Evaluator Group and Demartek Partner to Provide New Services

Evaluator Group and Demartek partner to provide in depth product analysis and Test Lab services

Denver, CO (PRWEB) January 26, 2010. Evaluator Group, Inc. and Demartek, Inc. jointly announced a partnership that will result in the delivery of in-depth lab validation and benchmarking services to Evaluator Group’s end user and vendor clients.

As Evaluator Group’s Lab Director, Dennis brings 30 years of information technology experience in software development, project management and marketing with expertise in mainframe, UNIX and windows environments. His experience expands from small to large companies such StorageTek. He is a highly respected analyst publishing and speaking for SNW and TechTarget. Today he is founder and president of Demartek, a company that provides lab validation and performance testing of storage and related hardware and software products.

Dennis Martin is a highly respected analyst and expert in the industry. I have worked with him for many years and know that he has the ability to provide a deep understanding of how things work..

Demartek’s state-of-the-art lab facilities are located in the Denver, Colorado area and include dual, quad, and Nehalem server configurations, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) testing facilities, as well as 10Gb Ethernet, 8 Gb Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity. The combined Demartek/EGI team is available to assist in testing, validation, and results analysis for virtualization, storage, and data protection environments. Targeted engagements can be structured to address differing scenarios including:

Remote replication performance
Testing of data de-duplication ratios and performance
Testing of storage configurations in virtual server environments to measure I/O performance
Validation of product functionality

“Dennis Martin is a highly respected analyst and expert in the industry. I have worked with him for many years and know that he has the ability to provide a deep understanding of how things work,” said Camberley Bates, Managing Director, Evaluator Group. “As Lab Director, his expertise combined with our team’s deep product analysis capabilities will enable us to bring very relevant and actionable data to our customers.”
“We have collaborated on projects in the past, including the evaluation of storage technology acquisitions for our vendor partners,” said Dennis Martin, CEO, Demartek. “This relationship will expand our joint ability to provide proof and validation used to make critical decisions by both end users and vendors.”

About Evaluator Group

Evaluator Group Inc. is dedicated to helping IT professionals create and implement strategies and enable companies to meet their business requirements cost effectively. As a premier storage analyst firm, Evaluator Group has continued to provide unbiased analysis for IT professionals since their inception in 1997.

About Demartek

Demartek focuses on real-world, hands-on industry analysis and lab validation testing of server, network, storage and security technologies, for the small and medium business (SMB) environment and the large enterprise. With its own on-site test lab, Demartek provides lab validation reports and vendor-neutral product comparison research reports for software and computer infrastructure products. For more information see www.demartek.com .

Press Contacts

For more information about Evaluator Group, visit http://www.evaluatorgroup.com email info@evaluatorgroup.com or phone us at 877.344.4768, or contact Jane at 303.221.7867 x1004

For more information about Demartek, visit http://www.demartek.com , or phone Dennis Martin at 303.940.7575

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