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Report:The Forrester Wave™: North American Workplace Services, Q2 2013

Evaluating Leading Providers Amidst A Category Redefinition

Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Determine Your Workforce Computing Hardware Budgets For 2012

Balance Security And Efficiency With Responsible Empowerment

IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders spend nearly 25% of their IT hardware budget on workforce computing hardware. However, Forrester finds that these priorities and budgets favor security...

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Report:Market Overview: Midrange Storage, Q3 2011

Unified Storage Architectures Enable Private Cloud Environments

The storage industry is undergoing a transition. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) execs know that storage is a core component of enabling private cloud environments. But to achieve cloud...

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Report:Sizing The Cloud

Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing

Building a solid cloud computing strategy and business plan requires insights into the future market size and growth dynamics of this still complex market. In this report, Forrester provides a global...

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Report:Demand Insights: The SMB Hardware Infrastructure Market

SMBs' Plans For Servers, Storage, Virtualization, Form Factors, And Cloud Computing

Suppliers of infrastructure hardware to small and medium-size business (SMB) buyers are poised for better times, given plans by SMBs to upgrade their software and associated hardware infrastructures...

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Report:US Tech Market Outlook: Q1 2011

Building A Springboard In 2011 For Even Stronger Growth In 2012

While overall US tech market growth of 8.0% in 2011 will be a bit slower than the 8.9% growth in 2010, this year will still be a bright year for tech vendors. Yet, based on their own revenue...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2010

Some Banking Platform Vendors Mastered The 2009 Storm Smoothly

Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Considering participants of both the 2009 and 2010 surveys, deal volume of the top 10 vendors increased by...

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Report:Market Overview: European IT Infrastructure Outsourcing

Several forces are slowly transforming the stable but growing market for IT infrastructure services in Europe, including the rising profile of offshore suppliers, maturing global delivery,...

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Report:Market Overview: North American IT Infrastructure Outsourcing

IT infrastructure outsourcing (ITO) customers in North America enjoy a growing range of alternatives for services, encompassing a variety of categories including traditional outsourcers,...

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Report:2010 To 2012 Global Tech Industry Outlook

2011 Looks Like 2010, But With Software Leading Instead Of Hardware

2010 is ending with debt worries and questions about the future of the euro in Europe, doubts about the strength of the US recovery, and worries about overheated economies and higher inflation in...

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Report:US Tech Industry Outlook For 2011

Insurance Transformation Exposes Key Opportunities For Technology Vendors

The US insurance industry represents 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) and generated nearly $1 trillion in revenues in 2009, but even with that big number, premium growth has been declining for...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Updated Q4 2010: Market Overview: Backup Software-As-A-Service

The First Of Many IT Ops-Focused SaaS Offerings

It's been almost two years since we last produced this report, and during that time the vendor landscape has changed considerably; however, one constant remains true: Backup is a struggle for both...

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Report:US And Global IT Market Outlook: Q3 2010

We Forecast Slower But Still-Robust 7% To 8% Growth

US economic growth is falling short of our already modest expectations and will expand at a snail's pace of less than 2.5% for real GDP in 2010 (avoiding a double-dip recession. As a result, we have...

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Report:Capitalizing On The Sustainability Consulting Services Opportunity

A $9.6 Billion Market In 2015 — Service Providers Helping Clients Tackle The Next Driver Of Business Innovation And Growth

Sustainability is emerging as the next driver of business innovation and growth for many companies, driven by rising regulatory and customer pressures, the need to enhance their brands, and...

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Report:Lessons From Wall Street's I&O Leaders: Three Ways To Boost Server Infrastructure Results

Grow Vendor Management, Expand Shortlists, And Test Integrated Infrastructure

Forrester's recent interviews of I&O executives at top Wall Street firms yielded several counterintuitive insights. The most surprising? First, that tier two server vendors can now deliver the same...

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Report:The Age Of Computing Diversity

The ICT Industry Is Broadening Out From The Wintel Monoculture

The computing industry is exiting an era built mostly on general-purpose, good enough central processing units (CPUs), servers, systems designs, software, Web apps, and client devices. These...

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Report:Competitive Analysis: Application Performance Management And Business Transaction Monitoring

A SWOT Analysis Of APM And BTM Software Vendors

IT and business services have grown exponentially in size, diversity, and complexity over the past few years. The complexity of many transactional business services has reached a point where the...

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Report:Systems Integration Spend Rebounds In 2010

Sourcing Execs Must Drive Successful Vendor Selection, Governance, And Pricing

Forrester's Q2 2010 survey of more than 2,800 IT services buyers across the globe shows that firms are again investing in more strategic initiatives, with IT strategy consulting and systems...

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Report:The Coming Upheaval In Tech Services

Four Economic And Technology Factors Will Combine To Recast The Business

The tech services market is about to undergo a massive transformation that will call traditional provider business models into question. Four factors will combine to dramatically change the dynamics,...

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Report:US And Global IT Market Outlook: Q2 2010

Despite Financial Market Jitters, 8% 2010 Global ICT Market Growth Is On Track

Financial markets in Q2 2010 have been shaken by fears that the Greek debt crisis will metastasize across the European Union (EU) and beyond. Nevertheless, Q1 demand data was strong; we continue to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Focus Your I&O Budget On Three Key Initiatives

Fifty Percent Of Your I&O Budget Should Go To Three New Initiatives Supporting Business Expansion: Desktops, Data Centers, And Industrialized Operations

I&O needs to focus the second half of 2010's budget on growth. Why? Because nearly half of the IT operating and capital budget is being set aside for new IT initiatives and increasing capacity to...

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Report:Competitive Analysis: Morocco

These are the data tables for the report, "Morocco Industry Opportunity." The report provides a comprehensive overview for vendor strategists of vertical industries in Morocco in order to address...

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Report:Qatar IT Spending By Vertical

These are the data tables for the report, "Qatar Industry Opportunity." The report provides a comprehensive overview for vendor strategists of vertical industries in Qatar in order to address market...

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Report:Morocco IT Spending By Vertical

These are the data tables for the report, "Morocco Industry Opportunity." The report provides a comprehensive overview for vendor strategists of vertical industries in Morocco in order to address...

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Report:Algeria IT Spending By Vertical

These are the data tables for the report, "Algeria Industry Opportunity." The report provides a comprehensive overview for vendor strategists of vertical industries in Algeria in order to address...

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