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• Report Organize Your Infrastructure Team For Customer Obsession

  December 16, 2015 | Sophia I. Vargas, Naveen Chhabra, Dave Bartoletti

  Technology management is in the middle of a new evolutionary cycle that will transform infrastructure and operations (I&O) from its traditional role as infrastructure provider to its new role as a...

• Report Strategic Benchmarks 2014: Infrastructure Budgets And Priorities

  May 27, 2014 | Sophia I. Vargas

  This report is designed to provide infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology...

• 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 Case Study: News UK Transformed Its Data Center To Become More Agile

  December 6, 2013 | Sudhanshu Bhandari

  In the past decade, news media companies have witnessed substantial disruptive changes in their marketplace, spurring them to significantly accelerate their IT transformation initiatives. As we...

• Report Strategic Benchmarks 2013: IT Infrastructure

  IT Complexity And Growing Business Demands Orient Infrastructure Priorities Toward Increasing Hardware And Cost Efficiency

  May 8, 2013 | Sophia I. Vargas, Richard Fichera, Dave Bartoletti

  This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...

• Report Inquiry Spotlight: IT Consolidation, Q1 2009

  February 20, 2009 | James Staten

  Forrester has recognized consolidation as a success imperative for IT infrastructure and operations professionals for some time, and the recession has only increased that interest. In 2008,...

• Report The Green Data Center Starts With A Rationalized Application Portfolio: A Sprint Case Study

  How One IT Ops Group Generated Eco(nomic) Value By Removing Underutilized Apps And The Infrastructure Tied To Them

  February 12, 2009 | Doug Washburn

  Sprint's end goal was to cut costs, increase capacity, and reduce the carbon footprint of IT infrastructure in the data center — but that's not where they started. Recognizing that the data center...

• Report Retrofitting Your Data Center For Better Capacity

  October 29, 2008 | Galen Schreck, James Staten

  Data centers are expected to last 25 to 30 years, but you need to periodically refresh your environmental gear for better capacity. Many companies can't deploy modern server equipment like blades...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: IT Consolidation Consultancies, Q2 2008

  IBM And Accenture Lead A Strong Field Of Worldwide Providers

  June 13, 2008 | James Staten

  In Forrester's 42-criteria evaluation of IT consolidation consultancies, we found that IBM Global Services (IGS) and Accenture led the pack due to their breadth of capabilities and superior ability...

• Report Topic Overview: IT Consolidation

  Rationalizing Data Center Infrastructure Investments For Greatest Efficiency

  April 14, 2008 | James Staten

  The majority of IT infrastructure and operations professionals today are rationalizing IT to some degree. This leads to IT consolidation projects for most large organizations, as the finite...

• Report Five Trends That Will Shape The IT Infrastructure And Operations Profession In 2008

  December 14, 2007 | Simon Yates

  2008 will be a busy one for IT infrastructure and operations professionals. With CIOs openly espousing the benefits of server virtualization and losing sleep over the real costs of power leakage in...

• Report IT Consolidation Drives Active-Active Data Center Configurations

  December 7, 2007 | Stephanie Balaouras

  Historically, alternate data centers have been an expensive insurance policy; the duplicate resources in this data center (DC) stood idle so that in case a disaster or some other calamity disrupted...

• Report Measuring The Cost Of IT Consolidation

  Identifying The Elements That Contribute To Economic Analysis

  November 12, 2007 | Andrew Reichman

  Consolidation can help to optimize cost structure for IT organizations with limited resources. Technology enablers like virtualization and remote computing eliminate requirements for dedicated...