For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Peer Adoption: The State Of Server Virtualization  (471 KB PPT)

by Christopher Voce, November 20, 2009

This data chart examines the usage and trends of server virtualization in enterprises today as well as the motivations that drive adoption.

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Driving Multitenancy In Your Virtual Environments

How To Get Business Units To Share Your Consolidated Infrastructure

by James Staten, November 18, 2009

As you continue to consolidate your server infrastructure and make it more cloudlike, a key hurdle you and most enterprises must overcome is the sharing of physical infrastructure between business units (BUs). While some organizations have a centralized . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Charging Back For Your Virtual Infrastructure

How To Allocate Costs For Virtual Machines And Drive Greater Adoption

by James Staten, November 18, 2009

As you continue to consolidate your server infrastructure and make it more cloudlike, a key hurdle that you must overcome is cost allocation for the virtual infrastructure. While most enterprises are not yet charging back or tracking virtual machine (VM) . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

TechRadar™ For Infrastructure And Operations Professionals: Infrastructure Virtualization, Q4 2009

I/O Virtualization Enters Its Growth Phase

by Galen Schreck, November 16, 2009

Every major category of IT infrastructure has been endowed with some virtualization capability. Although virtualization can make your IT environment more cost-effective and agile, the underlying technologies have matured at different rates. Furthermore, . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Aligning Your VMware Licensing Strategy With Your Broader Virtualization Plans

by Christopher Voce, Galen Schreck, November 12, 2009

It's not easy for enterprises evaluating their licensing options with VMware. In addition to worrying about the mechanics of how an enterprise licensing agreement (ELA) fits with your internal deployment plans, you need to consider a shifting competitive . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Case Study: Lionbridge Uses Virtualization To Reclaim Its Data Center

Microsoft Hyper-V's Maturation In Windows Server 2008 R2 Yields Improvements

by Christopher Voce, November 10, 2009

Microsoft Windows Server is ubiquitous in corporate data centers, but its server virtualization solution, Hyper-V, a feature of the operating system (OS), has faced an uphill battle in capturing market share. Microsoft recently released Windows Server . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Vendors Beware: Virtualization, PaaS, And SaaS Are Changing The Capacity Management Tools Market

by Jean-Pierre Garbani, November 10, 2009

Continuous improvement in the server technology performance-price ratio has caused many organizations to simply dismiss the need for accurate workload and resource planning efforts. In the current economic climate, infrastructure optimization and operational . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

IT Buyers Prioritize Virtualization Over Cloud

Strategists Should Plan Practical Offerings And Messaging For Buyers

by Frank E. Gillett, October 30, 2009

In the Forrester Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2009, we used carefully worded questions to test buyer priorities on initiatives for virtualization, consolidation, automation, internal cloud, and infrastructure-as-a-service . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Client Virtualization Adoption Trends, 2009  (528 KB PPT)

by Natalie Lambert, October 6, 2009

A look at the most recent client virtualization adoption trends.

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Role Overview: Virtual Infrastructure Architect

by Galen Schreck, Rachel A. Dines, June 25, 2009

As the adoption of virtualization across servers, storage, and networks continues to climb and organizations push to larger implementations of virtual infrastructure, a new question arises: Who is going to manage your virtual infrastructure? Sure, you . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Virtual Infrastructure Architect - Job Profile And Description  (32 KB XLS)

by Galen Schreck, Rachel A. Dines, June 23, 2009

Position overview: The virtual infrastructure (VI) architect is responsible for managing all of the virtualized infrastructure across technology domains (this usually does not include the virtual desktop).

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Virtualization Is This Season's Cap Management

Capacity Management In A Virtual World

by Simon Yates, June 17, 2009

With improved service performance, coupled with the rise of virtualization and the limits of hardware sprawl, Forrester anticipates improvements to the capacity management process. Data centers will make a comeback. They'll be different though, and better, . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

TechRadar™ For I&O Professionals: Green IT 1.0 Technologies, Q2 2009

Helping IT Ops Professionals Understand And Prioritize Green IT Hardware, Software, And Service Investments

by Doug Washburn, June 12, 2009

Green IT is on the rise. Even in the face of a weak economy, twice as many organizations expect to accelerate their green IT plans as expect to slow them down. Why is this? Green IT initiatives are financially motivated, exposing opportunities for cost . . .

