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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...

Maturing Solutions Allow Integrated Physical Management Of The Data Center
This report is part of the data center infrastructure playbook and should be read by IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals. Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is a...

Continuation Of Old Trends And A Few Disruptions
This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations executives working on data center infrastructure. This report is designed to help you build a road map for 2012. Looking at...

Oracle's Actions Punish Customers And Drive Migration To Linux
Vendor acquisitions and strategy shifts continue to disrupt the world of enterprise IT. Few, however, have been as disruptive and one-sided in their impact as the recent decision by Oracle to...

New Modular Servers, Converged Fabrics, And Virtualization Will Reshape Your x86 Infrastructure
From their origins as "PCs with the display cut off," x86 servers have undergone a steady evolution in capabilities and performance, driven by a combination of semiconductor technology and system...

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...