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  Report Back Up Your SaaS Data — Because Most SaaS Providers Don't

  Cloud-To-Cloud Backup Is The Only Practical Option For SaaS Data Protection

  December 19, 2016 | Naveen Chhabra

  Software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud providers are popular elements of a sound business technology (BT) strategy. While the vendors provide the applications, almost all mention explicitly in their...

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  Report Vendor Landscape: Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2016

  Comprehensive Data Resiliency Will Lead The Next Wave Of Solutions

  August 25, 2016 | Naveen Chhabra

  Today's business technology (BT) world leaves no room for downtime, so firms of all kinds must embrace the latest technology solutions to meet their data resiliency needs. I&O pros can choose from...

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  Report Brief: New Data Resiliency Approaches Render Backup Obsolete

  Expect Failure, Plan For It, And You Will Succeed At Serving Customers

  February 5, 2016 | Naveen Chhabra

  Technology service disruptions have far-reaching effects that can cost your business customers if you don't take the right approach to resiliency. Backup systems have been a staple of business...

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  Report Inquiry Spotlight: Business Technology Resiliency, H1 2015

  Move Forward With Business Technology Resiliency

  July 22, 2015 | Henry Baltazar

  Business technology resiliency (BTR) tools such as backup have long been a part of traditional infrastructures, serving as a safety net for revenue-generating applications and systems. More...

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  Report Market Overview: Enterprise Endpoint Backup And Recovery Solutions

  Protect And Enable The Anytime, Anywhere Worker With Client Data Protection

  July 3, 2014 | Chris Sherman

  The information workers of today look very different from those just a few years ago. Today, they work in more places on more devices and expect services to be available 24x7. They create data on...

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  Report Key I&O Technology Trends To Watch In 2014, Part 2

  Embrace New Approaches To Radically Transform Business Resiliency

  May 14, 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...

• For Security & Risk Professionals

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  Report TechRadar™: Data Security, Q2 2014

  Tools To Define, Dissect, And Defend Your Data

  April 22, 2014 | Stephanie Balaouras, John Kindervag

  We designed this report to help security and risk (S&R) leaders develop their road map of data security technologies using Forrester's TechRadar methodology. As data volumes explode, it is becoming...

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  Report Back Up Your Critical Cloud Data Before It's Too Late

  Cloud-To-Cloud Backup Emerges As A Practical Option For Cloud Data Protection

  February 4, 2014 | Rachel A. Dines

  For years, it has been standard practice to back up your critical data. You store several copies locally for operational recovery and send copies off-site (electronically or physically) for...

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  Report An S&R Pro's Guide To Security To, In, And From The Cloud

  Embrace Cloud As Part Of The Shift To Business Technology

  December 31, 2013 | Andras Cser, Stephanie Balaouras

  As organizations rapidly adopt cloud-based infrastructure, platform, and application services, cloud security continues to be a major concern. Now, security and risk professionals need to provide a...

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  Report Tech Spotlight: Endpoint Backup In The Enterprise

  In The Vacuum Left By IT, Employees Are Resorting To Their Own Backup Methods

  September 4, 2013 | Rachel A. Dines

  There is no stopping the rise of the anytime, anywhere worker. These employees are highly mobile, they use a variety of devices to do their jobs, and they work from many different locations during...

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  Report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Backup And Recovery Software, Q2 2013

  The Six Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 28, 2013 | Rachel A. Dines

  In Forrester's 61-criteria evaluation of enterprise backup and recovery software vendors, we identified the six most significant software providers — ASG, CommVault, EMC, HP, IBM, and...

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  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...

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  Report Move Beyond Disaster Recovery And Prepare For Business Technology Resiliency

  September 13, 2012 | Rachel A. Dines, Stephanie Balaouras

  This report outlines the vision of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives planning their organization's business technology (BT) resiliency strategy — the...

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  Report Strategy Deep Dive: Imbibing Macs In The Enterprise

  Apple Mac Shops Share Their Secrets For Success

  September 4, 2012 | David K. Johnson

  Chances are that you have employees using Apple Macs at your firm today, and they're doing this without the support and guidance of the infrastructure and operations (I&O) organization. IT...

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  Report Updated Q3 2011: Backup Versus Archiving: Firms Need Separate Strategies For Each

  July 6, 2011 | Rachel A. Dines, Brian W. Hill

  "What's the difference between a backup and an archive?" and "Do I need to have separate backups and archives?" are two common questions that Forrester receives from enterprise clients. Despite the...

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  Report Develop Your Road Map For Business Technology Resiliency Tools

  June 14, 2011 | Rachel A. Dines

  This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their road map of business technology (BT) resiliency tools using Forrester's...

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  Report Demand Insights: The SMB Hardware Infrastructure Market

  SMBs' Plans For Servers, Storage, Virtualization, Form Factors, And Cloud Computing

  April 20, 2011 | Tim Harmon

  Suppliers of infrastructure hardware to small and medium-size business (SMB) buyers are poised for better times, given plans by SMBs to upgrade their software and associated hardware...

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  Report Wake-Up Call: You Aren't Ready For A Disaster

  Spending, Testing, And Maintenance Of DR Plans Are Down, But Confidence Levels Are Up

  February 9, 2011 | Rachel A. Dines

  How would you rate your ability to recover your data center in the event of a site failure or a disaster? The vast majority of your peers surveyed in a 2010 joint Forrester Research/Disaster...

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  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...

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  Report Market Overview: Enterprise-Class Backup And Recovery Software

  November 19, 2010 | Rachel A. Dines

  Backup is not the sexiest process in infrastructure and operations; it's akin to getting your teeth cleaned: necessary, but often painful. Many enterprises struggle with exponential data growth,...

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  Report Update Q4 2010: The Universe Of Corporate PC Backup Options

  Protecting The Corporate PCs Is As Important As Protecting Servers

  November 18, 2010 | Rachel A. Dines, Christian Kane

  What's your reaction to this scenario? Your CEO leaves his laptop, full of mission-critical (but encrypted) data, in a cab. One frantic phone call later and we learn that a far-sighted employee had...

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  Report The Past, Present, And Future Of Replication

  Upgrade Continuity And Recovery With Replication

  August 17, 2010 | Stephanie Balaouras, Rachel A. Dines

  Tape is not dead, and in fact, a large number of companies still rely heavily on tape for disaster recovery (DR). Tape is affordable and removable, but as the requirement to recover IT services...

• For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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  Report Database Tools Fill Gaps In Vendors' Bundled Tools

  DBAs Gain Advanced Yet Usable Features For Heterogeneous DBMS

  August 12, 2010 | Noel Yuhanna

  Vendors continue adding new and improved database administration features to their database management systems (DBMS) to automate more functions, yet enterprises with large and complex environments...

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  Report Business Users Are Not Ready For Cloud Storage

  Current And Planned Adoption Of Storage-As-A-Service Is Minimal For Now

  January 22, 2010 | Andrew Reichman

  There's been a lot of talk over the past year about moving data to the cloud, from storage vendors and IT professionals alike. Why? Given that data storage capacities are growing at 30% to 40% per...

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  Report Consolidated Backup Strategies For Remote Sites

  October 30, 2009 | Stephanie Balaouras

  A remote site can be as small as a branch office location with five employees or as large as a regional sales office with 50 employees. Regardless of a company's size, end users are creating and...