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Report:TechRadar™ For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals: Cloud Computing, Q3 2009

As Much Diversity Of Maturity Across Categories As Confusion Among Them

The No. 1 challenge in cloud computing today is determining what it really is. What categories of services exist within the definition and business model, and how ready are these options for...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Attaining And Maintaining Blazing Fast Web Site Performance

A Multidisciplinary Approach Is Key

Customers have great expectations when they visit your Web site. They increasingly want a rich, interactive experience, and their tolerance for latency is approaching zero. If you cannot achieve...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals: Cloud Computing, Q4 2011

Maturity, Acquisitions, And Enterprise Experience Drive Cloud Use Forward

With interest in and priority for investment in cloud rising, concern and challenges remain regarding what is (and isn't) a cloud computing service and which options are safe, mature choices. To help...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Deliver Cloud Benefits Inside Your Walls

Economic And Self-Service Gains Are Within Reach

While the excitement about cloud computing centers on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and other public infrastructure-as-a-service products, many enterprise infrastructure and operations...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Make The Cloud Enterprise Ready

In 2008, Forrester examined whether cloud computing was ready for the enterprise. In 2012, the answer is a definitive yes, but many enterprises aren't ready for the cloud. This report outlines the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Rightsource Your Applications For The Cloud

Build/Buy Capabilities: The Cloud Computing Playbook

CIOs frequently ask us which applications they should consider moving to the cloud or replace with cloud services. Forrester provides you with a methodology to answer this question and help you...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Justifying Your Cloud Investment: Test And Development

Improve Time-To-Market And Lighten Lab Management Burdens

It's one thing to say infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals need to invest in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing; it's quite another to justify the financial and resource...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency

Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:The State Of Infrastructure-As-A-Service Cloud Standards

Cloud adoption, particularly of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), is still in the early-adopter phase, and as a result there are no set industry standards. For IT infrastructure and operations...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:A Surprising New Java Platform Option: VMware

Acquiring SpringSource, VMware Targets Java And Clouds

VMware's ambition is to expand up the stack from its franchise in systems virtualization software into application platforms. The company's decision to buy Java frameworks specialist SpringSource is...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Don't Move Your Apps To The Cloud

Use The Cloud To Transform Them Instead

It has become conventional wisdom that leveraging cloud services will save you money. But that isn't universally true. To achieve these benefits, especially from cloud platforms...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Oracle Gets More Specific About Its Sun Plans

No Forced Migrations, But Only Some Sun Products Seem Strategic To Oracle

As the European Commission's (EC's) objections to the acquisition of Sun Microsystems continue to delay the deal, Oracle issued clarification on its intentions for Sun's technology, most notably its...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Multicore Programming Era Is Here

Vendor "Wake Up Call" On Performance Is Real; Here's What To Do

The era of multicore computing is here, and application development teams must embrace new programming approaches to reap the full performance and economic benefits of the new hardware. The new...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Perform Realistic Web Testing To Ensure Blazing Fast Web Site Performance

This workbook discusses the importance of realistic performance Web testing, what it is, and recommendations.

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Report:Case Study: How Orbitz Takes You Places Faster

Tuning Pages, Code, And Infrastructure For Performance Is The Key

In the highly competitive online travel business, the leading Web sites are under constant pressure to improve customer loyalty by delivering a richer, more interactive experience with lightning fast...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: Amylin's Strategic Rightsourcing Strategy

Amylin Shaves 15% Off Its IT Budget By Incorporating Cloud Services

To keep pace with a changing business model and rapidly changing technology demands, Amylin Pharmaceuticals had to dramatically change the way it delivered IT infrastructure services. This required...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:AP Taps Cloud To Reach Next-Generation News Consumers

News Agency Puts Content Integration API On Windows Azure To Increase Customer Reach

The Associated Press (AP), the world's oldest and largest news cooperative, provides up-to-the-minute reporting that is seen or heard by nearly half the world's population. However, changes in how we...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Strategic Rightsourcing Application Portfolio Analysis Tool

This portfolio analysis tool is based on Forrester's strategic rightsourcing methodology and client best practices and can be specifically adapted to your organization's objective of identifying...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey Results

This PowerPoint deck presents the data gathered from Forrester’s Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey.  The survey fielded 106 responses; 56% from North America; 25% from Western...

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