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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Hosted Private Cloud, Q1 2013

No Dominant Market Leaders Today, But Front-Runners Are CSC And Rackspace

Forrester's Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2012 showed that 46% of enterprises are prioritizing investments in private clouds in 2013. While slightly more than half plan to build a private cloud in...

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Report:An Infrastructure And Operations Pro's Guide To Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Services

You Must Include These Services In Your Five-Year Road Map

Historically, disaster recovery (DR) preparedness required substantial time and financial investment. For many, DR was out of reach, and for others, it was a burdensome task that often felt like an...

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Report:Market Overview: Public IaaS Clouds, Q4 2011, Part 3

Cloud Platforms: Foundational Systems Could Strengthen Your Preferred Service Providers

A growing number of public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds are coming to market that share the same underlying capabilities, technologies, and interfaces. Rather than build their clouds...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Hosted Private Cloud, Q1 '13

For CIO Professionals

Report:Develop Cloud Metrics Using The Balanced Scorecard

Performance Management: The Cloud Computing Playbook

This report outlines the performance management of Forrester's solution for CIOs working on developing effective objectives and metrics for their organization's cloud strategy. Crafting and measuring...

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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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Report:A Sample Internal Private Cloud Balanced Scorecard For I&O Professionals

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is built around four dimensions that we have adjusted for use in information technology: the value perspective, the customer orientation perspective, the operational...

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Report:The State Of Infrastructure-As-A-Service Cloud Standards

Cloud adoption, particularly of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), is still in the early-adopter phase, and as a result there are no set industry standards. For IT infrastructure and operations...

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Client Inquiry:How Much Are Clients Spending On Private Cloud Investments?

Do you have any data on the average amount clients are spending in order to deploy a private cloud computing environment?

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Report:Master 10 Trends For Your Cloud Journey

Road Map: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Early in 2011, Forrester made a series of predictions about the future of cloud computing for that year. With 2012 now upon us, it's time to evaluate last year's predictions and introduce new...

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Report:Case Study: Waste Management Builds A True Private Cloud

Secrets To Success: Designed With The Customer And Inspired By Public Cloud

By building a private cloud the right way, Waste Management (WM) reduced resource deployment time from two and a half months to around 20 minutes and gave existing public cloud users a satisfactory...

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