For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Consolidated Backup Strategies For Remote Sites

by Stephanie Balaouras, October 30, 2009

A remote site can be as small as a branch office location with five employees or as large as a regional sales office with 50 employees. Regardless of a company's size, end users are creating and storing critical data at these sites. In some industries . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Shift In Ownership: Protecting Data Outside Your Four Walls  (1.6 MB PPT)

by Robert Whiteley, October 28, 2009

In September 2009, Forrester hosted a two-day event designed to help security and risk professionals understand the top three shifts impacting their job heading. This document summarizes the key recommendations we made to help master the shift in ownership . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Selecting Data Protection Technologies

Answer Four Key Questions Before Spending Time And Treasure

by Andrew Jaquith, October 28, 2009

Forrester enterprise customers have increasing needs to protect their enterprise data. Not every data protection challenge requires technology to address it. But when effective protection cannot be guaranteed by process compliance alone, technology can . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Market Overview: Client Management Suites

Evolving Computing Market Shifts Focus To Security And Virtualization

by Natalie Lambert, July 29, 2009

Desktop operations managers are watching their computing environment change. There are now more types of devices and more varieties of operating systems entering the enterprise than ever before. This is leading to an architectural shift, one that moves . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Use Deduplication To Store More With Less

Dedupe Your Backups Today, But Plan For Other Environments

by Stephanie Balaouras, July 10, 2009

While the cost of disk has declined significantly over the past five years, you still can't call it cheap at thousands of dollars per terabyte (TB). IT professionals struggle to keep up with 30% to 40% annual data growth while simultaneously creating . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Inquiry Spotlight: Backup, Q2 2009

by Stephanie Balaouras, June 26, 2009

Backup is one of the most critical day-to-day responsibilities for IT operations. You must have a recent backup of your critical data to recover from accidental deletions, system crashes, disk failures, and data corruption. But backup is complex, error . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Protecting Email With The Cloud

How Cloud Services Can Play A Role In Message Continuity And Recovery

by Stephanie Balaouras, Christopher Voce, June 8, 2009

Ensuring that your users can access email and keep business moving in the event of a disaster is critical, but it can be complex and costly. Traditional methods carry heavy facility, hardware, software, and personnel requirements, and the capital and . . .

For B2B Market Research Professionals

Disaster Recovery Solutions Remain High On Healthcare's Agenda  (406 KB PPT)

by Eric G. Brown, March 27, 2009

Disaster recovery solutions have been a critical agenda item for hospital IT organizations, but years of HIPAA regulatory pressure and post-Katrina lessons have brought the sector into relative maturity. However, the tail remains, and there's urgency . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

IBM's Bid For Sun Is About More Than Just Solaris And Java

Sun's Innovations Can Improve IBM's Prospects Outside Enterprise Markets

by Frank E. Gillett, March 24, 2009

Vendor strategists are calling Forrester asking what we make of the possibility of IBM buying Sun Microsystems. The conventional wisdom is that IBM wants to capture the Solaris/SPARC customer base to boost the AIX/Power business and own Java to protect . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Inquiry Spotlight: Disaster Recovery, Q1 2009

by Stephanie Balaouras, March 20, 2009

Whether it's a power grid failure, ice storm, or Category Five hurricane, when disaster strikes, IT must have disaster recovery plans in place to ensure the continuity of IT systems that support critical business processes. If IT isn't prepared, it will . . .

