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Report:Strategic Benchmarks 2013: IT Infrastructure

Benchmarks: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...

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Report:Server And Data Center Predictions For 2013

This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on data center infrastructure. This report is designed to help you build a road map for 2013. As...

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Report:Voice Of The Customer: The Good, The Bad, And The Unwieldy Of DCIM Deployments

Customers Achieve ROI, But Configuration Is More Difficult Than Expected

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is rapidly emerging as a solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals improve data center operations and management. As...

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Report:Market Overview: Data Center Infrastructure Management Solutions

Maturing Solutions Allow Integrated Physical Management Of The Data Center

This report is part of the data center infrastructure playbook and should be read by IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals. Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is a...

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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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Report:Updated Q3 2011: Power And Cooling Heat Up The Data Center

Green Data Centers Become A Foundation For Cloud Growth

Driven by the confluence of rising energy prices, the immense scaling of many cloud workloads, and continual pressures on IT budgets, power and cooling have become even more critical issues than they...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:The Data Center Network Evolution: Five Reasons This Isn't Your Dad's Network

Look To Virtual Switches, Virtual I/O, Meshed Networks, And Automation To Maximize Your New Data Center Investment

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams are facing a difficult challenge in the data center: tossing out the rules of networking architecture. After years of just "throwing bandwidth" at the...

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Report:Are Converged Infrastructures Good For IT?

New Unified Solutions Strive To Accelerate Virtualization Maturity

IT pros have most of the basic ingredients to cook up their own cloud-like infrastructure — but there's no recipe, and many ingredients just don't combine well. Complicating the story are the...

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Report:Juniper's Visionary Move: Growth In The Next Decade Led By The New Network Concept

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of Juniper Networks, the company's announcements of new products, strategies, and getting listed on the NYSE. The document analyzes the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Put DCIM Into Your Automation Plans

Data Center Infrastructure Management Should Be A Part Of Your Architecture

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools are system management platforms covering rack, cooling, and electrical infrastructure for your data center facilities. Most companies have...

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Report:Market Overview: Workload Automation, Q3 2009

Is BSM The Future Of Workload Automation?

Job scheduling is a necessary component of data centers. Without job scheduling, an enterprise could simply not execute long application processes that deal with massive amounts of data and are...

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Report:The IT Automation Imperative

Putting IT On The Road To Industrial Mass Production

Cost reduction is the universal 2009 battle cry. With 35% of a typical IT budget spent on personnel, staffing represents the heaviest IT financial burden. The way in which IT evolves in complexity...

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Report:IT Operations 2009: An Automation Odyssey

Prepare For The IT Automation Inflection Now

A combination of forces, including skyrocketing complexity and severe economic pressure, are radically and irreversibly altering the IT landscape. New methods, new functional sourcing, and new...

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Report:TechRadar™ For I&O Professionals: Green IT 1.0 Technologies, Q2 2009

Helping IT Ops Professionals Understand And Prioritize Green IT Hardware, Software, And Service Investments

Green IT is on the rise. Even in the face of a weak economy, twice as many organizations expect to accelerate their green IT plans as expect to slow them down. Why is this? Green IT initiatives are...

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Report:IT Process Automation: Q4 2008 Market Update

Helping IT Through The Economic Storms

Efficiency and cost reduction are going to be the key IT words of 2009. With 35% of a typical IT budget spent on personnel, staffing represents the heaviest IT financial burden and is perceived as...

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Report:Infrastructure And Operations Professionals: Must-Read Research In An Economic Downturn

The global economy stands on the brink of a complete meltdown, but the impending threat to the 2009 IT budget is nothing new to infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals: For years now,...

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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:HP Software: Well Positioned For Growth

This report provides vendor strategists with a comprehensive overview of HP's annual Technology Solutions Group (TSG) Industry Analyst Summit held in Boston, Massachusetts in April 2008. This...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Automation, Q2 2008

HP Is The Unified Data Center Automation Front-Runner; BladeLogic And BMC Follow Close Behind

Data center automation (DCA) solutions allow IT organizations to automate a variety of workflows that support configuration and change management processes across IT infrastructure. In Forrester's...

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Report:Data Center Automation Defined

Steps Toward IT Service Automation — Doing More With Less

Operating a data center not only requires the daily assistance of people who have deployed a variety of tools, but it also calls for a variety of processes and best practices to ensure smooth data...

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

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...

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Report:Data Center Fire Suppression 101

What To Do When The Roof Is On Fire

Data center fire suppression is a complicated topic with many variables that affect the correct system design for your particular situation. But what are the variables that go into implementing a...

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