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 B2B Market Research Professionals

Enterprise Data Center Electrical Efficiency  (152 KB PPT)

by Christopher Mines, April 3, 2008

A look at the interest of Asia Pacific enterprises in electrical efficiency in their datacenters as well as some of the reasons for this. The look also contrasts this interest with the more developed markets of North America.

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Topic Overview: IT Management Software

by Natalie Lambert, November 13, 2007

Today's organizations are trying to keep up with the continuous pace of technology change and growing business requirements. The importance of management technologies to monitor and manage the wide array of hardware and software systems deployed in the . . .

Global Compute Grid Adoption Is Nearly Flat

Awareness Grows, But It Doesn't Consistently Translate To Interest

by Frank E. Gillett, October 13, 2006

Unlike server virtualization, which hit 92% awareness and 40% adoption in North American enterprises, compute grids have achieved 81% awareness and only 8% adoption. European enterprise awareness and adoption is similar to North America's, while Asia . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

EDA, SOA 2.0, And Digital Business Architecture

How Event-Driven Applications Fit Into The Future Of IT Architecture

by Randy Heffner, September 1, 2006

Forrester has long considered event-driven processing to be an integral part of service-oriented architecture (SOA), but some industry players are just recently catching up. They are combining event-driven architecture (EDA) and SOA and calling it SOA . . .

Power And Cooling Heat Up The Data Center

Maximizing Efficiency Yields Both Pragmatic And Social Benefits

by Richard Fichera, March 8, 2006

After a brief day in the sun in the late '90s, concerns about power and cooling as critical limitations in the enterprise data center and corporate IT strategy faded into obscurity along with the dot-com economy. Over the past two years, however, as energy . . .

Grid Groups Will Merge Efforts To Ease Confusion

Forrester Believes That The EGA And GGF Talks Will Lead To Unification In 2006

by Frank E. Gillett, January 20, 2006

The Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) was formed in 2004 because of the belief that the Global Grid Forum (GGF) was not serving the needs of firms that wanted to apply academically developed grid technologies to conventional IT problems. Now the two organizations . . .