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Blog:VMware Takes the Cover Off Its Public Cloud

Sometimes you can only coax a reluctant partner and I&O customer community for so long before you feel you have to take matters into your own hands. That is exactly what VMware has decided to do to...

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Blog:Dear Help Desk: What's Safe To Do In The Cloud?

Wouldn't it be nice if your employees actually asked you this question before they went off and signed up for a cloud service or deployed a new app to a cloud platform? If they did ask, would you...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Microsoft Moves to Level the Cloud Platform Playing Field

In typical Microsoft fashion, they don't catch a new trend right with the first iteration but they keep at it and eventually strike the right tone and in more cases than not, get good enough. And...

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Report:Companies Building Private Clouds Focus On Infrastructure But Not Operations

Examining Peers' Investments In Private Cloud Reveals Uneven Spend

Almost one-quarter of the infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals polled in our Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2010 said that building a private cloud is a high or critical priority for...

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Client Inquiry:Best Practices For Transformational Infrastructure Road Map

We're in the process of building out a transformational infrastructure road map for our IT and business executives. What are some best practices for such an infrastructure road map?

For CIO Professionals

Report:Predictions For 2013: Cloud Computing

We'll Finally Get Real About Cloud

As we start the new year, there is one clear takeaway regarding the cloud computing market: Enterprise use has arrived. Cloud use is no longer solely hiding in the shadows; IT departments are no...

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Report:Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency

Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

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Report:Rightsource Your Applications For The Cloud

Build/Buy Capabilities: The Cloud Computing Playbook

CIOs frequently ask us which applications they should consider moving to the cloud or replace with cloud services. Forrester provides you with a methodology to answer this question and help you...

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Blog:The Two Words You Need To Know To Turn On Cloud Economics

Everyone understands that cloud computing provides pay per use access to resources and the ability to elastically scale up an application as its traffic increases. Those are values that turn on cloud...

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Blog:The State Of The Cloud Market — SVForum

Curious about where we are in the development of the cloud computing market? Here is my opening keynote from the 2012 SV Forum in Santa Clara, CA....

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Blog:Citrix Breaks Away From OpenStack

Today's move by Citrix to put its CloudStack IaaS solution into the Apache Foundation says more about the state of the cloud market than it does about OpenStack. As our Fall 2011 Forrsights...

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Tool:Nearly A Quarter Of Enterprises Prioritize Private Cloud, Up From 19% Last Year

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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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Blog:2012 Cloud Predictions – Winners & Losers

The year 2012 brought a significant amount of growth in enterprise use of cloud services but did it fulfill our expectations? With just five weeks left in the year, it’s time to reflect on our...

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Blog:The partner opportunity in cloud computing - Microsoft WPC

What is the opportunity for Microsoft partners (or other VARs, SIs, ISVs and technologists) in the emerging cloud computing space? Don't think of cloud as a threat but as an opportunity to...

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Tool:Large Enterprises Partner With The Major Consultancies For IT Consolidation

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Blog:The Cloud Computing Market Grows Up

Mark this date. While it isn't an anniversary of anything significant in the past, it is a day where our beloved cloud computing market showed significant signs of maturing. Major announcements...

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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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Blog:Windows Azure Crosses Over To IaaS

At its Professional Developers Conference this week, Microsoft made the long-awaited debut of its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution, under the guise of the “VM-role”...

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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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Tool:Most Commonly Cited Cloud Platforms

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Blog:CenturyLink-Savvis: Is The Rush To Cloud 1 + 1 = More Than 2 For Enterprise I&O?

Hot on the heels of Verizon’s acquisition of Terremark comes today’s $3.2 billion purchase of Savvis by CenturyLink, signaling that the rush to be an enterprise cloud leader is on. It...

For CIO Professionals

Report:Improve Productivity With The Cloud

Business Impact: The Cloud Computing Playbook

When a market disruption as large as cloud computing comes along, it sends ripples throughout your organization, so it should come as no surprise that attitudes toward this technology vary widely...

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Report:Onboard The Business To Your Cloud Strategy

Change Management: The Cloud Computing Playbook

It's all too easy for CIOs and IT departments to build a strategy around any new technology area that is focused on delivering lower IT costs and greater operational efficiency. However, to get your...

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Blog:To Get Cloud Economics Right, Think Small, Very, Very Small

A startup, who wishes to remain anonymous, is delivering an innovative new business service from an IaaS cloud and most of the time pays next to nothing to do this. This isn't a story about...