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Report:Server And Data Center Predictions For 2012

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...

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Report:Updated Q2 2011: Are Converged Infrastructures Good For IT?

I&O Teams Should Use Converged Infrastructure To Accelerate IaaS And Deploy Complete Application Solutions

IT pros have most of the basic ingredients to cook up their own cloud-like infrastructure or support complex applications — but there's no recipe, and many ingredients just don't combine well....

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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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Report:Market Overview: Data Center Infrastructure Management Solutions

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...

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Report:The x86 Server Grows Up And Out

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...

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Report:Develop IT Infrastructure Metrics Using The Balanced Scorecard

Performance Management: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective objectives and metrics to measure yourIT infrastructure. The process of implementing a comprehensive and useful program of...

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Report:Optimize IT Infrastructure Around Key Workloads

Landscape: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

The inside-out approach of engineers focused on technology for its own sake must stop: Your business cares about outcomes and holistic services, not server, storage, and network technologies. For too...

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Report:Updated Q3 2011: Power And Cooling Heat Up The Data Center

Green Data Centers Become A Foundation For Cloud Growth

Driven by the confluence of rising energy prices, the immense scaling of many cloud workloads, and continual pressures on IT budgets, power and cooling have become even more critical issues than they...

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Report:Avoid Tactical, Narrow IT Infrastructure Strategies

Strategic Plan: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to develop their IT infrastructure strategic plan for their facilities and the server, storage, and...

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Report:x86 Servers Hit The High Notes

x86 Servers Are A Viable Landing Place For Selected RISC/Unix Workloads

While x86 servers have been an alternative for low-end Unix workloads in recent years, two key factors, scalability and reliability, kept them from being considered for the largest critical...

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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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Report:Oracle Versus HP: Customers Lose; Oracle And x86 Linux Vendors Win

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...

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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:Evaluate New Converged Infrastructures To Underpin The Software-Defined Data Center

The Next Evolution Of IT Infrastructure For Supporting Fully Virtualized Environments Takes A Storage-Centric Approach

The transformation of virtual computing environments into fully software-defined data centers is disrupting the architecture of the underlying physical infrastructure. The recent wave of converged...

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Report:Put ARM-Based Servers On Your Server Planning Horizon

Three Emerging Factors Will Force Major Disruption In Server Technologies

For the past two decades, long-term planning for the x86 server estate has been predictable for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives — but over the next three years, this planning...

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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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Report:How Many Servers Can Dance On The Head Of An Administrator?

Demystifying Support Ratios For Core Infrastructure

How many servers can a single administrator manage? How many terabytes of storage can one admin handle? Answers to these support ratio questions are frequently sought by Forrester's infrastructure...

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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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