Product Evaluation Services

The IT Strategy Group offers product evaluation services that give clients a vendor-independent, highly informed opinion of which one of many available technologies can best address their business and technical challenges. We conduct each evaluation in our state-of-the art Technology Lab, where all products under consideration are thoroughly tested, with side-by-side results analyzed.

Our product evaluation services are solidly characterized by their comprehensiveness. In one recent engagement, we were asked to overview the solid-state disk marketplace. Because we are aware of all of the players in this market, we sought each out and ensured that their products were included in our technical analysis.

In a second engagement, the IT Strategy Group was asked to analyze deduplication VTL technology, which we did. We also complemented our analysis with a broader view after determining that the underlying problems our client wished to address were back-up speed and restore failures. Our consideration of adjacent products that address such problems led us to recommend hybrid storage technology, which yields significantly higher performance than deduplication VTL, at a fraction of the cost.

Our evaluation services are also characterized by their long-term viability. The IT Strategy Group strives to avoid fads, which all-to-often solve short-term technical problems but seldom represent long-term business solutions. Because we are not beholden to any third-party—vendors, editors, analysts—we are free to base our advice and recommendations on independent analysis that we judge will best benefit our clients. Our long-term view leads us to consider important factors beyond features into broader benefits including cost reduction and risk mitigation.

Fact: Our product evaluation services are based on

technical considerations in addition to visionary advice,

which considers factors such as cost and risk reduction.