Solution Set

Make an apples-to-apples comparison of European co-location providers to select the most appropriate option for the organization's current and future needs.

Tool

Identify leading candidates in the European Co-location/Managed Services market using the Info-Tech European Co-location/Managed Services Vendor Shortlist Tool to generate a customized shortlist of vendors based on your key priorities.

Solution Set

A utility infrastructure IaaS alone does not equal cloud. A range of emerging solutions offer to pave that last mile to full-function IaaS cloud services.

Template/Policy

IT departments are being asked to respond to interest (and sometimes direct pressure) in cloud computing. This strategy position template will help objectively define IT's position on the cloud for the organization and set realistic expectations.

Note

A cloud management solution alone does not create an internal cloud. However, it does put the final piece of the cloud puzzle in place once a mature, standardized, and virtualized environment is established.

The cloud market has seen tremendous growth in the last year and can offer great value to IT organizations. Info-Tech's research will help your organization navigate through the waters of cloud storage.

Solution Set

The Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market is still in its nascent form with a large and diverse set of vendors. This size ensures that there is an IaaS option for all sizes and types of enterprise.

Vendor Research

This agenda discussion document positions Info-Tech Indaba's upcoming cloud research. By uncovering the keys to cloud success, the research will help vendors ensure their channel's willingness to sell their cloud offerings, rather than their...

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Info-Tech conducted its own market evaluation of 13 Cloud IaaS solutions. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy the company's requirements, before sending out RFPs and scheduling vendor demonstrations.

Note

The Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market is still in its nascent form with a large and diverse set of vendors. This size ensures that there is an IaaS option for all sizes and types of enterprise.

Vendor Research

Enterprises of all sizes are evaluating the potential of cloud computing for greater flexibility, speed, and lower costs in service delivery. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is one of three services typically based in externally maintained compute...

Vendor Research

Most enterprises are in the early stages of evaluating various cloud-based options including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. IaaS involves the direct rental of abstracted compute services, such as processing and storage.

Solution Set

Adoption of the cloud has seen incredible growth in the last year, and has passed a tipping point. The impact of adoption will be experienced throughout IT.

Vendor Research

Only 30% of organizations have deployed a cloud solution today; nonetheless, 97% of business leaders surveyed by Info-Tech believe the cloud will play a role in their business in the next three to five years.

Vendor Research

The cloud is seen as an opportunity for large and small enterprises alike to achieve greater efficiencies at a lower cost, but there's still confusion about what exactly the cloud is and how it can help. The cloud is not a product, and it...

While cloud computing hype can be overblown, actual benefits are out there. Start by understanding the types of cloud service and what they can do for you. This note cuts through the cloud hype so you can start reaping tangible results.

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Info-Tech developed these three rules of utility infrastructure investment as a way of establishing what matters to the business in increasingly abstracted infrastructures. Though cloud buzz calls both internal and external utility...

Note

Info-Tech's recent survey on cloud computing has revealed that although it is still early days, the external cloud is taking hold in small enterprises. And it appears to be more than just a fad: IT decision makers expect the external cloud to...

Solution Set

Cloud computing offers a compelling opportunity for small businesses to reduce IT costs. Cloud costs are orders of magnitude lower than the per unit costs of internally developed IT resources.

Video

Virtualization heavyweights, such as VMware and Citrix, would like their software to be the foundation for both internal and external compute clouds. In vCloud Express, VMware and hosting partners are tackling the fast and inexpensive...

The internal cloud - a term increasingly used by datacenter infrastructure vendors - is only the most recent name for a converged utility infrastructure. Understanding private cloud infrastructure as a kind of birthday cake, with hardware layers...

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Think of private cloud infrastructure as a kind of birthday cake with hardware layers and virtualization icing. This will be critical in evaluating emerging server, storage, network and virtualization offerings. As the icing on the cake,...

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Think of private cloud infrastructure as a kind of birthday cake with hardware layers and virtualization icing. This will be critical in evaluating emerging server, storage, network and virtualization offerings. Blades, and particularly blades...

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Think of private cloud infrastructure as a kind of birthday cake with hardware layers and virtualization icing. This will be critical in evaluating emerging server, storage, network and virtualization offerings. 10 Gigibit Ethernet is a key...

The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model can offer considerable operational benefits, but it also challenges enterprises to better manage data that is dispersed across multiple stores and locations. IT leaders must ensure that their SaaS...

The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model is most beneficial when enterprises have the ability to access and manipulate the data stored by SaaS providers alongside that which already resides within on-premise infrastructure. IT leaders...

For hype alone, 2008 will be the year of "the cloud." Among those jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon will be the major players in enterprise infrastructure virtualization. But making the cloud an external extension of internal utility...