams, existing challenges and drivers influencing buying decisions, and buyer preferences for changing tape topologies.

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  • 2021 Technology Spending Intentions Survey

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    Bill Lundell

    Based on a survey of 664 global IT and business professionals at enterprise and midmarket organizations, the 2021 Technology Spending Intentions Survey examines the key business and technology priorities driving 2021 spending plans across a range of technology markets including infrastructure, cloud services, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, data protection, mobility, business applications, and more.

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  • MSP Partner Landscape 2020

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    Enterprise Strategy Group

    ESG’s Master Survey Results provide the complete output of syndicated research surveys in graphical format. In addition to the data, these documents provide background information on the survey, including respondent profiles at an individual and organizational level. It is important to note that these documents do not contain analysis of the data.

    This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on 2020 MSP landscape best practices and actions; standout vendor offerings, programs, and support; and differences between small and larger partners.

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  • Data Protection Predictions for 2021

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    Christophe Bertrand

    No one could have predicted the COVID-19 pandemic and the profound impact it has had on our lives, our society, the way we now work, how we market our products, and the ripple effects on IT infrastructure and data in general. This once-in-a-lifetime event is placing data protection at the top of many lists, something that our research highlighted in 2020 and, looking ahead to 2021, will directly affect IT strategies against a backdrop of accelerated digital transformation/optimization.

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  • Data Protection Trends and Strategies for Containers

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    Christophe Bertrand

    Container adoption is accelerating and so too is the requirement to properly protect container environments and the data in them. ESG research indicates that, so far, IT professionals are kicking the can down the road. While many recognize the growing importance of containers relative to other vital application platforms, confidence levels in organizations’ ability to protect containerized workloads are lagging. As was the case with other recent disruptive shifts in the IT landscape, including the VMware and cloud computing phenomena, newer data protection approaches are needed.

    In order to gain insight into these trends, ESG surveyed 334 IT professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) personally responsible for or familiar with their organization’s container-based application environment and strategy, including the associated data protection tools and processes.

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  • Data Protection Considerations for Containers

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    Christophe Bertrand

    ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of IT professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) between June 12, 2020 and June 24, 2020. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be IT professionals responsible for/familiar with their organization’s container-based application environment strategy.

    This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on understanding the current state of end-users’ application and container deployments, identifying data management gaps, and determining current practices and potential disconnects that may exist when protecting Kubernetes/ containers infrastructure at scale.

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  • Get Ready for the Hybrid Cloud Data Warehousing Surge

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    Mike Leone

    GettyImages-1192823232Data warehouse modernization has become an essential move to meet the demands of the modern business. And it is easy to get lost in the hype when it comes to modernizing with a “cloud-first” or “cloud-only” approach. Organizations are drawn to the promise of ultra-simplicity, unlimited scale, improved agility, and ubiquitous accessibility. But for some organizations that are on this path, they are starting to see the tradeoffs they have made. One of those tradeoffs comes with price/performance. Not that modern cloud data warehouses do not perform well, but if you want the low-latency performance to truly support real-time, you will either have to pay for it (especially at scale as more end-users want access to the data) or minimize your ability to truly achieve real-time responsiveness. And it is forcing organizations to rethink their cloud data warehouse strategies. Maybe an on-premises data warehouse does have a place? And so does a cloud data warehouse?

    While several traditional on-premises data warehouses now have cloud services to enable hybrid cloud data warehousing, many still leverage their vintage architectures that were designed around a rigid on-premises pipeline process derived long before the hybrid cloud technologies of today existed. Release after release has resulted in improved capabilities, but at the expense of trading off functionality for added complexity, and with less-than-ideal levels of performance, cost, and agility.

    One of the vendors I have been watching emerge in this modern, hybrid cloud data warehouse space is Yellowbrick. This is a company that natively designed its data warehouse for hybrid cloud, promising the best of both on-prem and cloud data warehousing worlds. Customers get the high performance and concurrency of specialized on-premises systems, while also gaining the agility, scalability, and simplicity of cloud-only solutions. Yellowbrick can be consumed as a service anywhere with the same data and performance everywhere—either on-premises/in a private cloud, through any public cloud, or a combination of both. And here’s the kicker: organizations don’t have to make a trade-off of performance or cost. ESG recently completed an economic study of Yellowbrick Data Warehouse to quantify the low and predictable cost savings through their fixed-cost annual subscription.

    Hybrid cloud data warehousing will be critical going forward. Whether you are an organization looking to move traditional data warehousing workloads to the cloud or a company that started with a cloud data warehouse whose bills are starting to rise as performance demands increase, it may be worth evaluating (or re-evaluating) your options.

  • 2021 Technology Spending Intentions Survey

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    Enterprise Strategy Group

    This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on 2021 IT budget expectations, technology initiatives and priorities, year over year spending change (overall and by different technologies), cloud adoption/usage trends, as well as an update on the status of COVID-19 driven work from home initiatives and efforts.

    ESG’s Master Survey Results provide the complete output of syndicated research surveys in graphical format. In addition to the data, these documents provide background information on the survey, including respondent profiles at an individual and organizational level. It is important to note that these documents do not contain analysis of the data.

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  • Keep an Eye on IBM Cloud

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    Christophe Bertrand

    GettyImages-1177391988I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with the IBM Cloud team on a couple of projects and met with some great professionals with significant expertise in disaster recovery and data protection in general. The IBM Cloud team leverages a number of partners in its ecosystem and IBM services.  As the title of this short post indicates, keep an eye on IBM Cloud, as they have built and are working on furthering a great platform for BC/DR. 

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  • HYCU Does It Again

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    Christophe Bertrand

    cloud-capabilitiesI wonder when people sleep at HYCU! I have been tracking the company for 2.5 years, and it’s been innovating and introducing new solutions at a very nice clip, demonstrating focused execution.

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  • Real-world SLAs and Availability Requirements

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    Christophe Bertrand

    Data protection technologies and processes mean nothing unless objectives are not only established and aligned with business and IT objectives, but also measured and improved over time. As organizations increasingly shift to more hybrid and data-intelligent infrastructures, understanding real-world data protection and availability SLAs is becoming more critical for both IT practitioners and the vendors that provide supporting technology.

    In order to gain insight into these trends, ESG surveyed 378 IT professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) personally responsible for or involved in data protection technology and process decisions for their organizations, specifically those pertaining to the ability to meet SLAs associated with applications/workloads. This research aimed to understand the current state of end-users’ deployments, identify gaps, and highlight future expectations. Tolerance for downtime, downtime metrics, and real-world SLAs in the context of actual data loss were studied against the backdrop of availability technologies and methods, including hybrid environments.

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