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• Report Mitigating Ransomware With Zero Trust

  Bolster Your Defenses With Zero Trust Principles And Techniques

  June 8, 2020 | Chase Cunningham, Josh Zelonis, David Holmes

  Ransomware and malware continue to plague organizations across the globe. Entire industries have been affected and, in some cases, ground to a halt thanks to the scourge of ransomware attacks....

• Blog Dependability Demands Of Your VDI Infrastructure Are Skyrocketing

  May 19, 2020 | Naveen Chhabra

  In recent weeks, COVID-19 forced many organizations to either scale up their existing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments or set up a new one. Either of these approaches is a rushed...

• Report Now Tech: Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 21 HCI Providers

  May 12, 2020 | Naveen Chhabra

  You can use hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to simplify IT operations, deliver flexible and scalable infrastructure services, and reduce overall costs. But to realize these benefits, you'll...

• Report Hardware Remains Critical In A Software-Defined World

  Roadmap: The Infrastructure Transformation Playbook

  January 10, 2020 | Naveen Chhabra, Chris Gardner

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders live in a world of constant change. Their challenge is to embrace the latest technologies while continuing to maintain the tech they already have. I&O...

• Blog BC And DR Pros, We Need Your Help!

  November 22, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. Each year, we focus on a resiliency domain: IT disaster...

• Report The New Economics Of On-Premises Infrastructure

  Business Case: The Infrastructure Transformation Playbook

  November 18, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra, Abhijit Sunil

  While public cloud storage isn't a panacea due to concerns about privacy, security, governance, availability, and unpredictable costs, its operating expenditure (opex) cost model is attractive....

• Report Predictions 2020: Edge Computing

  New Form Factors, Partnership Strategies, And The Promise Of 5G Will Converge To Catapult Edge Toward Mainstream

  November 4, 2019 | Abhijit Sunil, Dan Bieler, Naveen Chhabra

  Edge computing has been among the most important trends associated with cloud computing and has enabled a multitude of use cases, beyond IoT and embedded systems, for infrastructure and operations...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Storage Technologies For Business Data, Q4 2019

  Eighteen Technologies Underpin Business Data Storage

  October 21, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  A firm's choice of technologies for storing business data as it passes through all stages of its lifecycle affects its ability to serve customers. To find the data storage technology that will best...

• Report Four Technologies Combine To Protect You From Ransomware Attacks

  October 18, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  As the ones responsible for recovering from outages, infrastructure and operations (I&O) pros have successfully managed recoveries from all failures but one: ransomware. Ransomware attacks do not...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2019

  The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  September 12, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  In our 40-criterion evaluation of data resiliency solution vendors, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Actifio, Cohesity, Commvault, Dell EMC, Druva, IBM, Micro Focus, Rubrik, Veeam, and...

• Blog The Data Protection Market Is Reforming: Hedvig Is Commvault’s Stake In The Ground

  September 5, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  The world of data protection — once considered a static and back-office service — is changing considerably. There’s been a lot of momentum in this marketplace over the past few years, especially...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Disaster-Recovery-As-A-Service Providers, Q2 2019

  The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  April 17, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  In our 34-criterion evaluation of disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) providers, we identified the eight most significant ones — DXC Technology, Flexential, IBM, iland, InterVision, Recovery...

• Report Assess The Pain-Gain Tradeoff Of Multicloud Strategies

  Learn The Difference Between Strategic Multicloud And Ineffective Complexity

  March 19, 2019 | Lauren E. Nelson, Andre Kindness, Naveen Chhabra

  Multicloud and hybrid cloud are equally useless terms, and yet, in reality, they define your obvious cloud strategy. Having multiple platforms, cloud and noncloud, allows for flexibility and...

• Report Design For Dependability By Embracing A Future Of Trusted Technology

  Reliable Services Are Critical For A Secure, Always-On Economy

  February 25, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  As the world evolves into a connected web of services that weave devices, users, and data in a seamless user experience, the megacloud providers have set expectations — for always-on capabilities,...

• Blog Participate In The Forrester Tech Tide™: Storage Technologies For Business Data Survey

  February 4, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  Enterprises have a variety of applications; the sheer scale of data volumes, data types, and business processes associated with them is putting unprecedented pressure on storage infrastructure....

• Report Six Important Considerations That Affect Backup Data Location

  Don't Push Your Data Out To The Cloud Just Because You Can

  January 9, 2019 | Naveen Chhabra

  Storage was one of the first public cloud services. Public cloud storage has since gained traction, as it allows firms to inexpensively archive large volumes of inactive data in a remote location....

• Report Test Frequently To Ensure Disaster Recovery Readiness

  Annual Testing Doesn't Serve Business Expectations

  December 14, 2018 | Naveen Chhabra

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders are responsible for building disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure, managing operations, and ensuring that DR failover is successful every time. Practice...

• Blog Data Protection Vendors Are Emerging From The Stone Age

  November 15, 2018 | Naveen Chhabra

  A little over a year and a half ago, I completed an evaluation of data resiliency vendors, published as “The Forrester Wave: Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2017.” I gleaned many insights...

• Report Embrace Cloud Economics For On-Premises Enterprise Storage

  October 16, 2018 | Naveen Chhabra

  Public cloud storage isn't a panacea, considering enterprise concerns about privacy, governance, availability, and unpredictable costs, but the basic opex cost model is attractive. Enterprises are...

• Blog The Forrester Wave™ Evaluation Of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Vendors Is Making The Rounds

  September 26, 2018 | Naveen Chhabra

  The hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) marketplace has gained significant momentum. Customers are consolidating and standardizing the use of this infrastructure; many vendors have launched their...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q3 2018

  The 11 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  September 25, 2018 | Naveen Chhabra

  In our 36-criterion evaluation of software-based hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Cisco, DataCore, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE),...

• Report Now Tech: Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q3 2018

  Forrester's Overview Of 14 Hyperconverged Infrastructure Vendors

  July 12, 2018 | Naveen Chhabra

  You can use hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to deliver flexible and scalable infrastructure services, simplify IT operations, and reduce overall costs. But to access these benefits, you'll...