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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrsights: IT Budgets And Priorities In 2013

Mobility And Analytics Drive Spending Growth Despite Business Pessimism

What are the 2013 budget plans and priorities for CIOs and other IT decision-makers? Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 provides insight on the 2013 tech buying...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Capacity Management And Planning Tools In 2013

Reap The Agility And Financial Benefits From Emerging Infrastructure

The emergence of inexpensive server technology and cloud infrastructure has caused many IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals to simply dismiss the need for accurate workload and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Develop A Strategy To Transform Your IT Infrastructure And Operations Practice

Strategic Plan: The I&O Practice Playbook

The writing is on the wall: As-a-service technology, tech-savvy workers, and increased business complexity are widening the gap between business demand and traditional IT supply. This era is making...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: Managing Virtual Server Capacity

For one of the travel industry leaders and one of the largest data center operators in Europe, virtualization appeared to be the ideal solution for lowering infrastructure management costs and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Assess Your IT Infrastructure Maturity

Assessment: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

Even though spending on server, storage, network, and facilities infrastructure consumes 50% of budgets, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders struggle to answer two critical questions: 1)...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Develop Your Service Delivery Monitoring Strategy

Service Management And Automation

Service delivery monitoring is a critical enabler that IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must invest in to foster the transition from IT to business technology (BT). Why? As the IT...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Develop Your Road Map For Service Management And Automation Processes

Road Map: The Service Management And Automation Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their road map of service management and automation processes (SMA) using Forrester's...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Server And Data Center Predictions For 2012

Continuation Of Old Trends And A Few Disruptions

This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations executives working on data center infrastructure. This report is designed to help you build a road map for 2012. Looking at...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Executive Spotlight: Top Priorities For IT Infrastructure & Operations Leaders, 2H 2011

Insights From The Forrester IT Infrastructure & Operations Council

Every six months, Forrester fields a survey to members of its IT Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) Council to ascertain their top priorities for the following six months. Forrester's I&O Council...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:IT Infrastructure And Operations: The Next Five Years

The Cloud On IT's Horizon

Interest in cloud technology and cloud economics abounds. While the technology delivers immediate reductions in capital costs, Forrester believes that cloud computing's greatest benefits will come...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:The New Capacity Planning Process Requires Three New Steps

Reboot Your Capacity Planning Process With Cost-Value Analysis, Governance, And Global Planning

Virtualization and cloud computing bring a new dimension to IT operations: a choice in how services will be delivered to the business. Capacity planning must change to reflect this evolution: It now...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Enterprise Cloud Management Capabilities Road Map

Cloud computing, in all its variants, is the trend that will change your infrastructure the most. Today, public cloud is a distinct world from your data center — it involves different...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:I&O's New Capacity Planning Organization

Virtualization And Cloud Computing Force A New Organizational Model That Decentralizes Capacity Management And Centralizes Capacity Planning

The precipitous and predictable drops in IT hardware unit-costs during the past 20 years made capacity planning obsolete. It was cheaper to overprovision than to hire experts. But infrastructure...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Do CIOs Care About IT Management Tools?

CIOs are constantly working to run IT like a business — focusing on business orientation through capabilities like IT planning, portfolio management, and IT investment optimization. A myriad of...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

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

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Supply Chain Of Data Centre Capacity (And Why Scale-Up Still Matters)

Hydrasight notes that investment in, and payment for, IT infrastructure resources continues to be a contentious issue. While data center consolidation has been the driving ideal for much of the last...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Virtualization Is This Season's Cap Management

Capacity Management In A Virtual World

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...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Capacity Management In A Virtual World

Transforming The Traditional Process To Serve Virtualization Imperatives

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...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Capacity Manager -- Job Profile And Description

Position overview: This person is tasked with bringing a holistic and accurate IT capacity plan for infrastructure needs to their company.

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Role Overview: Capacity Manager

A Balancing Act Of Today's And Tomorrow's Needs

Capacity management is a process aimed at controlling the IT infrastructure in such a way that resource shortages are anticipated and corrected before they occur, thus maintaining service-level...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Retrofitting Your Data Center For Better Capacity

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...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Don't Build Your Next Data Center, Colocate It

Colocation Will Give You More Power, Space, And Resiliency For Less Money

If you've consolidated as much IT infrastructure as you can and your data center is still running out of space and power, you may be thinking about building a new data center. Before you begin, ask...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Five Key Storage Strategies For A Down Economy

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

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...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Topic Overview: IT Consolidation

Rationalizing Data Center Infrastructure Investments For Greatest Efficiency

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...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Topic Overview: IT Management Software

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...

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