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

TechRadar™ For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals: Software-As-A-Service

CRM And Collaboration Are Growing, And Many New Categories Are On The Horizon, Q1 2009

by Liz Herbert, March 12, 2009

As software-as-a-service (SaaS) becomes increasingly important to firms' application strategies, sourcing and vendor management professionals are taking ownership of the research, purchasing, negotiations, and ongoing vendor relationships for these solutions. . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Enterprise IT Security In Europe: 2008

Business Data Services Europe

by Bill Nagel, March 2, 2009

How are European enterprises adopting, using, and managing IT security technologies, including client security, data security, content filtering, and business continuity and disaster recovery? This document highlights an extensive data set collected from . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Twelve Recommendations For Your 2009 Information Security Strategy

by Khalid Kark, January 20, 2009

Many security predictions paint a doomsday scenario where a crippling cyberattack will leave us all reeling from its effects or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems vulnerabilities will be exploited to play havoc with our national . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Inquiry Spotlight: Archiving, Q4 2008

by Stephanie Balaouras, December 8, 2008

Forrester clients report that data storage is doubling every 12 to 18 months. Not only is data growth exploding, but companies also need to figure out how to retain this data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes. As a result, more and . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Q&A: Compliance Storage Demystified

by Jo Maitland, October 24, 2008

Relying on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for guidance on regulations turns out to be a pretty bad idea, as we are finding out in more ways than one these days. When it comes to figuring out what constitutes compliance-based storage, the . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Best Practices: Email Archiving

by Jo Maitland, October 17, 2008

With so many vendors now offering products for email archiving, getting beyond the hype to what you really need is becoming more and more of a challenge. Many of these tools were created for financial services companies dealing with compliance regulations, . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Inquiry Insights: Business Continuity, Q3 2008

by Stephanie Balaouras, September 22, 2008

Every year, Forrester receives more than 265 inquiries on topics related to business resiliency such as business continuity, IT continuity, IT high availability, and data backup. Between August 2007 and August 2008, 62 end users made inquiries primarily . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Q&A: The Future Of MAID Storage

by Jo Maitland, September 16, 2008

Massive array of idle disks (MAID) storage, a technology that radically cuts down on the power consumption of disk drives by spinning them down or off when not in use, has barely made a dent in the market. Despite the hype around green IT, there are several . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Five Key Storage Strategies For A Down Economy

Tips To Make The Most Of A Tight Budget In The Face Of Ongoing Data Growth

by Andrew Reichman, July 16, 2008

It's clear that the economy is on a downward trajectory, and regardless of the duration or severity, there's no doubt that belt-tightening in IT spending will be the norm for the next year. At the same time, most IT budgets were already stagnant or slow-growing . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Q&A: Top Questions About VMware Backup

by Stephanie Balaouras, Galen Schreck, July 14, 2008

Enterprise adoption of x86 server virtualization is mainstream. Deployment is no longer limited to application development and testing environments, and chances are your organization is virtualizing mission- and business-critical production environments. . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Archiving: Finding Data In 2050

Stick With Open Standards To Build A Long-Term Digital Archive

by Jo Maitland, July 1, 2008

In 2050, it won't be a question of saving data, but how on earth to find it when you need it and then actually read it is the real question. Just like eight-track tapes from the 1970s, whatever digital storage medium you save your data to today will be . . .

For B2B Market Research Professionals

Storage And Archiving Adoption In Asia Pacific  (146 KB PPT)

by Ellen Daley, April 3, 2008

A look at storage and archiving adoption in enterprises in Asia Pacific.

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

2008 Trends In Backup And Data Protection

by Stephanie Balaouras, April 2, 2008

Backup remains as problematic as ever, but there are several emerging trends in technology and functional convergence that should address some of the biggest challenges: increasing capacities, shrinking backup windows, increasing recovery point requirements, . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Market Overview: Backup Software-As-A-Service

The First Of Many IT Ops-Focused SaaS Offerings

by Stephanie Balaouras, February 19, 2008

Backup is a struggle for both enterprises and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs). It's a complex ecosystem of backup software, networks, servers, disk arrays, and tape systems. Many firms have difficulty completing backups in the time available, . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Imperva Is A Leader In Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Noel Yuhanna, October 26, 2007

Imperva is a Leader with a strong performing and scalable auditing solution that scored high in most areas that we evaluated. Imperva has strong support for audit and compliance reporting, end-to-end audit analysis, fraud detection, response auditing, . . .