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Report:Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? An Infrastructure And Operations Analysis

Rethinking Where Your Email Lives And Who's Managing It

There isn't much that hasn't already been said about the criticality of email in business today — but the cost of hosting and managing your own email infrastructure is probably reaching the...

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Report:Thinking About Desktop Virtualization? Rethink Your Windows Licensing Strategy

As a desktop operations professional, you've managed to avoid getting down in the weeds with Microsoft licensing — unfortunately, times have changed. Desktop virtualization is forcing desktop...

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Report:Market Overview: Cloud-Based Email Vendors

A Look At The Players And The Criteria You Should Use To Differentiate Them

Infrastructure and operations executives have shown a tremendous interest in the cloud to provision email and collaboration services to their employees. Why? Cloud-based email and collaboration can...

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Report:Case Study: Learning From GlaxoSmithKline's Cloud-Based Email Decision Process

How GlaxoSmithKline Decided To Move To Microsoft Online Services

GlaxoSmithKline is moving approximately 90,000 email users to Microsoft's Exchange Online, a cloud-delivered service. To make the decision, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) went through a rigorous internal...

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Report:Solving SharePoint Infrastructure Problems

Examining The Challenges, Solutions, And Partner Ecosystem Surrounding SharePoint

SharePoint has achieved great success, but as organizations shine a bright spotlight on it they also reveal some of its nasty little challenges. Building it, running it, and even licensing it can be...

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Report:Exchange 2010 — An Upgrade Worth Considering

Better Back End, Basic Archiving, And Bigger Mailboxes Lead The Benefits List

Email is business dial tone. Whether on computers or smartphones, email is the most popular application. And Microsoft Exchange is a popular choice for business email. Microsoft's recent release of...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Active Directory Management Solutions, Q4 2007

NetPro And Quest Software Lead, With NetIQ Close Behind

Forrester evaluated leading Active Directory management solution vendors across 82 criteria and found that Quest Software and NetPro lead in Active Directory management. Quest provides the most...

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Report:Q&A: Licensing Microsoft Cloud Services

How Sending Your Infrastructure Into The Cloud Impacts Microsoft Licensing

Microsoft communication and collaboration customers are at a crossroads. How should they handle Exchange and SharePoint — keep running it themselves and try to manage the costs, or ship it off...

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Report:X86 Server Virtualization For High Availability And Disaster Recovery

How x86 Server Virtualization Affects Business Resiliency

To date, the primary driver behind the adoption of server virtualization has been consolidation. But as enterprises gain experience with the technology, additional uses and benefits are surfacing....

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Corporate Email, Q1 2009

Corporate email is a hot topic, and Forrester has received more than 130 inquiries on the topic from IT professionals within the past year. Email impacts several parts of IT, from the infrastructure...

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Report:Protecting Email With The Cloud

How Cloud Services Can Play A Role In Message Continuity And Recovery

Ensuring that your users can access email and keep business moving in the event of a disaster is critical, but it can be complex and costly. Traditional methods carry heavy facility, hardware,...

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Report:Learn From Those Who Have Made The Leap To Cloud-Based Email

Solid Preparation And Proper Pilots Lead To Successful Migrations

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) chiefs at companies large and small are beginning to entrust their email to Google, IBM, Microsoft, and other hosters. Migrating email — a business-critical...

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Report:Q&A: SharePoint's Licensing Complexities

Licensing SharePoint, And How Federation And Virtualization Play A Role

Microsoft's SharePoint continues to spread like wildfire, making it difficult for IT to respond with efficient ways to deploy and manage it. SharePoint is a component in Microsoft's broader...

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Report:Trimming The Fat From Exchange

Strategies To Consolidate Resources Dedicated To Running Microsoft Exchange Server Infrastructure

Consolidation is top of mind for many IT managers, and a portly email infrastructure is a ripe target to put on a diet. Business factors such as mergers and acquisitions and technical factors such as...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Cloud-Based Email, Q3 2009

Interest in cloud-based email is rapidly rising. The promise of reducing operational costs and refocusing on their core competencies has many Forrester customers asking about the cloud. Cloud-based...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Microsoft Licensing, Q4 2008

Of the more than 20,000 inquiries Forrester receives annually, a very regular stream comes from IT operations professionals and sourcing and vendor management teams about Microsoft licensing —...

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Report:Aligning Your VMware Licensing Strategy With Your Broader Virtualization Plans

It's not easy for enterprises evaluating their licensing options with VMware. In addition to worrying about the mechanics of how an enterprise licensing agreement (ELA) fits with your internal...

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Report:Peer Adoption: The State Of Server Virtualization

This data chart examines the usage and trends of server virtualization in enterprises today as well as the motivations that drive adoption.

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Report:Untangling Windows Server Licensing Issues

Windows Server 2008, formerly code-named Longhorn, is finally out in the wild. The new version delivers enhancements in virtualization, manageability, and security that will entice firms to the new...

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Report:Case Study: What Enterprises Can Learn From Universities' Cloud-Based Hybrid Email

Faced with escalating costs in providing email and rising student needs, schools are looking for a better way than going it alone. Educational institutions like St. John's University and Hinds...

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Report:Is Hyper-V For You?

Answering Questions Related To, And Examining The Benefits And Gaps Of, Microsoft's Server Virtualization Solution

Although VMware has significant mind and wallet share in organizations' server virtualization plans, and some show an interest in Xen, many of the servers out there run a Microsoft server OS —...

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Report:Measuring The Cloud's Impact On Corporate Email

There is a significant amount of cost, complexity, and attention required to maintain corporate email on premise -- and firms are looking for a better way. The cloud offers the promise of simplifying...

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Report:What Does Windows Server 2008 Mean To My Organization?

Microsoft's server operating systems hold a majority stake in enterprise data centers. According to Forrester's Business Technographics® May 2006 North American And European Enterprise...

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Report:How To Connect Your Mobile Workforce To Cloud-Based Email

Interest in cloud-based email is mounting as pressures for IT infrastructure and operations professionals (I&O) to manage and secure smartphones and tablets for an increasingly mobile workforce are...

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Report:Case Study: Lionbridge Uses Virtualization To Reclaim Its Data Center

Microsoft Hyper-V's Maturation In Windows Server 2008 R2 Yields Improvements

Microsoft Windows Server is ubiquitous in corporate data centers, but its server virtualization solution, Hyper-V, a feature of the operating system (OS), has faced an uphill battle in capturing...

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