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Report:Software-Defined Storage Will Sound The Death Knell For Traditional Storage Provisioning

Shrinking storage budgets and rapidly expanding data stores are putting extraordinary amounts of pressure on storage administrators. Storage vendors have responded to new customer requirements for...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Evaluate New Converged Infrastructures To Underpin The Software-Defined Data Center

The Next Evolution Of IT Infrastructure For Supporting Fully Virtualized Environments Takes A Storage-Centric Approach

The transformation of virtual computing environments into fully software-defined data centers is disrupting the architecture of the underlying physical infrastructure. The recent wave of converged...

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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:Forrester's IT Infrastructure Maturity Assessment

Forrester's IT infrastructure maturity assessment evaluates your current and desired state maturity across 24 key IT infrastructure elements within four top-level domains: oversight, people, process,...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Cache Is King In Cloud Storage Enablement

How Cloud Storage Gateways Can Facilitate Storage Across The WAN

Cloud storage options abound these days, and enterprise infrastructure and operations professionals are eager to take advantage of expected cost and flexibility benefits. But for most data-intensive...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Top 10 Storage Predictions For I&O Professionals

Storage teams faced another busy year as their businesses produced larger volumes of data than ever before and sought better storage performance to feed applications that support business growth. Of...

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Report:Big Data Needs More Than Just Big Storage

I&O Teams Must Investigate A New Storage Architecture To Support Business Expectations Of Big Data

Despite the hype, big data is a reality for organizations today. Data, in any form, has been on a path of explosive growth, and the reality of zettabytes lies in the near future. This data —...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Virtualization In Greater China 2010 To 2011: End User Adoption Trends

This report provides an overview of virtualization end user adoption trends in Greater China. It focuses not only on adoption trends but also on deployment patterns, demand drivers, adoption...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Midrange Storage, Q3 2011

Unified Storage Architectures Enable Private Cloud Environments

The storage industry is undergoing a transition. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) execs know that storage is a core component of enabling private cloud environments. But to achieve cloud...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For Enterprise Architecture Professionals: Infrastructure Virtualization, Q2 2011

I/O Virtualization Enters Its Growth Phase

Every major category of IT infrastructure has been endowed with some virtualization capability. Although virtualization can make your IT environment more cost-effective and agile, the underlying...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Navigating The Shifts In Computing Infrastructure Markets

Cloud Services, New Technologies, And The Rise Of Informal Computing Buyers

Important trends are surfacing in computing infrastructure markets that will cause vendor strategists to take a fresh look at new buyer behavior, shifts in business models, and adoption of emerging...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Ignoring Cloud Risks A Growing Gap Between I&O And The Business

Navigating The Shifts In Computing Infrastructure

Over the past several years, we've seen two key cloud trends in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space: 1) Public cloud adoption rates are highest among "informal buyers" (non-IT employees),...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments, Q1 2011

Single-Source Your Storage Vendor And Explore NFS As The Storage Protocol To Support Growing Virtual Server Environments

Virtual server technology is a unifying technology in IT infrastructure around the world. As maturity increases, more critical production applications are being deployed virtually, raising the stakes...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:ASEAN Data Center Study: End User Result Analysis

This document provides a comprehensive background of ASEAN countries' (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) data center market dynamics from the end...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:India Data Center Study: End User Result Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive background of India's data center market dynamics from the end user perspective so vendor strategists can address market opportunities more successfully and...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:ANZ Data Center Study: End User Result Analysis

The primary objective of this document is to provide a comprehensive background of Australia and New Zealand data center market dynamics. It provides an end user perspective to enable vendor...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Virtualization In Asia Pacific 2010-2011: End User Adoption Trends

This report provides an overview of the virtualization adoption trends in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. Survey data reflects over 450 interviews with CIOs, IT managers,...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Prepare For Object Storage In The Enterprise

Consider Object Storage In Your Archiving, Web 2.0, Imaging, And Cloud Workloads

There's a great deal of talk these days about object-based storage. It's an architecture that delivers massive scalability, rock-bottom cost, high automation, tremendous flexibility, and improved...

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Report:Update Q4 2010: The Universe Of Corporate PC Backup Options

Protecting The Corporate PCs Is As Important As Protecting Servers

What's your reaction to this scenario? Your CEO leaves his laptop, full of mission-critical (but encrypted) data, in a cab. One frantic phone call later and we learn that a far-sighted employee had...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Cloud Storage Comes Down To Earth

Cloud Storage Is Ready Today, But Only For Three Limited Use Cases

Few advances in storage have been hyped as much as "cloud storage." Every vendor in the space is painting its products and message with a cloud veneer. But for all this hype, there is little clarity...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:ASEAN Datacenter Study: Virtualization, Consolidation, And Data De-Duplication

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the ASEAN Datacenter market dynamics based on 112 interviews with ASEAN CXOs and top IT executives of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:India Datacenter Study: Virtualization, Consolidation, And Data De-Duplication

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...

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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 CIO Professionals

Report:IT In India's Power Sector: Emerging Trends And Market Opportunities

A stable, reliable, and sufficient electricity supply is crucial for any country. However, the power scenario in India has yet to reach desirable standards due to inadequate capacity, high...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Controlling Storage Cost Amid High Growth

Storage capacity has been growing fast for the past five years, and an end to the recession is only likely to spur further expansion as projects are re-funded. Recent data shows storage commanding a...

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