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Efficiently Protect Virtual Environments with Integrated Data Protection Appliances from Dell EMC

This ESG Lab Review documents the results of extensive performance testing conducted on the Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) and a competitive server grid appliance technology solution. Testing focused on the ability of each solution to efficiently protect virtual environments at...

Purpose-Built Backup Appliances: 2019 Results and 2020 Concerns

Purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) have been foundational components to many organizations' backup/recovery infrastructure for more than a decade. The importance of PBBAs is illustrated in the numbers: According to IDC, in 2019, the data replication and protection (DR&P) market was approximately $9.2 billion,...

Current Data Protection Solutions Falling Short: Are YOU Protected?

Are you confident that your business critical data is protected? According to the recent market research Global Data Protection Index conducted by Vanson Bourne, the volume of data being managed is growing at a phenomenal rate from 1.53PB in 2016 to 9.47PB in 2018 in EMEA - but organizations are struggling with...

Sponsored by VMware

Intrinsic Security: How to Unify and Accelerate Endpoint Security Across the Enterprise

As most executives come to realize, the cloud is the way truly the only viable way for businesses to thrive. In fact, no matter what captures our attention today or next year, the path forward hangs on the promise of the cloud. Yet, with opportunities come risks. Especially when moves are made without...

Sponsored by VMware Carbon Black

USA Threat Report

This research was conducted to understand the challenges and issues facing North American businesses when it comes to escalating cyberattacks. It identifies trends in hacking and malicious attacks and the financial and reputational impact any breaches have had. In this, the VMware USA threat report, we find that...

Sponsored by Hitachi ID Systems

Enabling and Securing Remote Work: PAM & IAM

In this guide we consider the impact on IT infrastructure of abruptly transitioning large portions of an organization's workforce to telecommuting status and how identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management (PAM) systems can help with some of the challenges created by this transition.

Sponsored by VMware

Exploring Hybrid Cloud Adoption & the Complexity of Securing East-West Traffic

ESG surveyed IT decision-makers about their organizations' cloud priorities and perceptions. Based on the research, ESG shares industry viewpoints and takeaways on hybrid, multi-cloud approaches to infrastructure, as well as consistent policy enforcement and centralized control across hybrid environments. Download...

Sponsored by VMware

Five Lessons Learned from the Pivot to a Distributed Workforce

The ability to deliver continuity and scale is a hurdle to overcome when facilitating remote work. Giving a large number of end users access to corporate resources quickly is no easy task. How can organizations ensure core business systems are scaled to handle the load and how can they quickly scale up and down, on...