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• Report The I&O Pro's Buying Guide For Hybrid Cloud Management

  Despite Close Vendor Scores On The Forrester Wave™, HCM Tools Vary Significantly

  September 13, 2018 | Lauren Nelson

  Hybrid cloud management (HCM) isn't a new market, but to date, it hasn't been particularly successful. However, this is changing, with new investment from enterprises and vendors alike. As the...

• Report The Software-Defined Data Center Comes Of Age

  October 30, 2017 | Richard Fichera, Chris Gardner

  Traditional data center thinking has ended. Better automation tools, container abstractions, software-defined networks (SDNs), and composable infrastructure have ushered in unprecedented...

• Report Vendor Landscape: Private Cloud In China, 2017

  Pick The Appropriate Private Cloud Solutions To Build The Foundation For Your Digital Transformation

  April 19, 2017 | Travis Wu, Frank Liu

  Private cloud is becoming a driving force behind enterprise digital transformation. But infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals seeking to adopt private cloud face challenges in...

• Report Vendor Landscape: Technology Business Management Solutions

  Customer-Obsessed Firms Must Manage Tech-Based Customer Value

  October 31, 2016 | Eveline Oehrlich, Sophia I. Vargas

  CIOs and their leadership teams can no longer leave the analysis, management, and optimization of technology management costs to spreadsheets and uncoordinated processes. Those who want a seat at...

• Report Vendor Landscape: Software-Defined Data Centers

  The SDDC Is Still A Work In Progress, But Progress Is Swift

  September 1, 2016 | Robert Stroud, Richard Fichera

  To meet needs arising from the unprecedented acceleration of the digital business, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are shifting their attention from physical infrastructure to...

• Report Vendor Landscape: Hosted Private Cloud, Q3 2016

  This Cloud Model Brings Both Temporary And Persistent Customer Benefits

  August 24, 2016 | Lauren Nelson, Bill Martorelli

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals wisely continue to adopt cloud for their business technology agendas. Cloud purists concentrate primarily on public services, and cloud skeptics...

• Report Market Overview: Use Project Services To Accelerate Infrastructure Transformation

  September 1, 2015 | Bill Martorelli

  In the face of unprecedented and escalating demands on information technology brought on by the age of the customer, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are being forced to rapidly...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Hosted Private Cloud Solutions, Q4 2014

  November 12, 2014 | Lauren Nelson

  This emerging market Forrester Wave™ report focuses on hosted private cloud solutions. In our 25-criteria evaluation, we identified the 16 most significant providers — AT&T, Blue Box, Canopy,...

• Report Strategic Benchmarks 2014: Server Virtualization

  March 6, 2014 | Dave Bartoletti

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives and their engineering teams often ask Forrester two questions about server virtualization: Have we virtualized as many workloads as our peers, and how...

• Report PaaS Market Dynamics in China, 2012 To 2017

  January 14, 2013 | Charlie Dai

  Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is garnering attention and focus from multiple corners of the Chinese market as traditional IT vendors, independent software vendors (ISVs), telcos, and Internet...

• Report Market Overview: Intrusion Prevention Systems, Q2 2011

  A Mature Space, IPS Is Still The Bulwark Of Network Security

  May 4, 2011 | John Kindervag

  An intrusion prevention system (IPS) complements traditional firewalls by inspecting the entire network packet looking for malicious traffic that is often invisible to Layer 3 firewalls. While...

• Report Services-Led Solutions Reshape The Security Market

  Redefining Your Competition, Partners, And Value Proposition When Everyone's A Security Vendor

  April 28, 2011 | Jonathan Penn, Heidi Shey

  The IT security market is about to undergo a significant transformation toward becoming a services-led market. Several disruptive trends are overwhelming end user IT security practices, and the...

• Report Market Overview: Cloud-Based Email Vendors

  A Look At The Players And The Criteria You Should Use To Differentiate Them

  March 22, 2011 | Christopher Voce

  Infrastructure and operations executives have shown a tremendous interest in the cloud to provision email and collaboration services to their employees. Why? Cloud-based email and collaboration can...

• Report Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments, Q1 2011

  Single-Source Your Storage Vendor And Explore NFS As The Storage Protocol To Support Growing Virtual Server Environments

  March 15, 2011 | Andrew Reichman

  Virtual server technology is a unifying technology in IT infrastructure around the world. As maturity increases, more critical production applications are being deployed virtually, raising the...

• Report The Future Of Java

  Java Will Be Constrained By The Bounds Of Oracle's Business Model

  January 21, 2011 | John Rymer, Jeffrey Hammond

  Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun Microsystems. Oracle ended the impasse over a new core Java release, set out a road map for...

• 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 The Age Of Computing Diversity

  The ICT Industry Is Broadening Out From The Wintel Monoculture

  September 16, 2010 | Frank Gillett

  The computing industry is exiting an era built mostly on general-purpose, good enough central processing units (CPUs), servers, systems designs, software, Web apps, and client devices. These...

• Report The Mall Of Google

  The Internet Ad Giant Shifts Emphasis To Include Enterprise IT

  July 21, 2010 | Jeffrey Hammond

  Open source is no longer a "don't ask, don't tell" secret in enterprise application development shops: Increased executive awareness and evolving open source business models are leading shops to...

• Report Market Overview: European Ethernet Services

  VPLS Growth Drives Momentum As 40% Of European Firms Adopt Carrier Ethernet

  June 23, 2010 | Phil Sayer

  Almost 40% of European enterprises are now deploying carrier Ethernet services, with particular interest in VPLS-based Ethernet LAN (E-LAN) services. However, don't assume all service providers are...

• Report The State Of Emerging Enterprise Hardware: 2009 To 2010

  Business Data Services North America And Europe

  December 1, 2009 | Frank Gillett

  This report provides sample highlights of an extensive data set collected across North American and European enterprises via our Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q3...

• Report Examining Changes In IT Spend In Asia Pacific

  A Two-Speed IT Economy Is Emerging

  July 20, 2009 | Tim Sheedy

  IT budgets in the Asia Pacific region are hardly immune to the economic downturn — even in those economies witnessing growth, the IT spend is down. From January to March 2009, Forrester surveyed...

• Report The State Of Global Business Technology Adoption: 2009

  Business Data Services Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, And Africa

  June 30, 2009 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD, Heidi Shey

  This document provides highlights of an extensive data set collected via Forrester's Enterprise Global Technology Adoption Survey, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, And Africa, Q1 2009....