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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: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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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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Tool:Printer Consolidation And PC Power Management Top Green Initiatives In Distributed IT

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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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Report:Focus Your IT Infrastructure And Operations On Customer Obsession, Not Just Cost Savings

In the age of the customer, only the customer-obsessed will survive. That's why your business is prioritizing revenue and customer growth over cost-cutting in 2011. But is your IT infrastructure and...

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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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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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Blog:Forrester In Your News: Browser Wars, BYOD (again!), x86 Servers, Disaster Recovery, Mobile Engagement . . .

If IBM is thinking about exiting the server business, why should you in enterprise IT stay in it? If BYOD accelerates browser diversity, how will you develop and support corporate apps...

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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:Technology Priorities Focus On Consolidating IT Infrastructure And Improving BC/DR

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

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Blog:The Evolution Of Green IT: A Forrester Video Series, Part 1

[Scroll down to view Forrester’s “The Evolution Of Green IT” video… don’t worry, it’s only 3:30 minutes.] At Forrester, we’re always exploring new ways to...

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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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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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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:I&O Professionals Should Weave Green IT Practices Into Infrastructure Investments

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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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Client Inquiry:What Are The Business Benefits Of Green IT Or Sustainable IT Programs?

What are the business benefits of green IT or sustainable IT programs?

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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...

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Tool:Server Virtualization Trumps All Other Green Data Center Activities

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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...