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Peer Adoption: The State Of Server Virtualization  (471 KB PPT)

by Christopher Voce, November 20, 2009

This data chart examines the usage and trends of server virtualization in enterprises today as well as the motivations that drive adoption.

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Virtual Machine Consolidation Ratio Benchmark, 2009

How Many Virtual Machines Can Enterprises Fit On A Single Physical Server?

by Rachel A. Dines, Galen Schreck, October 23, 2009

According to a recent Forrester survey, the physical to virtual consolidation ratio of server virtualization users varies significantly by company and industry. If your organization has implemented server virtualization but not realized the expected cost . . .

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Virtualization Is This Season's Cap Management

Capacity Management In A Virtual World

by Simon Yates, June 17, 2009

With improved service performance, coupled with the rise of virtualization and the limits of hardware sprawl, Forrester anticipates improvements to the capacity management process. Data centers will make a comeback. They'll be different though, and better, . . .

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Capacity Management In A Virtual World

Transforming The Traditional Process To Serve Virtualization Imperatives

by Jean-Pierre Garbani, April 17, 2009

Traditional capacity planning is seen as an exercise in forecasting the alignment of hardware resources to enterprise activity growth. Cheap systems meant that this was eventually considered to have little value: Why use scarce and expensive intellectual . . .

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IBM's Bid For Sun Is About More Than Just Solaris And Java

Sun's Innovations Can Improve IBM's Prospects Outside Enterprise Markets

by Frank E. Gillett, March 24, 2009

Vendor strategists are calling Forrester asking what we make of the possibility of IBM buying Sun Microsystems. The conventional wisdom is that IBM wants to capture the Solaris/SPARC customer base to boost the AIX/Power business and own Java to protect . . .

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The State Of Emerging SMB Hardware Trends: 2008 To 2009

Business Data Services North America And Europe

by Frank E. Gillett, February 27, 2009

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 2008. Hot topics include server virtualization, cloud computing, . . .

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The State Of Emerging Enterprise Hardware Trends: 2008 To 2009

Business Data Services North America And Europe

by Frank E. Gillett, February 27, 2009

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 2008. Hot topics include server virtualization, green IT, . . .

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Ten Common Questions About x86 Server Virtualization

It's As Much A Process Change As It Is A Technology Shift

by James Staten, June 17, 2008

Virtualization on x86-based server hardware is moving from early adopters to more mainstream adoption. However, there remain questions about the technology and its implications for the current IT environment and processes that make its implementation . . .

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X86 Virtualization Drives New Buyer Behavior

SMBs Will Adopt Enterprise-Style Approaches And Criteria For Servers

by Frank E. Gillett, May 23, 2008

Despite just a couple of year's experience with x86 server virtualization, IT managers have virtualized an average of almost one-quarter of their servers. And cost-cutting is no longer the sole motivation — business continuity and server manageability . . .

The State Of Asia Pacific Enterprise Technology Adoption: 2008

by Jonathan Browne, May 20, 2008

How are businesses in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region adopting technologies in the software, hardware, networks, and services categories, and what do they plan to do with IT budgets in the next 12 months? This document gives highlights of data collected . . .

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IBM's Server Appliance Will Change The Market For Small Business Computing

Lotus Foundations Server Adds Credibility To The Product Category

by Michael Speyer, May 8, 2008

Small businesses want sophisticated IT functionality, but their lack of IT resources requires that IT is delivered in a highly reliable no-touch manner. Linux-based server appliances have emerged to satisfy these requirements, but IBM's recent announcement . . .

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x86 Virtualization Adopters Hit The Tipping Point

It's Time For Software Marketers To Upgrade Offerings — Or Risk Customer Ire

by Frank E. Gillett, November 30, 2007

Server virtualization has gone mainstream — half of surveyed enterprise IT shops are using x86 server virtualization today, and two-thirds will by 2009. Enterprises using virtualization have an average of 24% of servers virtualized today and expect to . . .

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X86 Server Virtualization For High Availability And Disaster Recovery

How x86 Server Virtualization Affects Business Resiliency

by Stephanie Balaouras, Christopher Voce, October 24, 2007

To date, the primary driver behind the adoption of server virtualization has been consolidation. But as enterprises gain experience with the technology, additional uses and benefits are surfacing. According to a recent Forrester study, 49% of enterprises . . .

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Server Virtualization Usage, 2007  (138 KB PPT)

by Frank E. Gillett, October 11, 2007

This data chart presents results from Business Data Services that show trends in server virtualization adoption.

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Why Choose Linux On A Mainframe?

by Brad Day, January 17, 2007

To build a strong business case for running consolidated Linux workloads on an IBM System z9 architecture, a customer must first understand the core value proposition of the Linux operating system environment. Secondly, the customer must re-examine the . . .

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Decoding Virtualization's Present And Future

by Galen Schreck, January 9, 2007

X86 server virtualization has brought mainframe functionality at x86 prices. Although a boon for firms looking to extract more from their infrastructure, virtualization adds a new dimension of complexity to the way the data center is managed. VMware is . . .

Strategic Platforms — The Shift Continues

by Richard Fichera, June 22, 2004

Many of the world's largest enterprises are entering a new strategic planning cycle for their infrastructures, and central to the process is the choice of hardware platform and OS for new applications. At its most fundamental level, this choice for the . . .