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Blog:Forrester In Your News: Microsoft Takes Aim At Amazon's Cloud, Windows 8 Start Button, BYOD > BYOT, Digital Disruption . . .

I write this week's "Forrester In Your News" from my apartment in Boston. Forrester's Cambridge office just across the Charles River from me is closed today, like many in the area, as...

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Client Inquiry:Apps That Consume Minimal Resources (Disk, Memory, CPU)

How can we make our applications and the data center infrastructure they run on more energy-efficient?

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Blog:Is Google Powering Its Data Centers With Wind? No, And 2010 Won't Be The Breakthrough Year For Clean Energy In The DC Either

As green IT plans persist through 2010, I'm starting to receive questions from IT infrastructure and operations professionals — particularly data center managers — about the use of...

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Tool:Server Virtualization Trumps All Other Green Data Center Activities

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Blog:Forrester In Your News: Happy Workers = Happy Customers, Windows 8, Software-Defined Data Centers, BYOT China, Mobile Shoppers

What do the top 3% of IT leaders know about workforce computing that you don’t? When will (or won’t) Windows 8 hit critical mass in enterprises? What about software-defined data centers...

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Tool:The Energy Savings Potential From Improving Your Virtualization Processes

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Report:Updated Q1 2011: Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?

Measure Your Green IT Baseline Or Risk Being Caught With Your Pants Down

Is green IT your emperor with no clothes? It is if you've invested in green IT with the promise of reducing energy costs but haven't measured your energy baseline. Without a baseline, IT leaders...

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Blog:Are You Attending Interop New York 2010? If So, Forrester Will See You There

Despite its networking roots, today’s Interop events have evolved to address an expansive range of IT roles, responsibilities and topics. While networking managers will still feel at home...

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Client Inquiry:Power Efficiency Trends In IT Equipment

Our IT division needs to provide our facilities folks with high-level IT equipment power forecasts for three, five, and 10 years out. We'd like to ask if your analysts can provide a statement...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Rebooting Your IT Infrastructure And Operations In 2011

Empower Users With Desktop Transformation, Achieve Cloud Economics In The Data Center, And Improve Productivity With Industrialized Operations

In 2011, your business views IT as a source of productivity and competitiveness more than ever. At the same time, however, it's becoming much easier for empowered employees to act on their technology...

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Blog:No “Leaders” Of Data Center Networking And Hosted Private Cloud Solutions

  Okay, I know it sounds a little dramatic… but it’s true. Over the last four months, Forrester Analysts Andre Kindness (@AndreKindness) and Lauren Nelson (@Lauren_E_Nelson)...

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Client Inquiry:How Can We Make Our Apps And The Data Center Infrastructure They Run On More Energy-Efficient?

How can we make our applications and the data center infrastructure they run on more energy-efficient?

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Blog:What BigFix Adds To IBM’s Portfolio Of Green IT Products And Services

Today, IBM announced its acquisition of BigFix, an established client and security management suite vendor. Beyond gaining BigFix’s core competencies in securing and managing client devices and...

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Blog:Rethinking Your IT Infrastructure And Operations: Q&A With Christophe Guillard, CTO Office, Sanofi

If you’re interested in how to rethink your approach to IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) to help your business better compete, I encourage you to read on . . . As I prepared for...

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Tool:Reboot I&O With Desktop Transformation, Cloud Economics, And Industrialization

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Blog:Is Disposing Of, Reselling, Or Recycling End-Of-Life IT Equipment Really Strategic To You?

Yesterday, I participated in one of the regular content planning sessions for us analysts on Forrester’s IT Infrastructure & Operation’s Research team. Similar to investment managers and...

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Blog:Despite An Affair With My iPad, I Just Can’t Give Up My Laptop. . . Yet

A year and a half ago I broke up with Blackberry and started dating iPhone. It was a clean but cruel breakup: AT&T cancelled my T-Mobile contract on my behalf, the equivalent of getting dumped by...

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Blog:Apply A “Startup” Mentality To Your IT Infrastructure And Operations

Cash-starved. Fast-paced. Understaffed. Late nights. T-shirts. Jeans. These descriptors are just as relevant to emerging tech startups as they are to the typical enterprise IT infrastructure and...

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Blog:The Evolution Of Green IT: A Forrester Video Series, Part 2

[Scroll down to view Forrester’s "The Evolution Of Green IT" video… don’t worry, it’s only ~6 minutes.] As a quick recap, part one of this video series walked through how...

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Tool:Examples Of Green IT Cost Savings Across Distributed IT

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Blog:How To Stop Your Customers From "Cheating" On You

About five months ago, I “broke up” with T-Mobile in favor of AT&T. I was a T-Mobile customer for six years on a very competitive service plan. But none of that mattered; I wanted an...

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Blog:Forrester In Your News: BYOD, Tablets, Microsoft, Death of the PC (Not), Amazon, Customers . . .

Do you remember your “Current Events” class? It was the one where there was always a pop quiz on what’s happening in the news. Think if you were in that class today and there was a...

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Blog:How GlaxoSmithKline Empowered IT Staff To Save ~$1 Million In PC Energy Costs

I recently recorded a podcast with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the global pharmaceutical company, and their success story of implementing a PC power management initiative that is expected to cut energy...

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Blog:Q&A With Charles Araujo, Author Of "The Quantum Age of IT"

Transformation: The topic of many, many conversations Forrester Analysts have with business and technology leaders everyday. But the definition and scope of transformation seems to vary widely...

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Tool:While Most IT Shops Don't Pay For Electricity, 60% Want To Improve Energy Efficiency