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• 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: Midrange Storage, Q3 2011

  Unified Storage Architectures Enable Private Cloud Environments

  August 29, 2011 | Vanessa Alvarez

  The storage industry is undergoing a transition. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) execs know that storage is a core component of enabling private cloud environments. But to achieve cloud...

• Report Updated Q4 2010: Market Overview: Backup Software-As-A-Service

  The First Of Many IT Ops-Focused SaaS Offerings

  December 3, 2010 | Rachel A. Dines

  It's been almost two years since we last produced this report, and during that time the vendor landscape has changed considerably; however, one constant remains true: Backup is a struggle for both...

• Report Controlling Storage Cost Amid High Growth

  February 3, 2010 | Stephanie Balaouras, Andrew Reichman

  Storage capacity has been growing fast for the past five years, and an end to the recession is only likely to spur further expansion as projects are re-funded. Recent data shows storage commanding...

• Report 2008 Trends In Backup And Data Protection

  April 2, 2008 | Stephanie Balaouras

  Backup remains as problematic as ever, but there are several emerging trends in technology and functional convergence that should address some of the biggest challenges: increasing capacities,...