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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Green IT, Q4 2010

When building their green IT strategy, Forrester's IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) clients look for insight from multiple sources — including their peers. Forrester analyzed 146 green...

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Report:Role Job Description: The Green IT Manager

To Maximize Value, I&O Leaders Must Hire Green IT Managers Now

Most firms lack a comprehensive green IT strategy to deliver the consistent, repeatable, and measurable results that infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders expect. To turn this situation around,...

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Tool:The Energy Savings Potential From Improving Your Virtualization Processes

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Report:Smart Grid Q&A: Unveiling The New Grid

Understanding The Smart Grid Ecosystem And Its Risks

Smart grid is the counterpart of the "cloud" in the utility world — everyone is talking about it. You can define smart grid in many ways, but simply put, it is the digitization of the power...

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Tool:Servers Consume A Significant Amount Of Total Data Center Energy Consumption

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Tool:Power Consumption Of An HP ProLiant DL585 G5 At Various Utilization Levels

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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:Does Your CEO Care About Green IT? Not If You’re Stuck In The Data Center

To quote Forrester’s CEO and Founder, George Colony, during his keynote at Forrester’s IT Forum EMEA event: “CEOs only care about two things: revenue growth and...

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Blog:Is IT Infrastructure & Operations Still Relevant In “The Age Of The Customer”?

Yes, but you must adapt by demonstrating your ability to drive business growth and differentiation, not just cost savings and uptime. Here’s a personal example of a much broader trend as to why...

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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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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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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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Client Inquiry:Server Virtualization

What utilization and VM-to-physical host ratios does Forrester suggest for a mature server virtualization initiative?

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Blog:What Is Your IT Strategy To Win In The Age Of The Customer?

Consider the following scenario: It’s a hot summer day and a prospective customer walks into your store to buy an air conditioner. He evaluates several models and then buys one — but not...

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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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Report:Cloud Computing Helps Accelerate Green IT

Take Advantage Of Public And Private Cloud To Deliver Energy, Carbon, And E-Waste Efficiencies

Cloud-based server, storage, and network infrastructure — also called infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) — will inherently deliver green IT benefits: lower energy costs, carbon emissions,...

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

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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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Blog:From The Inside Out: Building A Customer-Centric Infrastructure

Whether or not IT Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) leaders believe they are well-positioned to support customer growth, the business does. Their expectations are high, and they firmly believe that...

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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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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: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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Report:Executive Spotlight: Top Priorities For IT Infrastructure & Operations Leaders, 2H 2011

Insights From The Forrester IT Infrastructure & Operations Council

Every six months, Forrester fields a survey to members of its IT Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) Council to ascertain their top priorities for the following six months. Forrester's I&O Council...

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Tool:Model — Calculating Your Green IT Baseline

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Blog:To Better Compete Into 2012, Infrastructure And Operations Leaders Must Do Things Differently

As the saying goes, “If you’re not different from your competition, by definition you can’t be better.” IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders should take this to...