Servers and Storage.

Featured Research

• Software Licensing Cost Can Spiral When Doing a Server Consolidation
  2 November 2009
• Storage Strategy: Why You Need One, and What it Should Include
  29 October 2009
• Strategic Questions IT Should Ask the Storage Team
  29 October 2009
• Best Practices for Turning a Storage Strategy Into Tactical Actions
  29 October 2009
• Server Virtualization: One Path That Leads to Cloud Computing
  29 October 2009
• Storage Management Tools in a Virtualized Server Environment
  28 October 2009
• Key Elements of a Successful Storage Strategy
  28 October 2009
• How Real-Time Infrastructure Relates to Grid Computing
  28 October 2009
• Beware of TCO Storage Tools Bearing Gifts
  22 October 2009
• Enterprise Backup/Recovery Market Update: Change Driven by Virtualization and Data Reduction
  20 October 2009

Spotlights

Research collections focusing on current issues

• Virtualization Changes Virtually Everything
  28 March 2008
• A Fresh Look at Grid Computing
  26 November 2007
• File Storage Consolidation Essentials
  21 June 2007
• Data Center Relocation Costs
  8 June 2007

The Basics

Essential concepts and fundamental principles

• Data Center Facility Location Selection Criteria
  4 September 2009
• Q&A on Issues to Consider Before Building a New Data Center
  3 June 2009
• Key Issues for Enterprise Storage, 2009
  3 April 2009
• Key Areas of Coverage for Data Centers, Servers and Operating Systems, 2009
  20 January 2009
• The Six Key Attributes of a Green Data Center
  18 July 2008
• Open Source in Hypervisors, 2008
  28 March 2008
• How to Decide on a Linux Server Platform
  28 September 2007
• Storage Resource Management Essentials
  16 May 2007
• Best Practices Yield High-Availability Storage Area Networks
  2 April 2007
• The Storage Staffing Metrics Conundrum
  26 March 2007
• Data Center Power and Cooling Scenario Through 2015
  14 March 2007
• Eight Critical Forces Shape Enterprise Data Center Strategies
  8 February 2007
• Guidelines for Disk Array Storage Procurement
  24 October 2006
• Guidelines for Dealing With Data Center Power and Cooling Issues
  9 October 2006
• Gartner's Server Scorecard Evaluation Model (Release 2) Methodology
  20 July 2006
• Guide to Navigating Gartner's Server SEM (Release 2)
  25 July 2006
• Blade Servers: A Perspective
  30 May 2006
• Overview of Fixed Content Disk Archive Storage
  10 April 2006
• Archiving: Technology Overview
  2 February 2006
• Guide to Navigating Gartner's Server SEM
  23 December 2005
• How to Get More for Less in Storage Procurements
  28 November 2005
• Use This Framework to Decide on a Server Platform
  18 November 2005
• What to Do If Your Mainframe Experts Are About to Retire
  31 October 2005
• Mainframe Operating Systems: Perspective
  3 November 2005

Hype Cycles

The wave of the future — or just hype? Gartner Hype Cycles show the difference

• Hype Cycle for Data Center Power and Cooling Technologies, 2009
  24 July 2009
• Hype Cycle for Storage Software Technologies, 2009
  20 July 2009
• Hype Cycle for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2009
  17 July 2009
• Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2009
  19 June 2009

Magic Quadrants

Which vendors are leaders, visionaries, challengers or niche players

• Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers
  6 October 2009
• Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers
  24 September 2009
• MarketScope for High-End Enterprise Disk Arrays
  13 August 2009
• iSCSI MarketScope Is Retired, But iSCSI-Based Disk Storage Expands Market Presence
  12 August 2009
• Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software
  22 June 2009
• Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions
  2 March 2009
• Magic Quadrant for J2EE Application Server Management Retired
  8 January 2009
• Magic Quadrant for Midrange Enterprise Disk Arrays
  12 November 2008
• MarketScope for iSCSI SAN Integrated Solutions
  9 June 2008
• Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Active Archiving
  20 May 2008
• MarketScope for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software, 2008
  18 April 2008

Vendor Ratings

The products, strategies and viability of specific vendors

• Vendor Rating: Microsoft
  3 August 2009
• Vendor Rating: Hitachi
  31 July 2009
• Vendor Focus for IBM 2009: Servers
  16 July 2009
• Vendor Focus for IBM 2009: Smarter Planet Initiative
  28 May 2009
• Vendor Focus for IBM 2009: Cloud-Computing Initiative
  1 July 2009
• Vendor Rating: IBM
  26 May 2009
• Vendor Rating Update: EMC's Information Infrastructure Business
  29 April 2009
• Vendor Rating: HP
  9 April 2009
• Cool Vendors in Storage Technology and Systems, 2009
  23 March 2009
• Vendor Rating: Dell
  17 March 2009
• Cool Vendors in Storage Management, 2009
  4 March 2009
• Cool Vendors in Archiving, 2009
  3 March 2009