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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  Report Predictions 2015: The Days Of Fighting The Cloud Are Over

  November 13, 2014 | James Staten, Lauren E. Nelson

  Cloud computing is arguably one of the most disruptive fields ever in technology management. CIOs are a primary force driving the enterprise business technology (BT) agenda, so you need to...

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  Report Brief: The Software-Defined Data Center Is Still A Work In Progress

  Four Recommendations For Embarking On Your SDDC Journey

  August 27, 2014 | Richard Fichera

  To accelerate business growth, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals must understand and ultimately master four key I&O-related trends: 1) continually consolidate and optimize the...

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  Report Market Overview: Software-Only Storage

  Your Next Array Should Be An Application

  August 1, 2014 | Henry Baltazar

  Hardware appliances have dominated the enterprise data storage landscape for decades, but storage is not immune from the software-defined transformation taking place in data centers. With momentum...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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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...

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  Report What The Evolution Of Cloud Storage Means For I&O

  February 14, 2014 | Henry Baltazar, James Staten

  Over the last few years, the capabilities and reach of cloud storage services have evolved rapidly, with many organizations expressing interest in storage-as-a-service. With or without the support...

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  Report Quick Take: Breaking Down VMworld 2013

  VMware Delivers A Strong SDDC Message, An Incremental Cloud Story, And A Relatively Weak End User Computing Message

  September 19, 2013 | Dave Bartoletti, Rachel A. Dines

  Is the traditional data center about to be disrupted by the cloud? Not if VMware can help it. Last week's annual VMworld conference in San Francisco drew over 20,000 infrastructure and operations...

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  Report Quick Take: How Enterprises Should Approach Cloud Storage In The Wake Of Nirvanix Closure

  Enterprises Need A Data Mobility Strategy That Is Multi-Cloud And Hybrid Cloud

  September 19, 2013 | Henry Baltazar, Rachel A. Dines

  On September 17, 2013, indications from press, partners, and customers have revealed that Nirvanix is shutting down its cloud storage services on September 30. While Nirvanix has not yet made a...

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  Report Services For The Digital Self

  The Battle To Serve You . . . And Profit From Your Data

  September 3, 2013 | Frank E. Gillett

  People must manage an exploding array of digital content that they create or are responsible for, both at work and at home. We call this collection the digital self, and it includes everything from...

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  Report Software-Defined Storage Will Sound The Death Knell For Traditional Storage Provisioning

  May 13, 2013 | Henry Baltazar

  Storage budgets are not keeping pace with the rapidly expanding data stores, and this is putting an extraordinary amount of pressure on storage administrators. Storage vendors have responded to new...

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  Report Evaluate New Converged Infrastructures To Underpin The Software-Defined Data Center

  The Next Evolution Of IT Infrastructure For Supporting Fully Virtualized Environments Takes A Storage-Centric Approach

  March 20, 2013 | Richard Fichera

  The transformation of virtual computing environments into fully software-defined data centers is disrupting the architecture of the underlying physical infrastructure. The recent wave of converged...

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  Report Assess Your IT Infrastructure Maturity

  October 23, 2012 | Dave Bartoletti, Glenn O'Donnell

  Even though spending on server, storage, network, and facilities infrastructure consumes 50% of budgets, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders struggle to answer two critical questions: 1)...

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  Report Forrester's IT Infrastructure Maturity Assessment

  October 15, 2012 | Dave Bartoletti, Glenn O'Donnell

  Forrester's IT infrastructure maturity assessment evaluates your current and desired state maturity across 24 key IT infrastructure elements within four top-level domains: oversight, people,...

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  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...

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  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....

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  Report Big Data Needs More Than Just Big Storage

  I&O Teams Must Investigate A New Storage Architecture To Support Business Expectations Of Big Data

  September 30, 2011 | Vanessa Alvarez

  Despite the hype, big data is a reality for organizations today. Data, in any form, has been on a path of explosive growth, and the reality of zettabytes lies in the near future. This data —...

• For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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  Report Virtualization In Greater China 2010 To 2011: End User Adoption Trends

  September 15, 2011 | Michael Barnes

  This report provides an overview of virtualization end user adoption trends in Greater China. It focuses not only on adoption trends but also on deployment patterns, demand drivers, adoption...

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  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...

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  Report File Storage Costs Less In The Cloud Than In-House

  We Calculate A 74% Cost Reduction, But It's Hard To Compare Apples To Apples

  August 25, 2011 | Andrew Reichman

  There's a great deal of hype surrounding cloud delivery models of all flavors, with the assumption that it will usher in a new era of cheaper, better IT. But most I&O organizations struggle to...

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  Report Cost Analysis Tool: Cloud Versus Internal Storage Deployment

  August 25, 2011 | Andrew Reichman

  A customizable Forrester companion tool to the Economics of IT series docs.