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   			<title><![CDATA[ How Sun Microsystems Users Should React to Oracle's Support Campaign]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ To help bolster industry confidence in the Sun acquisition, and convince users that Oracle will maintain investment in Sun products, Oracle has issued a series of public statements backing Solaris and SPARC. We discuss how much credence Sun users and partners should give these public endorsements. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Five Best Practices to Optimize Server Infrastructure Costs With Virtualization]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ There is considerable potential in server virtualization to deliver significant costs savings, but there is even greater potential for these savings to be squandered. These simple best practices help customers plan and achieve real, sustainable cost savings. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ SWOT: IBM System Storage and Tivoli Storage Management Business Segment, Worldwide]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The IBM System Storage and the Tivoli Storage Management business units represent generally competitive offerings whose market attractiveness is further strengthened by other elements of IBM. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Virtualization Enables Rich Choices for Branch Office Boxes]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Server virtualization and cost-effective high performance processors are allowing appliance vendors to host a rich set of features on a single branch office box. This allows customers to maintain "best of breed" solutions without deploying a stack of appliances in every branch. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Software Licensing Cost Can Spiral When Doing a Server Consolidation]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Server consolidation requires IT asset managers to deal with several challenging software licensing issues. Responding to these issues during the change management process before consolidating servers will avoid licensing issues, unintended costs and inadvertent loss of usage rights. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Storage Strategy: Why You Need One, and What it Should Include]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Soaring data requirements, new business demands, technology changes and tightened budgets necessitate that every organization has a comprehensive storage strategy. This set of research describes what is required to devise and update an effective storage strategy. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Strategic Questions IT Should Ask the Storage Team]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ IT management needs to work with storage managers to develop a comprehensive storage strategy that dovetails with the organization's goals. These key questions can help IT managers engage storage team members and gain a comprehensive understanding of the status of storage in their organizations. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Best Practices for Turning a Storage Strategy Into Tactical Actions]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Organization goals shape storage strategy, which drives the choice and implementation of tactical storage technologies, solutions, infrastructure design, operations and supplier relationships. These best practices will help storage teams turn strategic goals into tactical actions and solutions. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Server Virtualization: One Path That Leads to Cloud Computing]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Server virtualization is a modernization catalyst and helps move an organization in the direction of both delivering and using cloud computing. We discuss the challenges, and provide recommendations to overcome them. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Storage Management Tools in a Virtualized Server Environment]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Planning for storage requirements is a critical part of any server virtualization project. Many tools for the purpose exist, but their use is often an afterthought or an emergency purchase when customers discover that server virtualization increases storage costs and management complexity. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Virtualization Changes Virtually Everything]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Virtualization is hot. It changes and touches nearly everything in the IT portfolio. It affects what you buy, how you buy and how you implement it. This comprehensive Special Report focuses on the impact of virtualization on traditional IT focus areas, as well as future impact and planning aspects. ]]></description>
		
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  	  <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ A Fresh Look at Grid Computing]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The term "grid computing" continues to be used with little discipline in the industry. We revisit the issue with research that accurately positions the concept and looks at recent developments that are contributing to the slow but steady progress of grid computing to solve user problems. ]]></description>
		
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  	  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ File Storage Consolidation Essentials]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ File storage consolidation is a broad topic that encompasses many vendors and technologies. This series of reports examines the ways in which different file storage consolidation technologies achieve distinct objectives. ]]></description>
		
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  	  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Data Center Relocation Costs]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ IT equipment relocation represents a significant component of a data center move. Most of the cost relates to labor; and thus, care should be taken in the logistics planning to ensure the efficiency of the move. ]]></description>
		
