Trends Report

Strategic Benchmarks 2013: IT Infrastructure

IT Complexity And Growing Business Demands Orient Infrastructure Priorities Toward Increasing Hardware And Cost Efficiency

May 8th, 2013
Andre Kindness, Principal Analyst
Andre Kindness Principal Analyst
Sophia I. Vargas, null
Sophia I. Vargas
Richard Fichera, null
Richard Fichera
Dave Bartoletti, null
Dave Bartoletti
Henry Baltazar, null
Henry Baltazar
Rachel A. Dines, null
Rachel A. Dines
With contributors:
Doug Washburn , Eric Chi , Heather Belanger

Summary

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 their peers. The benchmarks in this report focus on key categories of IT infrastructure: servers, server operating systems, storage, data center networking, virtualization, and data center facilities. These benchmarks represent a subset of data collected in Forrester's Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2012, fielded to 2,330 hardware decision-makers. Use these benchmarks as an important input to determine if you will maintain, adjust, or rethink your strategic infrastructure plans in 2013.

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