Evaluator Group Inc. is dedicated to helping IT professionals and vendors create and implement strategies that make the most of the value of their storage and digital information. Evaluator Group services deliver in-depth, unbiased analysis on storage architectures, infrastructures and management for IT professionals.

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Evaluator Group Products, Services
& Subscription Plans
For IT Professionals and Vendors

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Our Customer’s Issues..
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“I need to understand
what is relevant to our
environment”
“It is very time consuming
trying to understand the
differences of how things work"
“I don’t have time
to meet with every
vendor, just the
relevant ones"
“The internet is fast, but
difficult determining the
relevant technical data.”
“We need the ability to
have outside, unbiased
comparison data.”

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A Few of Our Customers
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What They Say..
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“Evaluator Group research gives us
quick access and perspectives. Other
sources of information are not technical
enough .”
--- Top 10 Insurance Company
Evaluator Group pointed out both the pros and
the cons of these systems. This will allow for
much better decision making." -- Top Telco

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ESR Research
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Technology Segments
Entry, Mid, High End SAN
Entry, Mid, High End NAS
Solid State New & Adapted
Design
Object Storage
Storage Virtualization & SDS
Data Analytics
Archive Systems
Archive Software
Data Protection: Dedup / VTL
Storage Resource Management
& Networking
Virtual SAN
Hyper-Converged
Storage Performance Series
Storage Efficiency Series
Comparison Matrices
Product Analysis (deep dive)
Product Briefs (short review)
Evaluation Guides & Workbooks
Education Guides
Industry Insights
Lab Validations/Performance
View All Evaluator Series Research

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Advanced Storage Education
2.5 Days, IT End Users, Vendors, and Channel Partners
Developing the Storage Strategy and Understanding the
Technologies
Deep Dive on Products and Their Capabilities
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Finally a conference that tells facts.
This conference paid for itself in the
first day. Great information - all up-
to-date and current.
-- University Healthcare Institution

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Core Offerings for IT Clients

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Core Offerings for Vendor Clients

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Research Subscriptions
Premium
— Access to research (Individual to Worldwide)
— Class seats
— IOmark-VM or VDI license
— Analyst inquiry time (Phone or In-Person)
Unbundled
— Access to all Product Briefs plus set number of premium
documents
 Comparison Matrices
 Product Analysis
 Evaluation Guides
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Custom Development Projects
 Outside of subscriptions, we also work on custom
development for end-users and vendors.
 Past projects include:
— Performance Testing
— TCO Modeling
— Sales Guides
— Speaking Engagements, Webinars, and Videos
— Whitepapers
— Competitive Support Documents

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Workload Analysis Performance & Validations
 Independent Industry Performance Testing
— Focus on Workloads
 Real workload traces
 Custom performance characterization
 Load generation for capacity planning
 Tool vs replay
— Virtual Desktop – cost per desktop
— Virtual Machines – cost per virtual machine
— Object - exploring concept
 Use of IOmark as a workload performance tool for
end user
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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Modeling
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Go to Market Support: Creating Conversations
Content for Sales Guides…
Content for Scripts,
Competitive Review…
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Introduction
They are looking for:
1. The best way to get out more of their
storage investment yet support the
scalable environment
2. Enable more server virtualization while
increasing the number of VM’s per
physical server
Qualifying the Call
1. Are you currently using server
virtualization?
2. Have you reached your goal of % of
servers virtualized?
3. As you continue to scale out your server
environment have you looked at how to
increase the number of VM’s per physical
machine without adding additional
storage? ……………………………..

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Want to learn more about our
subscription plans or custom
development opportunities?
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