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Report:Fuse Business Acceleration Technologies To Optimize User Experiences

Deliver Blazing-Fast Web, Mobile-Native, And Hybrid Applications

Over the past decade, infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams have focused large amounts of resources on making their customer-facing websites blazingly fast because website experience had a direct...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Evolve Your Operations Center For True Service Management

The operational hub of any well-run and complex organization is a strong operations center. In IT infrastructure and operations (I&O), this function is often fragmented into pockets that tend to be...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Know Your Data To Create Actionable Policy

Policy And Procedures: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

Data defense is the fundamental purpose of information security. To defend your data, there are only four levers you can pull — controlling access, inspecting data usage patterns for abuse,...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Future Of Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing

Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Build Security Into Your Network's DNA: The Zero Trust Network Architecture

Strategic Plan: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

One of our goals with Zero Trust is to optimize the security architectures and technologies for future flexibility. As we move toward a data-centric world with shifting threats and perimeters, we...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:No More Chewy Centers: Introducing The Zero Trust Model Of Information Security

Vision: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

There's an old saying in information security: "We want our network to be like an M&M, with a hard crunchy outside and a soft chewy center." For a generation of information security...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Defend Your Data From Mutating Threats With A Zero Trust Network

Executive Overview: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

We've all heard about the "evolving threat landscape." In biology, evolution is a process that takes millions of years to occur as a result of small changes in successive generations. Mutations, on...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Workload-Centric Infrastructure Ignites Software-Defined Networking

It's Not Yet Ready For Prime Time, But I&O And Vendors Have A Lot To Do Before It Gets Here

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams are aligning themselves and infrastructure around key workloads to drive greater simplicity and efficiency. In kind, the networking industry has responded by...

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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:TechRadar™ For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals: Client Virtualization, Q3 2012

Burdened With Consumerization Pressures, I&O Turns To Client Virtualization To Deliver Flexible Workforce Computing

Over the past decade, seemingly every new year promised to be the year for client virtualization. But the market never exploded the way vendors and media predicted. Instead, I&O professionals viewed...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: PostNL Delivers On BYOD

Network Investments And VDI Adoption Enable Deployment

Talk about bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and most I&O professionals immediately think about access control for an onslaught of unauthorized devices, from laptops to smartphones to tablets. However,...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Dissect Data To Gain Actionable INTEL

Forrester's Data Security And Control Framework

Forrester segments the problem of securing and controlling data into three areas: 1) defining the data; 2) dissecting and analyzing the data; and 3) defending and protecting the data. We refer to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Networking Predictions For 2013

Networking's Renaissance Breaks Down The Technology Silos And Introduces Teamwork

As infrastructure & operations (I&O) leaders move aggressively to execute on their private cloud plans, they've run headlong into growing frictions between networking professionals and the rest of...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Develop Your Road Map For Zero Trust Network Mitigation Technology

Road Map: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution to help security and risk (S&R) leaders develop their road map for Zero Trust network threat mitigation technologies using Forrester's TechRadar™...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Updated Q1 2012: Understanding The Network Skills Gap

Virtualization, Bring-Your-Own-Device, And User Experience Will Reshape Networking Professionals' Roles And Responsibilities

Manual installation of engine pistons had an error rate of around 1%: automation reduced that to 0.00001%. Businesses need infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals to achieve comparable...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:An Infrastructure Can Only Be As Efficient As DNS, DHCP, And IP Address Management

I&O Should Focus Its Energies On DDI Operations, Not Development

When was the last time you heard of a company building its own personal computers for its employees? Cobbling together hard drives, CPUs, memory, and operating systems is not cost-effective or a core...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:The Data Center Network Evolution: Three Core Network Management Tools

I&O Must Invest In Configuration And Management, Monitoring, And Monitoring Aggregation To Accelerate Data Center Transformation And Automation

Businesses are pushing their infrastructures to become a standardized, self-service, pay-per-use model giving users rapid access to powerful and more flexible IT capabilities. This means that I&O...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Applying Zero Trust To The Extended Enterprise

Preparing Your Network For Any Device, Anywhere, Any Time

You are part of an extended enterprise — a new extended ecosystem of customers, clouds, service providers, partners, supply chains, and empowered users. The business expects you, the security...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Network Access Control, Q2 2011

ForeScout, Juniper, And Bradford Networks Outdistance The Pack, But Cisco, McAfee, And Enterasys Are Close Behind

In Forrester's 72-criteria evaluation of network access control (NAC) vendors, we found few notable points of differentiation between vendor offerings. Thus we have a tight clustering of vendors...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Intrusion Prevention Systems, Q2 2011

A Mature Space, IPS Is Still The Bulwark Of Network Security

An intrusion prevention system (IPS) complements traditional firewalls by inspecting the entire network packet looking for malicious traffic that is often invisible to Layer 3 firewalls. While...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Define Your Global Mobility Support Strategy With Wireless And Outsourcing In Mind

The community of information workers at large multinational firms (MNCs) who regularly work away from company facilities is growing quickly. As a result, sourcing and vendor management (SVM)...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Branch Office Infrastructure Capabilities Road Map

It is possible to greatly reduce the complexity of your branch office infrastructure, thanks to cheaper bandwidth, desktop virtualization, and cloud computing technologies such as...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Opening New Doors With IPv6

Identify The Business Benefits Of IPv6 And Break Deployments Into Three Areas

What's different between electric cars, flux capacitors, and IPv6? Absolutely nothing! They're all hyped technologies that have yet to come to full fruition. For IPv6, that's about to change. The...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Focus Your Network Strategy On User Experience, Not Application Delivery

To Remain Business-Relevant, I&O Managers Need A New Network Architecture

Networking isn't about applications or technology — it's about users. The business pressure to consolidate IT, support empowered users, and provide customized experiences to customers is...

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