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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Strategic Benchmarks 2013: IT Infrastructure

Benchmarks: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrsights: IT Budgets And Priorities In 2013

Mobility And Analytics Drive Spending Growth Despite Business Pessimism

What are the 2013 budget plans and priorities for CIOs and other IT decision-makers? Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 provides insight on the 2013 tech buying...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Capacity Management And Planning Tools In 2013

Reap The Agility And Financial Benefits From Emerging Infrastructure

The emergence of inexpensive server technology and cloud infrastructure has caused many IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals to simply dismiss the need for accurate workload and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Seven Business Technology Resiliency Lessons Learned From Superstorm Sandy

Key Takeaways That Can Help You Strengthen Your Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Plans

In late October 2012, Superstorm Sandy barreled through the Caribbean and the eastern US, affecting almost half of the states in the US. The storm left millions without access to basic...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Top 15 Trends S&R Pros Should Watch: Q2 2013

From frantic security operations problems to the changing threat landscape, CISOs, senior security leaders, and other IT risk management leaders consistently have trouble keeping up with key trends...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Elevate Your Business Technology Resiliency Program With An In-Depth Strategic Plan

Strategic Plan: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to develop their business technology (BT) resiliency strategic plan. A well-documented strategic plan is...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Enhance Business Technology Resiliency With An Effective Crisis Communication Strategy

Communication: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

Year after year, when asked to name the top lessons learned from contingency plan invocations, organizations consistently cite that they underestimated how difficult it would be to communicate...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Server And Data Center Predictions For 2013

This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on data center infrastructure. This report is designed to help you build a road map for 2013. As...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Develop A Strategy To Transform Your IT Infrastructure And Operations Practice

Strategic Plan: The I&O Practice Playbook

The writing is on the wall: As-a-service technology, tech-savvy workers, and increased business complexity are widening the gap between business demand and traditional IT supply. This era is making...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Master The Eight Disruptors That Will Transform Business Technology Resiliency In 2013

Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Join Forces Across IT And The Business For A Successful BT Resiliency Program

Organization: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

Who? What? Where? When? How? It's the question of "who?" that often stymies infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals when it comes to business technology (BT) resiliency programs. Who is...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Networking Hardware, Q1 2013

Distinct Competencies Separate The Core Vendors

In Forrester's 85-criteria evaluation of vendors that offered data networking solutions, Forrester identified eight significant solution providers in this category — Alcatel-Lucent, Arista...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:IT Industry Disruptions Fuel Renewed Asia Pacific Market Growth

Forrester's 2013 Predictions For Asia Pacific

2013 will be a transformative year for IT adoption in Asia Pacific (AP); multiple IT trends will converge to drive industry disruptions and help spur renewed growth in IT spending. Overall, we...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For Risk Management Professionals: GRC, Q4 2012

Road Map: The Governance, Risk, And Compliance Playbook

The governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) technology market is one of fluctuation, confusion, and contention. Many technologies relevant for governance, risk management, and compliance...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The Data Center Services Market In Japan, 2013 To 2016

Providers Must Address Energy Efficiency And Governance To Thrive

Over the past 18 months, all of the significant data center players in the Japanese market -- telcos, vendors, service providers, and systems integrators (SIs) -- have been aggressively investing in...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:The Software-Defined Data Center Is The Future Of Infrastructure Architecture

Vision: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

Over the last two decades, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams have been in a race with complexity. As business requirements have mounted, generations of technology have been implemented to...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Managed Hosting: Still Relevant Despite Cloud's Rise

Managed Hosting Remains A Viable Alternative Or Complement To The Cloud

If you've been reading the press, you could be forgiven for assuming that enterprise-class managed hosting would have transitioned entirely to the cloud by now. Yet the pace of managed hosting's...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: Managing Virtual Server Capacity

For one of the travel industry leaders and one of the largest data center operators in Europe, virtualization appeared to be the ideal solution for lowering infrastructure management costs and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Voice Of The Customer: The Good, The Bad, And The Unwieldy Of DCIM Deployments

Customers Achieve ROI, But Configuration Is More Difficult Than Expected

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is rapidly emerging as a solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals improve data center operations and management. As...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Assess Your IT Infrastructure Maturity

Assessment: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

Even though spending on server, storage, network, and facilities infrastructure consumes 50% of budgets, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders struggle to answer two critical questions: 1)...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Assess The Maturity Of Your Business Technology Resiliency Program

Assessment: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

This report provides the maturity assessment of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives looking to build their business technology (BT) resiliency strategy. We...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Forrester's IT Infrastructure Maturity Assessment

Forrester's IT infrastructure maturity assessment evaluates your current and desired state maturity across 24 key IT infrastructure elements within four top-level domains: oversight, people, process,...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: Sanofi's Successful I&O Transformation Approach

A Blueprint On How To Transform People, Process, And Technology Elements To Proactively Address Increasingly Complex Markets

In 2010, Sanofi, a large multinational in the healthcare market, embarked on a business transformation in response to increasing market complexity. Similar market complexities are affecting most...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Business Service Management: Beyond 2012

Business service management (BSM) is a way to bridge the user's view of applications and services to the IT operations' view of infrastructure; it maps business services to the components used to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Source Business Technology Resiliency Capabilities

Tools And Technology: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

When anxious executives ask you to improve or maintain business resiliency across the enterprise, it's likely that you'll need help. The skills and expertise required to stay on top of key trends,...

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