Solution Set

Storage is a big ticket item that often only gets purchased every three to five years. Get best practice buyer's advise that leverages the purchasing experience of your IT peers.

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Storage is a big ticket item that often only gets purchased every three to five years. Get best practice buyer's advise that leverages the purchasing experience of your IT peers.

Solution Set

This vendor landscape looks at the blade system market in order to provide recommendations on which vendors are most suitable for your organization's server needs.

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This vendor landscape looks at the blade system market in order to provide recommendations on which vendors are most suitable for your organization's server needs.

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The growth of modern data centers came in the late 1990s during the dot.com era from organizations requiring continuous operation and fast Internet connectivity. Now server and desktop virtualization are creating the need for faster core...

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This tool allows enterprises to generate a customized shortlist of vendors based on required capabilities and future requirements for blade systems.

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Use this tool to generate a customized shortlist of vendors based on the capabilities your organization requires in an email archiving platform.

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After responses to an RFP have been received, enterprises considering email archiving platforms need a way to compare potential solutions. Use this RFP scoring tool to record and evaluate features across vendors.

Template/Policy

Use this template to help create an RFP that lists features according to your enterprise email archiving platform requirements.

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This tool allows enterprises to generate a customized shortlist of vendors based on required capabilities and future requirements around disk-based backup.

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EMC Data Domain continues to dominate, but selection is becoming more difficult as the market matures. Products appear similar, but an in-depth look into features and context will match you with the right vendor.

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Info-Tech conducted a market evaluation of eight leading data center networking vendors. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy your enterprise's requirements, before contacting channel partners and...

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In selecting consolidated storage, the goal is to meet strategic business requirements while getting the most for your dollar. Find the best fit for your needs in an increasing consolidated vendor landscape.

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The Storage Vendor Shortlist Tool allows enterprises to profile their storage solution requirements and generate a rank ordered vendor shortlist from a fixed list of vendors.

Template/Policy

Organizations embarking on the selection process for a storage vendor may select to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) after determining their final selection criteria.

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For organizations that have issued a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) to evaluate consolidated storage vendors, gathering and scoring the various responses can be difficult and time consuming. This tool enables enterprises to evaluate and...

Template/Policy

This script provides questions that you can explore with a reseller to clarify the specific value add that the reseller brings to the engagement. Use this interview to help solidify your vendor choice.

Vendor Research

This report is designed to help vendors and solution providers understand the market dynamics surrounding consolidated storage. The analysis and guidance provided will help in selling and marketing consolidated storage solutions.

The general feeling in the Valley right now seems to be that there is a dearth of really new ideas or companies in the hopper. DEMO was flat, everyone has their Cleantech investments in place, and people are tired of talking about Facebook for...

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When it comes to purchasing desktops and laptops, avoid buyers remorse and negotiate the best deal.

It takes many things to make a success in the hyper-competitive computer hardware market. This is even more true for the sub-categories of personal computers, desktops, CarryAlongs (pads and netbooks), media players, and smartphones.

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Tracking IT hardware and software assets via spreadsheets and manual processes quickly becomes inefficient and ineffective when enterprises grow beyond 250 users. Selecting and making use of an enterprise IT asset management solution can net...

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Early in 2010, Info-Tech predicted that it would be the year of the tablet. Was the prediction accurate? It was, although many vendors have not moved as quickly as expected getting their tablets to market. By the end of 2011, every major (and...

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Blades make effective building blocks for a consolidated server utility infrastructure. But first be sure that blades are really appropriate for your enterprise server goals. Then decide which blade system is best.

There are times when something critically important is being missed by not only the larger, non-specialist community involved, but even by those at the core of the conversation. I am going to focus this week's issue on a problem of that nature.

A little jostling for market share is always a good thing, and the occasional sector blowup or segment technology revolution keeps everyone on their toes and healthy. But what happens when a global duopoly in the most strategic technology sector...

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The e-mail archiving market is a confusing mixture of storage vendors, compliance and e-discovery vendors, security vendors, and e-mail platform vendors. To complicate matters further, deployment options include on-premise, on-demand, and even...

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The hype leading up to the launch of the Apple iPad leads to ridiculously high expectations for the device. Some say it missed the mark in some respects, but the device lays the foundation for a new class of device that will undoubtedly find its...

(By Info-Tech Analyst James Quin - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com) So, a little over a week ago, I had to buy a new laptop. As someone who analyses the IT market for a living, it probably comes as no surprise...

(By Info-Tech Analyst Mark Tauschek - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com) Have you ever wondered how much extended warranties on desktops and laptops cost the enterprise? It is becoming increasingly challenging to...