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2013 Planning Guide for Application Delivery Strategies: Mobile, Cloud, Social, and Information: January 28, 2013

Gartner's 2013 planning guide for application delivery teams outlines trends in mobile, cloud, social, and information initiatives and provides guidance on how to design, develop, and …
2013 Planning Guide: Data Center, Infrastructure, Operations, Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation: November 1, 2012

In 2013, organizations will continue transitioning data centers to improve efficiency and agility. This Gartner report provides guidance to help operations and data center leaders and C…
After the Bust: Service Provider Evolution in a New Era: July 13, 2004

"After the Bust: Service Provider Evolution in a New Era" is a Research Report prepared by Burton Group, an ECAR partner. It is available to ECAR subscribers through special arrangemen…
Alternative IT Sourcing Strategies: From the Campus to the Cloud: August 20, 2009

Abstract This 2009 ECAR research study explores a multitude of strategies used by colleges and university information technology organizations to deliver the breadth of technologies and servic…
Beyond the Phone System: Converged Real-Time Communications for Enterprises: February 1, 2007

It has been widely assumed that next generation "phone systems" will be based on Internet Protocol private branch exchanges (IP-PBXs). The ever-increasing ubiquity of IP networks can i…
Business Process Modeling: Adding Value or Overhead?: May 8, 2006

New approaches to business process modeling can provide a map for IT services that are truly aligned to institutional goals. Institutions that adopt business process modeling techniques and inte…
Cloud Storage: An Emerging Market: August 4, 2009

Driven by the need to reduce costs and to provide dependable data delivery and protection, the cloud storage pay-as-you-go service model offers information technology a new way to avoid building…
Combining Data Center Consolidation and Server Virtualization: The Path to Nirvana or the Road to Hell?: March 30, 2010

IT organizations combining data center consolidation and server virtualization must understand how the sequence of consolidation operations (i.e., server virtualization before, during, or after d…
Deciphering Social Networks: September 2, 2008

Adoption and usage data regarding social networking trends by consumers has convinced many business and IT leadership teams that social network sites, and their technological underpinnings, can …
Enterprise WAN Capacity Planning: March 28, 2008

Capacity planning or capacity management isn't just for networks anymore. In fact, while enterprise wide area networks (WANs) were once only optimized for transaction processing, it is now …

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