Note

Info-Tech predicts that thin clients will continue to entice enterprises to switch away from traditional desktops in favor of increased security and cost benefits.

Tool

Use this tool to find the best roadmap to your consumerization strategy. It will then provide the optimal roadmap to consumerization success, with detailed steps to follow that path.

Template/Policy

Learn about the implications of a broader roll-out by using this template to ask participants questions about the consumerization pilot project.

Note

Consumerization is not an option. You must allow consumer devices and unmanaged applications into your organization. Use this timely research to help you find the right path for the enterprise.

Solution Set

Vendor Landscape market evaluations provide an overview of the market so enterprises can ascertain the suitability of each vendor's solution. Vendors covered in this Thin Client VL include Wyse, HP, Pano Logic, Chip PC, IGEL, Samsung, Oracle,...

Solution Set

While Citrix and VMware are the dominant players in the desktop virtualization market, it's important to explore other options.

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.

Note

The primary mission of the infrastructure professional is deployment and maintenance of platforms that enable applications and services. Evaluate how these hot developments can boost achievement in that critical role.

Case Study

As companies grow, consolidation of resources is inevitable, particularly with the growing movement towards virtualization. If you are maintaining a legacy platform, it may be time to consider a consolidation-in-a-box solution.

Solution Set

The primary mission of the infrastructure professional is deployment and maintenance of platforms that enable applications and services. Evaluate how these hot developments can boost achievement in that critical role.

Tool

Info-Tech conducted its own market evaluation of seven leading WAN optimization solutions. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy the company's requirements, before sitting down with dealers and...

Note

The WAN optimization landscape has evolved dramatically in recent years. Technologies that were once cutting edge have become mainstream and vendors are now focusing their attention on the future. Mobility, virtualization, and cloud computing...

Note

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.

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.

Video

Explosive data growth, cloud computing, virtualization and consolidation, mobile computing; these are all major technology trends that are having a large impact on IT departments today. For infrastructure professionals, these trends are top of...

Video

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 report is designed to help vendors, carriers, and solution providers understand how IT professionals view the issue of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).

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.

Note

Server virtualization and consolidation has become a way of life for most infrastructure managers. The breakdown of physical barrier through virtualization and consolidation has also led to the breakdown of traditional infrastructure rules and...

Looking forward, server virtualization is a critical enabler of a completely abstracted utility infrastructure (internal cloud) for delivering IT as a service.

Vendor Research

This report helps vendors understand how to sell their server virtualization solutions and emphasizes the rationale of end customer purchases and what this means to the vendor.

(15-Jul-11) At first blush, that level of commitment may seem like a confident reaction to a rebounding economy, but according to Melanie Davy, Info-Tech senior research analyst, that’s not the case. “It could even reflect the fact that the...

(8-Jul-11) According to Gartner, the number of virtualization workloads is set to grow fivefold by 2015, and the market no longer belongs solely to VMware. In a Magic Quadrant report published last week, the analyst firm for the first time...

Allowing end users to personalize their virtual desktops improves the user experience, and boosts an organization's chances for a successful VDI implementation. However, personalization also creates a new pain: management of those virtual user...

Note

VMware continues to dominate, but selection isn't just about who is the leader. Competitors are providing legitimate alternatives for consolidation and virtual infrastructure management.

Solution Set

Server virtualization, for many organizations, is moving beyond basic consolidation into a more managed virtual environment, which is where differentiation among vendors really begins.

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.

Video

VMware continues to dominate, but selection isn't just about who is the leader. Competitors are providing legitimate alternatives for consolidation and virtual infrastructure management.

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.