Storage & Data Centre Solutions Analyst Reports

From client to the cloud, Gartner finds one vendor as a clear market leader in blades, maximising every hour, watt and penny in your systems, provisioning in minutes, reducing equipment by up to 06% and TCO by 56% VIEW SUMMARY

This report by the Info-Tech research group evaluates 8 competitors in the storage market and is a useful independent resource for organisations planning or considering purchasing consolidated network storage, such as a SAN or unified storage solution. VIEW SUMMARY

The real business impact from reducing IT complexity comes from making money, by having critical resources available to be effectively and efficiently deployed. Choosing the right storage solution can be key in getting the maximum benefits from virtualisation and consolidation. VIEW SUMMARY

The term "enterprise information archiving" incorporates products and solutions for archiving user content (for example, email, files, IM, SharePoint documents.) This paper from Gartner includes a “magic quadrant” of the major vendors, assesses their strengths and weaknesses. VIEW SUMMARY

Based on the survey of Computing’s readership, this whitepaper will examine how organisations view their data, reveal the pain-points where poor quality data is damaging the business and look at how to build a viable business case for better data management. VIEW SUMMARY

How will you meet evolving security requirements? Discover IT approaches to BYOD and other workspace challenges in a Forrester study that examines policy management, desktop virtualisation, and mobility solutions. Read the analyst report to find out more. VIEW SUMMARY

Computing conducted a survey of data centre professionals to identify both the perceived risks and the actual problems that have caused downtime and data loss in data centres. The survey also sought to identify the consequences of such issues, the lessons learned and the prevention measures taken. VIEW SUMMARY

A recent survey found a big jump in the number of firms virtualising mission-critical applications, but some apps, such as ERP, remain largely on physical machines. This report asks the question, why? and explores the answers. VIEW SUMMARY

This IDG report highlights key findings based on the Quickpoll survey conducted with more than 300 enterprise and commercial IT decision makers about the state of their virtualisation journey an looks at the feedback from companies who have virtualised their business-critical applications. VIEW SUMMARY

While most industry buzz about virtualisation has centered on servers, IT organisations have also kept their sights on the potential benefits of desktop virtualisation. With server virtualisation now a mainstream IT practice, this reports discusses what progress IT professionals have made. VIEW SUMMARY