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• Report The New Economics Of On-Premises Infrastructure

  Business Case: The Infrastructure Transformation Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Naveen Chhabra, Brent Ellis

  While public cloud storage isn't a panacea due to concerns about privacy, security, governance, availability, and unpredictable costs, its operating expenditure (opex) cost model is attractive....

• Report Identify And Estimate The Costs Of Downtime On Your Business

  Don't Rely On Industry Averages -- Determine Your Own

  January 13, 2021 | Naveen Chhabra

  Resilient tech infrastructure is critical for business success, and downtimes cost dearly. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) pros leading their firms’ IT disaster recovery (DR) program must...

• Report The State Of Disaster Recovery Preparedness In 2020

  Review Business And IT Risks With Evolving Business Operations

  August 24, 2020 | Naveen Chhabra

  Technology outages damage customer confidence in a business. While infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders have more tools at their disposal to prepare themselves to recover from any type of...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q3 2020

  Tools And Technology: The Infrastructure Transformation Playbook

  July 29, 2020 | Naveen Chhabra

  In our 35-criterion evaluation of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Cisco, DataCore Software, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Huawei,...

• Report Navigate The Choices And Experiences Of Hyperconverged Infrastructure

  Exercise The Solution Strategy That Makes Sense For Your Business

  July 27, 2020 | Naveen Chhabra

  Despite its popularity, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) remains an enigma. Using industry-standard hardware, this sought-after solution increases flexibility, ease of operations, and...

• Report Now Tech: Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 21 HCI Providers

  May 12, 2020 | Naveen Chhabra

  You can use hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to simplify IT operations, deliver flexible and scalable infrastructure services, and reduce overall costs. But to realize these benefits, you'll...

• Report Hardware Remains Critical In A Software-Defined World

  Roadmap: The Infrastructure Transformation Playbook

  January 10, 2020 | Naveen Chhabra, Chris Gardner

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders live in a world of constant change. Their challenge is to embrace the latest technologies while continuing to maintain the tech they already have. I&O...

• Report Predictions 2020: Edge Computing

  New Form Factors, Partnership Strategies, And The Promise Of 5G Will Converge To Catapult Edge Toward Mainstream

  November 4, 2019 | Abhijit Sunil, Dan Bieler, Naveen Chhabra

  Edge computing has been among the most important trends associated with cloud computing and has enabled a multitude of use cases, beyond IoT and embedded systems, for infrastructure and operations...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Storage Technologies For Business Data, Q4 2019

  Eighteen Technologies Underpin Business Data Storage

  October 21, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  A firm's choice of technologies for storing business data as it passes through all stages of its lifecycle affects its ability to serve customers. To find the data storage technology that will best...

• Report Four Technologies Combine To Protect You From Ransomware Attacks

  October 18, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  As the ones responsible for recovering from outages, infrastructure and operations (I&O) pros have successfully managed recoveries from all failures but one: ransomware. Ransomware attacks do not...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2019

  The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  September 12, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  In our 40-criterion evaluation of data resiliency solution vendors, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Actifio, Cohesity, Commvault, Dell EMC, Druva, IBM, Micro Focus, Rubrik, Veeam, and...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Disaster-Recovery-As-A-Service Providers, Q2 2019

  The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  April 17, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  In our 34-criterion evaluation of disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) providers, we identified the eight most significant ones — DXC Technology, Flexential, IBM, iland, InterVision, Recovery...

• Report Assess The Pain-Gain Tradeoff Of Multicloud Strategies

  Learn The Difference Between Strategic Multicloud And Ineffective Complexity

  March 19, 2019 | Lauren Nelson, Andre Kindness, Naveen Chhabra

  Multicloud and hybrid cloud are equally useless terms, and yet, in reality, they define your obvious cloud strategy. Having multiple platforms, cloud and noncloud, allows for flexibility and...