The Future Of Data Center Automation

How Automation Tools Will Mature And Consolidate Through 2007

by Galen Schreck, February 3, 2006

Data center automation (DCA) products have evolved from basic provisioning and software distribution tools into powerful platforms that govern many aspects of data center operations. While many products share a common foundation in configuration management, . . .

The State Of IT Infrastructure Adoption

Business Technographics North America

by Frank E. Gillett, Michael Speyer, October 17, 2005

In Forrester's Business Technographics® July 2005 North American And European Enterprise Infrastructure And Data Center Survey, we found that regulatory compliance is the top initiative for North American IT organizations, which overall are focused . . .

Simplifying Organic IT Decision-Making

by Charles Rutstein, Ted Schadler, May 9, 2003

Making an Organic IT deployment decision requires more than picking and implementing technology products. Buyers must make three important - yet discrete - decisions about how they'll architect, locate, and purchase their infrastructure.

HP And IBM Lead As Organic IT Contractors

by Frank E. Gillett, Ted Schadler, April 11, 2003

This is the last brief in the Picking An Organic IT Contractor series. There are only three major systems vendors that can help firms build a fully organic datacenter today. In the Forrester Wave™, HP noses out IBM for the top spot, while Sun needs . . .

HP's Adaptive Infrastructure Aims For Organic IT

by Frank E. Gillett, Ted Schadler, Frank Pandolfe, January 24, 2003

CIOs can look to HP - now a full-stack alternative to IBM - for products that deliver practical Organic IT benefits today. But to stay ahead of IBM, HP must keep its Organic IT products simple and unite its Adaptive Infrastructure initiative under one . . .

Which Provisioning Vendor?

by Galen Schreck, Charles Rutstein, Frank Pandolfe, December 30, 2002

Firms pour big money down the drain with inefficient server provisioning. But vendors like Opsware, Jareva, and HP are leading the charge to supply a new generation of automated provisioning software.

Memo To CIOs: Launch Your Organic IT Voyage

by Frank E. Gillett, Ted Schadler, Frank Pandolfe, December 23, 2002

HP, IBM, and Sun have kicked off multibillion-dollar initiatives in support of Organic IT - a datacenter architecture built on standards, commodity components, and consolidated control. Don't wait: There's money to save in the first year of transition.

Server and Storage Infrastructure: Capacity on Demand and Utility Computing Provisioning Models

by Adria Ferguson, Colin Rankine, February 5, 2002

Even though the commercial promise of utility computing has faded, the core value propositions persist and should deliver value in the future in the context of internal IT service delivery models.