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• Report TechRadar™: BT Infrastructure, Q2 2016

  May 9, 2016 | Andre Kindness, Robert Stroud, J. P. Gownder

  Software has turned the infrastructure world upside down. Hardware speeds and feeds no longer dominate infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals' criteria; they know that the fastest...

• Report Brief: Storage Wars Will Deliver Extreme Speed Sooner Than Expected

  Storage-Class Memory Becomes A Major Horse Race

  January 26, 2016 | Richard Fichera

  Your business technology agenda requires extreme performance for ever more demanding applications and customer experiences. Storage issues, often the biggest performance bottleneck, will soon be...

• Report Brief: Supercharge Systems Of Insight With New Infrastructure Architectures

  Better Analysis Methods And Their Increased Use In Critical Business Processes Drive Changes In Supporting Infrastructure

  November 5, 2015 | Richard Fichera

  Customer-facing, data-intensive systems are central to the BT agenda and have catalyzed the deployment of big data environments for systems of insight. I&O pros now know how to configure and manage...

• Report Brief: New Memory Innovations Will Power Extreme Service Performance

  Flash Is Already Being Usurped In The Insatiable Quest For Speed

  October 1, 2015 | Henry Baltazar, Richard Fichera

  Customer expectations for performance have skyrocketed, placing new demands on your infrastructure. Memory and storage bottlenecks have been critical limitations, but that is about to change....

• Report Brief: Four Trends Transforming Enterprise Storage To Support The BT Agenda

  Declining Revenues Force Strategy Changes

  July 2, 2015 | Henry Baltazar, Richard Fichera

  Despite the constant and rapid growth of data in enterprises, the revenue and profits of the major storage players have been flat to declining for the last few years. Cloud storage services and...

• Report Inquiry Spotlight: Five Ways To Modernize Your Storage Strategy

  Cloud Storage, Flash Arrays, And Software-Defined Storage Take Center Stage

  March 26, 2015 | Henry Baltazar

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are struggling to evolve their infrastructure to meet the daunting scalability, performance, and rapid provisioning challenges created by the...

• Report Brief: Accelerate Your BT Services With Flash Storage

  Boost Your Infrastructure Performance And Efficiency With Solid-State Storage

  January 28, 2015 | Henry Baltazar

  As your digital business caters to ever shorter customer attention spans, raw execution speed must be a primary requirement of your business technology (BT) agenda, which applies technology,...

• Report Velocity: The Only Storage Issue That Matters In The Age Of The Customer

  Relentlessly Seek Speed In Your Service Design

  November 26, 2014 | Henry Baltazar

  Storage always was and always will be critical to infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals seeking to expand their BT agenda. Factors like capacity, cost, and management have dominated...

• Report Brief: Disk Is Dead — For Performance

  Accelerate Your Business Services With Flash Today

  September 24, 2014 | Henry Baltazar

  Until now, infrastructure teams and their hardware vendors have taken a cautious approach to integrating flash and solid-state storage into their infrastructures. The time for caution is over. The...

• Report Quick Take: Dell's Nutanix Partnership Escalates The Hyperconvergence Vendor War

  Witness The Beginning Of A New Era In Infrastructure Convergence

  June 24, 2014 | Henry Baltazar

  Dell's new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partnership with hyperconvergence pioneer Nutanix adds a disruptive element to its portfolio that will help you design and deliver services more...

• Report Market Overview: Midrange Storage

  Decoding The Midrange Storage Market

  June 12, 2014 | Henry Baltazar

  Business growth is the main factor driving data growth, and organizations must assess their current storage infrastructure to create a sustainable environment. The midrange storage space is a...

• Report Seven Influential Storage Trends Shaping Your Near-Term Strategy

  Flash And Object Storage Expand Tiering Options To Better Serve Your Business

  May 21, 2014 | Henry Baltazar

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) decision-makers continue to struggle with unbridled data growth and must change inefficient storage buying habits to keep their customers happy and key data...

