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• 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 Deliver Better IT Assurance With Modern Technology Operations

  Executive Overview: The Modern Technology Operations Playbook

  January 6, 2021 | Rich Lane, Charles Betz, Will McKeon-White

  By adapting processes, technologies, organizational structures, and governance, infrastructure and operations (I&O) pros can harness modern technology operations (MTO) practices to better address...

• Report Overcome Change Management Paralysis

  The Basics Still Apply, But You Don't Need A CAB

  December 24, 2020 | Charles Betz

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are questioning the relationship between traditional change management and new practices such as agile and DevOps. The change management process...

• Report Understanding The Cloud Service Provider Landscape

  Landscape: The Cloud Computing Playbook

  December 23, 2020 | Bill Martorelli, Liz Herbert

  With cloud computing services now central to modern technology strategy, the challenge for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals is to focus on selecting the right partners and planning...

• Report Harness ChatOps To Empower Remote Collaboration

  ChatOps: The Accidental Standard

  December 21, 2020 | Rich Lane, Will McKeon-White

  With the shift to remote work and its ever-increasing complexity, teams are struggling to find ways to make collaboration easier and automate more. ChatOps is an important capability, enabling...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Cloud Governance And Enablement Technologies, Q4 2020

  Fourteen Technologies That Underpin Cloud Governance And Enablement

  December 15, 2020 | Tracy Woo, Andras Cser

  Cloud governance is critical to firms' ability to drive growth, accelerate innovation, and provide flexibility at scale. To accelerate their performance in cloud, companies are evaluating and...

• Report IoT Transforms Supply Chain Management

  Assess Opportunities To Enhance Your Supply Chain Processes Using IoT Solutions

  December 11, 2020 | Michele Pelino, Paul Miller

  Across verticals, enterprises use a variety of internet-of-things (IoT)-enabled processes to transform their end-to-end supply chain operations. This report identifies areas where IoT solutions...

• Report Reshape Your Application Support For Digital Operations

  Application Maintenance Is Everyone's Problem

  December 10, 2020 | Charles Betz

  Digital transformation and DevOps are challenging the traditional application support (AS) function within the infrastructure and operations (I&O) organization. In this report, we give I&O leaders...

• Report Cloud Powers The Adaptive Enterprise

  Vision: The Cloud Computing Playbook

  November 30, 2020 | Dave Bartoletti

  Cloud is no longer tactical but rather a strategic enabler of connected platform economies. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must orchestrate cloud ecosystems that link employees,...

• Report Now Tech: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization, Q4 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 18 CCMO Providers

  November 10, 2020 | Tracy Woo

  You can use cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) offerings to visualize your cloud costs, optimize resource usage, and better budget and forecast future spend. But to realize these...

• Report Service Desk 2020: It's All About Employee Experience

  Reliable, Accessible Services Fuel Innovation And Satisfaction

  October 6, 2020 | Charles Betz, Andrew Hewitt

  Although new technologies emerge every day, employees can't do their best work because they can't find the services they need, and when they do, bureaucracy causes unacceptable delays. In an era of...

• Report Gauge Your Modern Technology Operations Maturity

  Assessment: The Modern Technology Operations Playbook

  September 29, 2020 | Charles Betz, Rich Lane, Andrew Hewitt

  Today's customers and employees demand great experiences — fast. To satisfy them, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders and teams must ensure that they can continuously deliver on both...

• Report Build Your Operations Organization With Product Team Principles

  People: The Modern Technology Operations Playbook

  September 9, 2020 | Charles Betz, Andrew Hewitt

  Cloud, Agile, DevOps, and increasing attention to employee experience (EX) are challenging traditional infrastructure and operations (I&O) operating models worldwide. Team silos of technical...

• 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 Research Overview: Modern Technology Operations

  Landscape: The Modern Technology Operations Playbook

  August 3, 2020 | Andrew Hewitt, Will McKeon-White, Charles Betz

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals want to evolve their organizations to be more flexible and responsive in the face of digital transformation and disruption. DevOps, Agile,...

• Report Digital Experience Is Part Of Your Job

  Monitoring Pros Must Help Deliver Great DX With A Strong Digital Experience Monitoring Strategy

  August 3, 2020 | Rich Lane

  Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is key to understanding how digital users are interacting with your services. Business users own the digital experience (DX) strategy, but they're beholden to...

• Report How 5G And Edge Computing Advance IoT Value

  This Dynamic Duo Dramatically Expands IoT Insights And Speed

  July 31, 2020 | Michele Pelino, James Staten

  5G networks promise exponential bandwidth and ultra-low latency to edge computing solutions that empower near-real-time insights gained from business systems built on internet of things (IoT)...

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

  The 11 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  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 The Forrester Wave™: Open, Programmable Switches For A Businesswide SDN, Q3 2020

  The 12 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  July 28, 2020 | Andre Kindness

  In our 32-criterion evaluation of open, programmable switching solutions, we identified the 12 most significant ones — Arista Networks, Cisco IOS-XE, Cisco NX-OS, Dell EMC, Extreme Networks, H3C,...

• 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 Gauge Your Infrastructure Automation Maturity

  Assessment: The Infrastructure Transformation Playbook

  July 17, 2020 | Chris Gardner

  To convert your mundane operations routines into a finely tuned, automated ecosystem, you need to know where to start your transformation. This report guides infrastructure and operations (I&O)...

• Report Evaluate SDWAN Services Based On Branch Office Goals, Not Hardware Data Sheets

  Fourteen Criteria To Use For Your Next SDWAN Services RFP

  July 16, 2020 | Andre Kindness

  With wide-area network (WAN) architecture transitioning from a hub-and-spoke design to a businesswide WAN fabric, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders have started to leverage, or have plans...

• Report Level Up Your Cloud Strategy With Video Game Innovation

  Be A Fast Follower Of An Industry That Consistently Pioneers Change

  July 16, 2020 | Chris Gardner, Will McKeon-White

  The video game industry has always been a hub of innovation, leveraging emerging technologies to create new experiences for players. Cloud-native infrastructure and development are no different....

• Report The Chinese RPA Market Is Coming of Age

  Key Trends In Robotic Process Automation In China

  July 16, 2020 | Guannan Lu

  Robotic process automation (RPA) adoption by firms in China has gained significant momentum over the past 18 months. Product and service offerings are maturing, and the increasingly diverse market...

• Report Enhance EX With Zero Trust

  Business Case: The Zero Trust Security Playbook

  July 13, 2020 | Andrew Hewitt, David Holmes

  Forrester's Zero Trust (ZT) framework is the modern security architecture blueprint for enterprises. Fundamentally, ZT is about moving away from traditional perimeter-based security approaches and...