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Report:Software-Defined Storage Will Sound The Death Knell For Traditional Storage Provisioning

Shrinking storage budgets and rapidly expanding data stores are putting extraordinary amounts of pressure on storage administrators. Storage vendors have responded to new customer requirements for...

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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: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: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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Report:The Top Emerging Technologies To Watch: Now Through 2018

Landscape: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging digital technologies are a primary driver of business evolution and disruption. Firms are grappling with an accelerating pace of business change while also trying to make IT simpler and more...

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Report:Asia Pacific Tech Market Outlook For 2012 To 2014

Political Inertia Hampers Asian Economic And Tech Market Growth

The Asia Pacific region is often thought of as the growth engine of the global economy and thus of the tech market. But that engine has been misfiring on some key cylinders, leading to slower growth...

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Report:Cloud Investments Will Reconfigure Future IT Budgets

As-A-Service Computing Will Shift Budgets From New Project Spending To Ongoing MOOSE Expenditures

In 2012, for most CIOs, spending to maintain and operate the organization, systems, and equipment (MOOSE) represents more than 70% of their information and communications technology (ICT) budget on a...

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Report:Global Tech Market Outlook 2013 To 2014

In Local Currencies, The US Will Lead 5.4% Global Tech Market Growth In 2013 And 6.7% Growth In 2014

The 2013 to 2014 period will see a different pattern of tech market dynamics than what prevailed in 2012, forcing CIOs and business tech buyers to adjust their spending plans to take advantage of new...

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Report:Segmenting The US Tech Market

SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013

For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...

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Report:Assess Your IT Infrastructure Maturity

Assessment: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

Even though spending on server, storage, network, and facilities infrastructure consumes 50% of budgets, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders struggle to answer two critical questions: 1)...

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Report:Forrester's IT Infrastructure Maturity Assessment

Forrester's IT infrastructure maturity assessment evaluates your current and desired state maturity across 24 key IT infrastructure elements within four top-level domains: oversight, people, process,...

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Report:China Tech Market Outlook: 2012 To 2013

The Big Dragon's IT Spending Will Slow Down In 2012

The European debt crisis has gradually begun to affect China, slowing economic growth in the country in the first half of 2012. To reflect this, we've revised our China tech market forecast and...

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Report:US Tech Market Outlook Dims For 2012 To 2013

US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace

This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...

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Report:Global Tech Market Outlook 2012 To 2013

Economic Weakness Will Slow, But Not, Stop Growth

CIOs tracking broader tech market trends to see where their firms stand face a mixed picture, depending on their location. On a global basis, the European recession and weakening economic growth in...

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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:Cache Is King In Cloud Storage Enablement

How Cloud Storage Gateways Can Facilitate Storage Across The WAN

Cloud storage options abound these days, and enterprise infrastructure and operations professionals are eager to take advantage of expected cost and flexibility benefits. But for most data-intensive...

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Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2012 To 2013

Improving Economic Prospects Create Upside Potential

CIOs care about tech market trends for three reasons: 1) to understand how much other firms are spending on information and communications technologies (and where); 2) to determine where they ought...

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Report:Top 10 Storage Predictions For I&O Professionals

Storage teams faced another busy year as their businesses produced larger volumes of data than ever before and sought better storage performance to feed applications that support business growth. Of...

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Report:The Financial Impact Of Storage Refresh Cycles

This model is designed to function as a decision tool for planning enterprise storage refresh strategy. Given a set of assumptions, a firm can use this tool to model and compare two scenarios for...

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Report:Market Overview: Disk Libraries, Q1 2012

Identity Crisis No More: The Backup Market Shifts From Virtual Tape To Treating Disk As Disk In Open Systems Environments

The use of disk in backup environments has been accelerating for several years. We've now reached a point where most infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are using disk in some way,...

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Report:Global Tech Market Outlook For 2012 And 2013

Eight Themes Will Shape Vendors' Prospects Over The Next Two Years

The market for purchases of information technology goods and services by business and government will go through two transitions in 2012 and 2013. The first is a spending slowdown after the recession...

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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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Report:SSD-Only Storage Challenges The Need For Tiers

Advanced Data Reduction Brings The Effective Cost Near Parity With Disk

Flash-based solid state disk (SSD) is poised to play a big role in enterprise storage due to its high-performance, stateful nature and moderate cost compared with DRAM, but figuring out how to use it...

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Report:Cloud Computing Road Map For Enterprise Architects

The purpose of this road map is to illustrate the implementation timing of the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technologies evaluated in Forrester's...

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Report:Big Data Needs More Than Just Big Storage

I&O Teams Must Investigate A New Storage Architecture To Support Business Expectations Of Big Data

Despite the hype, big data is a reality for organizations today. Data, in any form, has been on a path of explosive growth, and the reality of zettabytes lies in the near future. This data —...

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