• Report Consider Whether To Put Huawei On Your Provider Shortlist

  Huawei Makes Progress In The Enterprise, But Is Not For Everyone — Yet

  May 9, 2014 | Frank Liu

  Since Huawei Technologies entered the global enterprise IT infrastructure market in 2011, it has made consistent progress with broadening its portfolio of enterprise products and services and...

• Report Key I&O Technology Trends To Watch In 2014, Part 1

  In The Age Of The Customer, Lean Technology Infrastructure Is A Must

  April 29, 2014 | Sudhanshu Bhandari

  To accelerate business growth, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals in Asia Pacific (AP) must understand and ultimately master four key I&O-related trends: 1) Continually consolidate...

• Report Brief: Strategic Benchmarks 2014: Storage

  March 14, 2014 | Henry Baltazar

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives and their engineering teams often ask Forrester for technology adoption data to understand which new innovations their peers have adopted to manage...

• Report Predictions For 2014: Servers And Data Centers

  Hyperscale Computing Demands And Flash Will Reshape The Server Landscape

  December 19, 2013 | Richard Fichera

  As we transition from 2013, the drumbeat of new servers and new CPU offerings from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel, IBM, HP, Dell, Cisco, and a variety of ARM licensees including Texas...

• Report Q&A: The Top Questions And Answers On Enterprise Storage In H1 2013

  Your Peers Seek Answers On Storage Efficiency, Modernization, Consumerization, Performance, And Vendor Selection

  October 10, 2013 | Henry Baltazar

  In the first half of 2013, Forrester advised over 100 enterprise IT professionals on their most important storage decisions. After analyzing these engagements, we found that the five categories of...

• Report Quick Take: Cisco Acquires Whiptail: A Flashy Entrance Into The Storage Landscape

  Flash Array Technology Opens Up Database, HPC, And Virtualization Opportunities For Cisco

  September 12, 2013 | Henry Baltazar

  On September 10, 2013, Cisco Systems announced the acquisition of flash array startup Whiptail for $415 million in cash. With this important deal, Cisco enters the storage market. In the near term,...

• Report Quick Take: Western Digital Acquires Virident And sTec: A Billion-Dollar SSD And Flash Card Bet

  The Time Is Now To Develop Your SSD And Flash Strategy

  September 10, 2013 | Henry Baltazar

  On September 9, 2013, Western Digital announced its acquisition of PCIe flash card specialist Virident Systems for $685 million. This comes fewer than three months after Western Digital's...

• Report Build Your Business Case For All-Flash Storage Arrays

  Start With Performance-Sensitive Applications, But Emphasize The Operational Cost Benefits

  August 21, 2013 | Henry Baltazar

  Consider your most critical technology-powered assets. For retailers, this is your eCommerce site. For financial service firms, this is your trading platform. If you run these assets on hard-drive...

• Report Master The Eight Disruptors That Will Transform Business Technology Resiliency In 2013

  February 15, 2013 | Rachel A. Dines

  This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

• Report Optimize IT Infrastructure Around Key Workloads

  September 7, 2012 | Richard Fichera, Andre Kindness, Dave Bartoletti

  The inside-out approach of engineers focused on technology for its own sake must stop: Your business cares about outcomes and holistic services, not server, storage, and network technologies. For...

• Report Cache Is King In Cloud Storage Enablement

  How Cloud Storage Gateways Can Facilitate Storage Across The WAN

  August 6, 2012 | Andrew Reichman

  Cloud storage options abound these days, and enterprise infrastructure and operations professionals are eager to take advantage of expected cost and flexibility benefits. But for most...

• Report Top 10 Storage Predictions For I&O Professionals

  February 24, 2012 | Andrew Reichman, Vanessa Alvarez

  Storage teams faced another busy year as their businesses produced larger volumes of data than ever before and sought better storage performance to feed applications that support business growth....

• Report Market Overview: Disk Libraries, Q1 2012

  Identity Crisis No More: The Backup Market Shifts From Virtual Tape To Treating Disk As Disk In Open Systems Environments

  January 17, 2012 | Rachel A. Dines

  The use of disk in backup environments has been accelerating for several years. We've now reached a point where most infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are using disk in some way,...