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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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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Capacity Management And Planning Tools In 2013

Reap The Agility And Financial Benefits From Emerging Infrastructure

The emergence of inexpensive server technology and cloud infrastructure has caused many IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals to simply dismiss the need for accurate workload and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

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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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Server Virtualization Predictions For 2013

The Battle Moves To The Management Layer

I&O pros continue to rank the drive to improve IT infrastructure consolidation, availability, and agility — driven by virtualization — as a top priority. With nearly six in 10...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Rise Of The New Cloud Admin

And No, It's Not Your Virtualization Manager

Nearly half of all enterprise IT shops claim to be prioritizing private cloud investments in 2013, but both in the largest enterprises and those firms that are most aggressively investing in public...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Master The Eight Disruptors That Will Transform Business Technology Resiliency In 2013

Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

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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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: Managing Virtual Server Capacity

For one of the travel industry leaders and one of the largest data center operators in Europe, virtualization appeared to be the ideal solution for lowering infrastructure management costs and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

Report:Understand The True Cost Of Cloud Services

Budgeting And Planning: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Forrsights surveys show that enterprises are turning to the cloud for speed and lower cost — but are the savings really there? The answer isn't always obvious; it might be that your internal...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Cloud Brokers Become Change Agents

Understanding The Cloud Broker Opportunity

The rapid innovation of technology and business models spurred by cloud computing provides CIOs, as well as external providers, with a unique opportunity to redefine their relationships with the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Assess Your Cloud Maturity

Assessment Framework: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The business is pushing for new and innovative ways to increase top lines and pushing you to leverage cloud computing services as much as possible. On the flip side, you're also being asked to drive...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The CISO's Guide To Virtualization Security

Get Off The Bench And Look Into Your Virtual Environment

In today's data centers, IT often virtualizes new applications and workloads by default. Virtualization is the norm; deploying a physical server is the exception. The technology is mature and...

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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 CIO Professionals

Report:Asian Urbanization Creates Opportunities For ICT Suppliers

With increasing urbanization, Asian cities will undergo rapid transformation, creating opportunities for vendors that align themselves with city-level objectives. City opportunities are growing...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Virtualization In Greater China 2010 To 2011: End User Adoption Trends

This report provides an overview of virtualization end user adoption trends in Greater China. It focuses not only on adoption trends but also on deployment patterns, demand drivers, adoption...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

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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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

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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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Update 2011: Q&A: SharePoint Licensing Complexities

Licensing SharePoint, And How Federation And Virtualization Play A Role

Microsoft's SharePoint has been a runaway success with many companies: so much so, that it tests the mettle of infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals who are charged with building and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Q&A: How To Get Private Cloud Right

From Scoping To Sizing To Incenting Use: Unconventional Thinking Is Required

Recent Forrester inquiries from enterprise infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals show that there's still significant confusion between infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Asia Pacific IT Market Comes Of Age

It's Time To Review Your Asia Pacific Strategy

The Asian IT market is set for considerable growth over the next few years as the fast-growth economies move on from the financial crisis and return to high gross domestic product (GDP) growth mode....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For Enterprise Architecture Professionals: Infrastructure Virtualization, Q2 2011

I/O Virtualization Enters Its Growth Phase

Every major category of IT infrastructure has been endowed with some virtualization capability. Although virtualization can make your IT environment more cost-effective and agile, the underlying...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Demand Insights: The SMB Hardware Infrastructure Market

SMBs' Plans For Servers, Storage, Virtualization, Form Factors, And Cloud Computing

Suppliers of infrastructure hardware to small and medium-size business (SMB) buyers are poised for better times, given plans by SMBs to upgrade their software and associated hardware infrastructures...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Ignoring Cloud Risks A Growing Gap Between I&O And The Business

Navigating The Shifts In Computing Infrastructure

Over the past several years, we've seen two key cloud trends in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space: 1) Public cloud adoption rates are highest among "informal buyers" (non-IT employees),...

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