(1-Feb-2012) The toll of cyber crime appears to be rising as criminals become more sophisticated and more focused on financial gain. And while businesses are doing a bit better at protecting themselves, criminals have become better at bypassing...

Tool

This tool allows enterprises to generate a customized shortlist of vendors based on required capabilities and future requirements around server consolidation, virtual infrastructure management, and the internal cloud.

Vendor Research

This report helps vendors and solution providers in understanding the market dynamics surrounding cloud adoption decision making. The analysis and guidance provided will help in selling and marketing cloud-related offerings.

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Three or four years ago keynotes and announcements at VMworld were all about cool server tricks. Today, as VMware seeks to be an infrastructure cloud platform, servers are just one layer in the infrastructure cake of the "virtual data center."

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...

Template/Policy

This template is designed to provide server virtualization vendors with a consistent set of instructions, ensuring an objective comparison of product features, all while evaluating ease-of-use, and ease of setup and configuration. This template...

Tool

This TCO tool provides organizations with a framework for estimating the costs associated with deploying a server virtualization solution relative to a server refresh, or an alternate vendor.

Template/Policy

Organizations embarking on the selection process for server virtualization may elect to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) after determining their final selection criteria.

Tool

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

Tool

Info-Tech Research Group has established that savings through lower one-time and ongoing server acquisition costs is the strongest argument in a business case for server virtualization. Use this calculator to get a broad sense of the...

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...

Video

As we look back at the year that was 2010, it was the economy that had the biggest impact on enterprise IT departments, albeit in a more positive way than it did in 2009. While the purse strings didn't loosen substantially, the move away from...

Interest in cloud computing is strong among small enterprises as they explore potential for cost savings and agility. The disruptive potential of the cloud exists, but be careful to set appropriate cost saving expectations when considering cloud...

Small enterprises are often able to make higher risk investments in emerging technology for lower costs, and to take advantage of large enterprise capabilities, such as security and flexibility. Cloud computing is one such technology that can...

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.

(5-Nov-09) Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corp. and VMware Inc. have formed a coalition to accelerate data centre virtualization and the transition to private clouds. The CEOs of the three companies announced the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE)...