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Report:Is Cloud Computing Ready For The Enterprise?

Not Yet, But This Disruptive Innovation Is Maturing Fast

Cloud computing is a new IT outsourcing model that doesn't yet meet the criteria of enterprise IT and isn't supported by most of the key corporate vendors. It's wildly popular with startups, exactly...

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Report:TechRadar™ For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals: Cloud Computing, Q3 2009

As Much Diversity Of Maturity Across Categories As Confusion Among Them

The No. 1 challenge in cloud computing today is determining what it really is. What categories of services exist within the definition and business model, and how ready are these options for...

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Report:Best Practices: Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS)

It seems as if every CIO comes back from a conference cocktail party demanding IT "move to the cloud." While this can mean many things, including using software-as-a-service, managed hosting, or...

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Report:Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions, Q2 2011

Five Solution Types To Choose From For Advancing Virtualization Maturity

Over the past year, client inquiry questions have evolved from "What is cloud?" to "What vendors should I consider?" This market overview examines the landscape of vendors providing solutions...

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Report:Topic Overview: IT Consolidation

Rationalizing Data Center Infrastructure Investments For Greatest Efficiency

The majority of IT infrastructure and operations professionals today are rationalizing IT to some degree. This leads to IT consolidation projects for most large organizations, as the finite resources...

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Report:BT 2020: IT's Future In The Empowered Era

An Empowered Report: Sweeping Changes In The Business Landscape Will Topple The IT Status Quo

Over the next 10 years, three sets of forces will change the relationship of business, technology, and the IT organization. Technologies that are increasingly easy to acquire and use will empower...

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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:Which Cloud Computing Platform Is Right For You?

Understanding The Difference Between Public, Hosted, And Internal Clouds

Cloud computing platforms are more than just shared, multitenant infrastructures on the public Internet. There are actually three infrastructure-as-a-service cloud deployment options available to...

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Report:Drive Savings And Profits With Cloud Economics

Business Plan: The Cloud Computing Playbook

We all believe that cloud computing can save us money but aren't sure how to maximize these savings. Firms almost always consider cloud computing a cost advantage compared to the in-house, always-on...

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Report:How Large Enterprises Approach IT Infrastructure Consolidation

Most IT shops are either down the path or plan to engage in IT infrastructure consolidation projects in the next year. How are they approaching it? Forrester surveyed 246 IT executives and managers...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: IT Consolidation Consultancies, Q2 2008

IBM And Accenture Lead A Strong Field Of Worldwide Providers

In Forrester's 42-criteria evaluation of IT consolidation consultancies, we found that IBM Global Services (IGS) and Accenture led the pack due to their breadth of capabilities and superior ability...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Attaining And Maintaining Blazing Fast Web Site Performance

A Multidisciplinary Approach Is Key

Customers have great expectations when they visit your Web site. They increasingly want a rich, interactive experience, and their tolerance for latency is approaching zero. If you cannot achieve...

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Report:Q&A: By 2011, CIOs Must Answer The Question, "Why Not Run In The Cloud?"

But Finding A Good Place To Start Is A Challenge For Most Shops

At Forrester's IT Forum in Las Vegas in May 2009, we hosted an analyst panel about saving, making, and risking cash with cloud computing. The session sparked a lot of interest — and a lot of...

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Report:Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) Clouds Are Local And So Are Their Implications

Know Where Your Cloud Is Before Deploying

Many leading infrastructure and operations professionals looking for more innovative ways to reduce costs and increase operational flexibility are choosing public IaaS cloud computing solutions....

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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:You're Not Ready For Internal Cloud

But You Can Be: Here's How

Cloud computing — a standardized, self-service, pay-per-use deployment model — provides companies with rapid access to powerful and more flexible IT capabilities and at price points...

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Report:Deliver Cloud Benefits Inside Your Walls

Economic And Self-Service Gains Are Within Reach

While the excitement about cloud computing centers on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and other public infrastructure-as-a-service products, many enterprise infrastructure and operations...

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Report:Hollow Out The MOOSE: Reducing Cost With Strategic Rightsourcing

Operationalizing BTaaS And Determining What Infrastructure Services Not To Do Yourself

Leading IT shops are leveraging today's recessionary climate to transform their organizations and the portfolio of services they manage and maintain. A new business-technology-as-a-service model, put...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: IT Consolidation Consultancies, Q4 2010

Accenture And HP Lead A Strong Field Of Worldwide Providers

In Forrester's 40-criteria evaluation of IT consolidation consultancies, we found that Accenture and HP led the pack due to their breadth of capabilities and superior ability in business...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Blade Server Systems, Q2 2009

HP And IBM Lead, With Dell And Sun Close Behind

In Forrester's 44-criteria evaluation of blade server system vendors, we found that HP and IBM lead the pack because of the maturity and breadth of their offerings. Dell is a Leader as well that...

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Report:Assess Your Infrastructure Virtualization Maturity

Here's How To Move To The Next Stage

Why are most organizations not achieving more with infrastructure virtualization? They just aren't ready to. Through more than 200 enterprise interviews, correlated with survey data, Forrester has...

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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:Best Practices: Blazing Fast Web Site Infrastructure

Measure Often, Cache Smart, And Collaborate With App Dev On Performance Tuning

With most enterprises now conducting business on the Web, it has become more crucial than ever that the experience is rich and responsive. Often these two goals conflict. How do you ensure a robust,...

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Report:Calculating Your Relative Cost Of Operations

This document provides a simple methodology for calculating the cost impacts of a new technology investment, process change, or project. Rather than conduct a full TCO analysis that can be...

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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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