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	May 26, 2009 TechRadar™ For IT Infrastructure And Operations Professionals: Branch Office Technologies, Q2 2009 Core Technologies Ripe For Consolidation And Centralization by Chris Silva with Simon Yates, Ben Echols	Average: 9  (1 rating)

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Executive Summary

As businesses look to IT for the efficiencies, savings, and streamlining that will improve the bottom line, consolidation of branch office infrastructure represents a distributed but easy-to-optimize area of IT infrastructure. All the technologies included in this TechRadar are ripe for consolidation into the core of the organization in a central data center or to be virtualized and run on existing infrastructure that will persist in the branch, such as the WAN optimization or application delivery appliances. Branch-office-in-a-box, also included in this analysis, is often highlighted as the likely replacement for multiple pieces of branch office infrastructure. However, it exists as one of two paths for the evolution of infrastructure in the branch, with the other being cloud-based branch office services. Regardless of the path toward consolidation, the technologies highlighted in this TechRadar should be built into a consolidation plan aimed at driving down capital expense, reducing management complexity in the branch, and lowering associated operational expenses as well.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The State Of Plans For Branch Office Technologies
• Why The Future Of Branch Office Technology Matters
• Overview: Forrester's TechRadar For Branch Office Technologies
• Branch Office TechRadar: A Smaller IT Footprint Can Still Run The Branch
• Supplemental Material
• Related Research Documents

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