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Report:Market Overview: IT Services In China, 2013

Businesses Now Have More Options To Drive Competitive Differentiation In China

China has entered a new phase of economic development, driven by government focus on expanding the domestic market. This transition will have a significant impact on private and public organizations...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Leveraging Outsourcing Services To Accelerate IT Maturation

Emerging Asia Steps Up

In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:How To Successfully Set Up IT Infrastructure For Your Business In China

For the thousands of foreign companies that establish business operations in China every year, one of the first things on their to-do lists is setting up IT infrastructure, including horizontal and...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Cloud Sourcing Models Dictate Sourcing Strategy

The Diversity Of Solutions Poses New Challenges For SVM Professionals

Anxious to take advantage of the rapid growth rates associated with cloud services, technology services vendors have developed a host of new solutions. These include pure infrastructure-as-a-service...

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Report:Telcos Are Lining Up Broad IaaS Offerings For Asia Pacific Enterprises

Organizations in Asia Pacific are realizing the cost efficiencies and business agility of virtualization and cloud computing. The region's market is crowded with regional and global...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Cloud Investments Will Reconfigure Future IT Budgets

As-A-Service Computing Will Shift Budgets From New Project Spending To Ongoing MOOSE Expenditures

In 2012, for most CIOs, spending to maintain and operate the organization, systems, and equipment (MOOSE) represents more than 70% of their information and communications technology (ICT) budget on a...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey Results

This PowerPoint deck presents the data gathered from Forrester’s Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey.  The survey fielded 106 responses; 56% from North America; 25% from Western...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The Data Center Services Market In Japan, 2013 To 2016

Providers Must Address Energy Efficiency And Governance To Thrive

Over the past 18 months, all of the significant data center players in the Japanese market -- telcos, vendors, service providers, and systems integrators (SIs) -- have been aggressively investing in...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Asia Pacific Channels: Indian Tiger, Chinese Dragon

Indian Partners Outpace Chinese

China and India are two of the largest emerging markets with strong economic growth. China represents the third largest single country tech market by market size; India ranks 11th. Homogenous...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency

Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Managed Hosting: Still Relevant Despite Cloud's Rise

Managed Hosting Remains A Viable Alternative Or Complement To The Cloud

If you've been reading the press, you could be forgiven for assuming that enterprise-class managed hosting would have transitioned entirely to the cloud by now. Yet the pace of managed hosting's...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 2012

Four Leaders And Four Strong Performers Compete For A Share Of The Enterprise Cloud Database Market

Cloud database offerings represent a new space within the broader data management platform market, providing enterprises with an abstracted option to support Agile development and new social, mobile,...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:How Customers Value IaaS Cloud Channels

Hosters And Tech Vendors Are Drafting Amazon's Slipstream

The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud business, with its high margins, is a strong attractant to a slew of provider channels. But customers view different provider types differently in terms...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Using New Communications Technology Models Shifts Strategy For Services Sourcing

Strategic Plan: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

Up until five to seven years ago, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals responsible for telecommunications and mobility services provisioning focused mainly on delivering value by...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Multiple PaaS Flavors Hit The Enterprise

Understanding The Fragmented Platform-As-A-Service Market

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is a confusing category, as the term "PaaS" is applied to cloud services with very different capabilities — and new options are appearing every month. Many...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Data Center Services In China

Traditional Market Leaders Must Adapt To A Rapidly Shifting Market

Forrester believes that the explosive growth of emerging data center services like as-a-service and virtual private cloud services over the next three to five years will spark increased demand from...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Addressing Key Obstacles In Setting Cloud Deals

Avoid Frustration By Changing Your Expectations For Cloud Providers

Forrester clients are often anxious to access the rapid provisioning and flexibility promised by providers of cloud technologies, but they too often languish in lengthy legal- and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Understand The True Cost Of Cloud Services

Budgeting And Planning: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Forrsights surveys show that enterprises are turning to the cloud for speed and lower cost — but are the savings really there? The answer isn't always obvious; it might be that your internal...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Cloud Brokers Become Change Agents

Understanding The Cloud Broker Opportunity

The rapid innovation of technology and business models spurred by cloud computing provides CIOs, as well as external providers, with a unique opportunity to redefine their relationships with the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Make The Cloud Enterprise Ready

In 2008, Forrester examined whether cloud computing was ready for the enterprise. In 2012, the answer is a definitive yes, but many enterprises aren't ready for the cloud. This report outlines the...

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Report:Assess Your Cloud Maturity

Assessment Framework: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The business is pushing for new and innovative ways to increase top lines and pushing you to leverage cloud computing services as much as possible. On the flip side, you're also being asked to drive...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Drive Service Management Adjustments With Peer Comparisons

Benchmarks: The Service Management And Automation Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution to benchmark your service management and automation (SMA) initiative. To understand the current state and future of SMA, Forrester partnered with the USA...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Master 10 Trends For Your Cloud Journey

Road Map: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Early in 2011, Forrester made a series of predictions about the future of cloud computing for that year. With 2012 now upon us, it's time to evaluate last year's predictions and introduce new...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Telcos Dive Headlong Into Asia's Cloud

Differentiation And Precise Market Segmentation Will Determine Success

As the Asia Pacific cloud market develops, it is becoming extremely crowded with competitors looking to position — or reposition — for future success. Many traditional telecommunications...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Move To An Asset-Based Services Play

Asset-Based Services Have Become A Prerequisite For Success

New business success imperatives are pushing clients to change the way they leverage IT solutions. IT service providers will have to adapt to these new rules of engagement if they want to remain...

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