For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Inquiry Spotlight: IT Consolidation, Q1 2009

by James Staten, February 20, 2009

Forrester has recognized consolidation as a success imperative for IT infrastructure and operations professionals for some time, and the recession has only increased that interest. In 2008, Forrester fielded more than 100 client inquiries on various aspects . . .

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The Green Data Center Starts With A Rationalized Application Portfolio: A Sprint Case Study

How One IT Ops Group Generated Eco(nomic) Value By Removing Underutilized Apps And The Infrastructure Tied To Them

by Doug Washburn, February 12, 2009

Sprint's end goal was to cut costs, increase capacity, and reduce the carbon footprint of IT infrastructure in the data center — but that's not where they started. Recognizing that the data center and its server, storage, and network assets exist to support . . .

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Retrofitting Your Data Center For Better Capacity

by Galen Schreck, James Staten, October 29, 2008

Data centers are expected to last 25 to 30 years, but you need to periodically refresh your environmental gear for better capacity. Many companies can't deploy modern server equipment like blades that consolidate more wattage within single racks. But . . .

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The Forrester Wave™: IT Consolidation Consultancies, Q2 2008

IBM And Accenture Lead A Strong Field Of Worldwide Providers

by James Staten, June 13, 2008

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 in business justification of consolidation efforts. HP . . .

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Topic Overview: IT Consolidation

Rationalizing Data Center Infrastructure Investments For Greatest Efficiency

by James Staten, April 14, 2008

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 must do more and as nearly everyone faces space, power, . . .

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Five Trends That Will Shape The IT Infrastructure And Operations Profession In 2008

by Simon Yates, December 14, 2007

2008 will be a busy one for IT infrastructure and operations professionals. With CIOs openly espousing the benefits of server virtualization and losing sleep over the real costs of power leakage in their data centers, you will be on the CIO's "must call . . .

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IT Consolidation Drives Active-Active Data Center Configurations

by Stephanie Balaouras, December 7, 2007

Historically, alternate data centers have been an expensive insurance policy; the duplicate resources in this data center (DC) stood idle so that in case a disaster or some other calamity disrupted the production data center, IT operations could failover . . .

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Measuring The Cost Of IT Consolidation

Identifying The Elements That Contribute To Economic Analysis

by Andrew Reichman, November 12, 2007

Consolidation can help to optimize cost structure for IT organizations with limited resources. Technology enablers like virtualization and remote computing eliminate requirements for dedicated physical assets for each application and for physical proximity . . .

Data Center and Server Consolidation: Better Than Ever

by Colin Rankine, Brad Day, August 1, 2001

There have been a number of advances in both server and storage technologies during the last 18 months that have gone a long way to lift limitations, and as a result, enabled higher returns for consolidation projects.

Data Center Consolidation Valid Alternative to Outsourcing, but Consider All Risks

by Mike Dodd, May 3, 2001

Consideration must be given to a number of areas and a detailed view of the potential cost savings built up and viewed in the context of both project and operational risk