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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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Blog:Does Your CEO Care About Green IT? Not If You’re Stuck In The Data Center

To quote Forrester’s CEO and Founder, George Colony, during his keynote at Forrester’s IT Forum EMEA event: “CEOs only care about two things: revenue growth and...

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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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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Green IT, Q4 2010

When building their green IT strategy, Forrester's IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) clients look for insight from multiple sources — including their peers. Forrester analyzed 146 green...

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Blog:Forrester In Your News: BYOD, Tablets, Microsoft, Death of the PC (Not), Amazon, Customers . . .

Do you remember your “Current Events” class? It was the one where there was always a pop quiz on what’s happening in the news. Think if you were in that class today and there was a...

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Blog:Forrester In Your News: Microsoft Takes Aim At Amazon's Cloud, Windows 8 Start Button, BYOD > BYOT, Digital Disruption . . .

I write this week's "Forrester In Your News" from my apartment in Boston. Forrester's Cambridge office just across the Charles River from me is closed today, like many in the area, as...

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Client Inquiry:How Can We Make Our Apps And The Data Center Infrastructure They Run On More Energy-Efficient?

How can we make our applications and the data center infrastructure they run on more energy-efficient?

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Report:Green IT Plans And Activities Persist In 2010 Despite Lack Of Formal Budgets And Priorities

Position Green IT As An Enabler Of Broader Business And Technology Priorities

Although only 26% of organizations have budget directly allocated to green IT, Forrester finds that adoption of green IT is much higher, approaching 70% in areas of the data center and distributed...

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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:Six Steps Enterprise IT Should Take To Proactively Prepare For Windows 8

Two days ago I had an interview with the Head of End User and Desktop Services of a global pharmaceutical company. He mentioned that he's working through Windows 8, VDI, BYO and other...

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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: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...

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Tool:Server Virtualization Trumps All Other Green Data Center Activities

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

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Tool:Servers Consume A Significant Amount Of Total Data Center Energy Consumption

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Blog:Is Disposing Of, Reselling, Or Recycling End-Of-Life IT Equipment Really Strategic To You?

Yesterday, I participated in one of the regular content planning sessions for us analysts on Forrester’s IT Infrastructure & Operation’s Research team. Similar to investment managers and...

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Tool:The Energy Savings Potential From Improving Your Virtualization Processes

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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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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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Blog:Q&A With Charles Araujo, Author Of "The Quantum Age of IT"

Transformation: The topic of many, many conversations Forrester Analysts have with business and technology leaders everyday. But the definition and scope of transformation seems to vary widely...

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Blog:No “Leaders” Of Data Center Networking And Hosted Private Cloud Solutions

  Okay, I know it sounds a little dramatic… but it’s true. Over the last four months, Forrester Analysts Andre Kindness (@AndreKindness) and Lauren Nelson (@Lauren_E_Nelson)...

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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: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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Report:Updated Q1 2011: Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?

Measure Your Green IT Baseline Or Risk Being Caught With Your Pants Down

Is green IT your emperor with no clothes? It is if you've invested in green IT with the promise of reducing energy costs but haven't measured your energy baseline. Without a baseline, IT leaders...

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