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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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For CIO Professionals

Report:Asian Urbanization Creates Opportunities For ICT Suppliers

With increasing urbanization, Asian cities will undergo rapid transformation, creating opportunities for vendors that align themselves with city-level objectives. City opportunities are growing...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: IT Consolidation, Q1 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...

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Report: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

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:India IT Predictions 2009

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the India IT market predictions for 2009. Our research points at a positive outlook for the India IT market, despite the slowdown in...

For CIO Professionals

Report:China IT Market Predictions 2009

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of key trends in the Greater China IT market in 2008 and previews the key trends that will shape the regional market in 2009. The research...

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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Report:The Forrester Wave™: IT Consolidation Consultancies, Q2 2008

IBM And Accenture Lead A Strong Field Of Worldwide Providers

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...

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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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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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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:IT Consolidation Drives Active-Active Data Center Configurations

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...

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Report:Measuring The Cost Of IT Consolidation

Identifying The Elements That Contribute To Economic Analysis

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

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