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Blog:What BigFix Adds To IBM’s Portfolio Of Green IT Products And Services

Today, IBM announced its acquisition of BigFix, an established client and security management suite vendor. Beyond gaining BigFix’s core competencies in securing and managing client devices and...

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Tool:The Energy Savings Potential From Improving Your Virtualization Processes

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Client Inquiry:What Solutions Should We Consider For Enterprise-Level Environmental And Power Monitoring?

We need an environment and power monitoring solution that monitors temperature, humidity, power including uninterruptible power supply (UPS) status, and water under the raised floor at several points...

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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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Tool:Server Virtualization Trumps All Other Green Data Center Activities

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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:How GlaxoSmithKline Empowered IT Staff To Save ~$1 Million In PC Energy Costs

I recently recorded a podcast with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the global pharmaceutical company, and their success story of implementing a PC power management initiative that is expected to cut energy...

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Tool:Approximately 25% Of IT Organizations Have Budget Specifically Allocated To Green IT

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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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Tool:Model — Calculating Your Green IT Baseline

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Tool:I&O Professionals Should Weave Green IT Practices Into Infrastructure Investments

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Client Inquiry:What Are The Business Benefits Of Green IT Or Sustainable IT Programs?

What are the business benefits of green IT or sustainable IT programs?

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Blog:Forrester In Your News: Browser Wars, BYOD (again!), x86 Servers, Disaster Recovery, Mobile Engagement . . .

If IBM is thinking about exiting the server business, why should you in enterprise IT stay in it? If BYOD accelerates browser diversity, how will you develop and support corporate apps...

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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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Blog:Forrester In Your News: Happy Workers = Happy Customers, Windows 8, Software-Defined Data Centers, BYOT China, Mobile Shoppers

What do the top 3% of IT leaders know about workforce computing that you don’t? When will (or won’t) Windows 8 hit critical mass in enterprises? What about software-defined data centers...

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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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Blog:Is IT Infrastructure & Operations Still Relevant In “The Age Of The Customer”?

Yes, but you must adapt by demonstrating your ability to drive business growth and differentiation, not just cost savings and uptime. Here’s a personal example of a much broader trend as to why...

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Client Inquiry:Power Efficiency Trends In IT Equipment

Our IT division needs to provide our facilities folks with high-level IT equipment power forecasts for three, five, and 10 years out. We'd like to ask if your analysts can provide a statement...

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Client Inquiry:Server Virtualization

What utilization and VM-to-physical host ratios does Forrester suggest for a mature server virtualization initiative?

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Tool:While Most IT Shops Don't Pay For Electricity, 60% Want To Improve Energy Efficiency

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Report:Role Job Description: The Green IT Manager

To Maximize Value, I&O Leaders Must Hire Green IT Managers Now

Most firms lack a comprehensive green IT strategy to deliver the consistent, repeatable, and measurable results that infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders expect. To turn this situation around,...

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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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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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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: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...