For B2B Market Research Professionals

Cloud Infrastructure-As-A-Service: Interest And Adoption By Region  (443 KB PPT)

by Frank E. Gillett, May 29, 2009

Cloud Computing, Compute-As-A-Service: Interest And Adoption By Region.

For B2B Market Research Professionals

Cloud Infrastructure-As-A-Service: Interest And Adoption By Industry  (394 KB PPT)

by Frank E. Gillett, May 29, 2009

Cloud Computing, Compute-As-A-Service: Interest And Adoption By Industry.

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Sun Is The Center Of The New Oracle Universe

How Cisco, HP, And Oracle Are Shaping IT's Future

by Jean-Pierre Garbani, May 21, 2009

There are defining moments in IT where all the stars align to create a big bang. Twenty years ago, IT vendors faced clients wanting application and service value, not technology. The market dominance of IBM mainframes forced these smaller vendors to find . . .

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

The Real Problem Of Counting Virtual Licenses

Software Sourcing Managers Should Understand The Licensing Impact Of Their Colleagues' Plans For Server Virtualization

by Duncan Jones, April 23, 2009

Software license agreements that vendors created and buyers accepted years ago fail to make clear how definitions of hardware-based metrics such as per-processor apply to today's virtualized data centers. Enterprises, hoping to cut costs by improving . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Capacity Management In A Virtual World

Transforming The Traditional Process To Serve Virtualization Imperatives

by Jean-Pierre Garbani, April 17, 2009

Traditional capacity planning is seen as an exercise in forecasting the alignment of hardware resources to enterprise activity growth. Cheap systems meant that this was eventually considered to have little value: Why use scarce and expensive intellectual . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Are Open Source Hypervisors Viable For You?

Red Hat And Citrix Ratchet Up Open Source Virtualization Relevancy

by James Staten, April 14, 2009

The open source hypervisor landscape has become much more interesting following the latest announcements from Red Hat and Citrix Systems. Both announcements were clearly aimed at virtualization juggernaut VMware, but Red Hat's move may only further fragment . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Deliver Cloud Benefits Inside Your Walls

Economic And Self-Service Gains Are Within Reach

by James Staten, April 13, 2009

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 professionals are taking this concept in-house and building their . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Behind "Cloud" Is Your Future Application Environment: Ultra Modular Computing

Shift Cloud Excitement To Your Own Data Centers

by Charles Brett, Jeffrey S. Hammond, April 6, 2009

Cloud computing is all the rage, but its greatest benefit may be to teach IT organizations how to build flexible and cost-efficient private data centers. The technical foundations of cloud computing — commodity hardware, virtualization, elastic workload . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Desktops-As-A-Service Elongates The PC Refresh Cycle: A Pike County Schools Case Study

by Natalie Lambert, January 21, 2009

Even when the economy is good, IT professionals are asked to cut costs without sacrificing functionality — when it's bad, organizations demand that more be done with less. Pike County Schools' implementation of desktops-as-a-service (DaaS) provides an . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

There Are Two Types Of Compute Clouds

Server Clouds And Scale-Out Clouds Serve Very Different Customer Needs

by Frank E. Gillett, November 21, 2008

Cloud computing is a confusing topic for vendor strategists. One reason? Most of us confuse two fundamentally different types of compute clouds as one. Server clouds support the needs of traditional business apps while scale-out clouds are designed for . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Client Virtualization Improves Security Of The Corporate Desktop

Demystifying Client Virtualization

by Simon Yates, November 12, 2008

The traditional corporate desktop is quickly becoming a thing of the past, because it's difficult to manage, insecure, and inflexible. Thankfully, emerging client virtualization technologies have improved upon the traditional desktop in exactly these . . .

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Infrastructure And Operations Professionals: Must-Read Research In An Economic Downturn

by Simon Yates, November 7, 2008

The global economy stands on the brink of a complete meltdown, but the impending threat to the 2009 IT budget is nothing new to infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals: For years now, you've been asked to do more with less. However, this . . .