Futurum Labs

Futurum Labs, formerly known as Evaluator Group, is an IT analyst firm dedicated to delivering the industry's most in-depth and unbiased research on Information Management and data storage. We support both IT professionals and vendors with the analysis necessary to make informed purchasing and strategic decisions. The core of our expertise comes from hands-on experience in the industry. Our analysts have been integrally involved in engineering data centers, creating new storage products, building systems architectures and understanding dynamics of the purchasing process. This first-hand experience fuels our trend analysis, product investigation, and strategy work. Our product offerings include research, consultation, and education. Research includes Product Briefs & Analyses, Comparison Matrices, Whitepapers, Education Guides, and Workbooks. We hold a comprehensive Advanced Storage Education class at least once a year in the US and Europe. Our most valuable service, our analysts are available for strategic planning, competitive review, and creation of white papers and tools. We cover the following technologies: SAN Storage, NAS Storage, Solid State Storage, hyper converged, Cloud, Open Storage Platform (SDS), Storage Virtualization, Virtualization, Data Analytics, Archive, Object Storage, Data Protection and Management Software. We cover all major and secondary data storage providers, plus key upcoming vendors in new technology areas like Object Storage and Solid State. Other analyst firms exist, so how are we different? We are focused on information management and data storage technologies, and thus provide deeper and more detailed information than any of our competitors. Connect with us on www.twitter.com/futurumlabs