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  	  <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Elements of a Successful Storage Strategy]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ An effective storage strategy has a clear delineation between strategic and tactical objectives, requires participation from all organizational units, and measurable milestones. To ensure your strategy's success, include the key elements described in this research. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Data Center Facility Location Selection Criteria]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Selecting the location for a data center is a crucial decision that impacts many areas and involves many evaluation criteria that have varying degrees of importance. We summarize the criteria that should be examined when making a site selection decision. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Q&A on Issues to Consider Before Building a New Data Center]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Data center construction is an expensive, long-term investment that can be difficult to justify. However, for some situations, building a data center makes more sense than refurbishing or contracting a hosting facility. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Enterprise Storage, 2009]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Users modernizing their storage infrastructures within tight budgets and challenging environmental regulations are relying on virtualization, new storage systems, green storage technologies, and better management practices and tools to meet their service-level agreements and security needs. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Areas of Coverage for Data Centers, Servers and Operating Systems, 2009]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Key areas of coverage for 2009 span a wide range: from the micro level (microprocessor multicore architectures) to the macro level (data center facilities management), from commodity servers to mainframes, and from cost optimization in virtualization and clouds to contract negotiations. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ The Six Key Attributes of a Green Data Center]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ During the next few years, many enterprises will need to focus on "greening" their data centers. Six essential attributes are critical to making a data center green. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Open Source in Hypervisors, 2008]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Slow, steady growth in the adoption of open-source hypervisors will continue. When considering deployments based on open-source hypervisors, benchmark support and system management capabilities against commercial offerings from VMware and Microsoft. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ How to Decide on a Linux Server Platform]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As Linux's capabilities and popularity have grown, more platforms have embraced it as a server operating environment. We present decision factors that will help in comparing the use of a mainframe platform with other platforms for your Linux implementation and also between nonmainframe platforms. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Storage Resource Management Essentials]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Since the late 1990s, SRM has been a hot topic in the press and the industry. SRM means many things to many people; therefore, this research examines the real state of SRM from functionality, maturity and customer-benefit perspectives. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Best Practices Yield High-Availability Storage Area Networks]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Following a set of best practices can yield storage area network availability near 100%. This research provides a list of best practices in planning and before deploying new storage area networks. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ The Storage Staffing Metrics Conundrum]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Despite the fervent hopes of storage managers, there isn't a linear relationship between TBs of storage and the number of people required to manage it; therefore, there is no quick and easy answer to the question: How many storage administrators do I need? ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Data Center Power and Cooling Scenario Through 2015]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Data center power and cooling issues will grow during the next 10 years. Users need to plan their infrastructure topology based on this changing scenario. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Eight Critical Forces Shape Enterprise Data Center Strategies]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Most large enterprises will face major decision points in their mid- to long-term data center strategies during the next two years. The technical, fiscal and service delivery concerns will be critical, and eight critical forces must be considered to best shape enterprise data center strategies. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Guidelines for Disk Array Storage Procurement]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The disk array storage procurement process is complex and requires a well-thought-out total-cost-of-ownership model. These guidelines will assist organizations in procuring the optimal storage solution for their business needs. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Guidelines for Dealing With Data Center Power and Cooling Issues]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Data center managers facing power and cooling issues during the next five years as a result of using high-density servers should follow our guidelines to manage the problems. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Gartner's Server Scorecard Evaluation Model (Release 2) Methodology]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gartner's Server Scorecard Evaluation Model assesses most major server platforms using 71 nested criteria that track technology and delivery capabilities. Use this methodology guide to help understand the rationale for our decisions. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Guide to Navigating Gartner's Server SEM (Release 2)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gartner's Server Scorecard Evaluation Model can help you evaluate almost any server platform, with a user-controlled "dashboard" that lets you navigate the model easily and perform intuitive searches and "what if" analyses on demand. Use this document to get maximum value from the model. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Blade Servers: A Perspective]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ IBM, HP, Dell and Fujitsu lead the blade server market, with machines based on Xeon, Opteron and RISC processors. We compare these models and outline the advantages and disadvantages of this server format.  ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Overview of Fixed Content Disk Archive Storage]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Fixed content archiving is becoming increasingly important, driven by industry regulations and a need for cost reduction of long-term retention. Users are facing numerous choices in terms of disk-based archiving targets and need to know the pros and cons of each approach.  ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Archiving: Technology Overview]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Historically an extension of the backup product, archiving is becoming a market of its own. Archiving technologies are integrating with capacity management tools to automate data management and migration. While still a fragmented market, it is moving toward an integrated set of archiving solutions. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Guide to Navigating Gartner's Server SEM]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Server Scorecard Evaluation Model can help you evaluate almost any server platform. Its new user-controlled "dashboard" lets you navigate the model easily and perform intuitive searches. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2005</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ How to Get More for Less in Storage Procurements]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Organizations face more challenges in buying storage as their requirements for storage exceed the available budgets. Use best-practice negotiating strategies for acquiring disk storage products. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Use This Framework to Decide on a Server Platform]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Choosing a server architecture and operating system is a tricky task, now complicated by the rise of Linux. Our decision-making framework will help you weigh the suitability of Linux, Unix, Windows and mainframe options. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2005</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ What to Do If Your Mainframe Experts Are About to Retire]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ IBM is investing heavily to remedy the skills shortage in mainframe computing. Organizations that face losing experienced staff to retirement should take advantage of the company's academic courses and other initiatives. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Mainframe Operating Systems: Perspective]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ With support for open standards, languages and object programming models, mainframe operating systems can work with Internet and Java-enabled applications. Interoperability technologies allow the applications to work with mainframe transaction applications and let them run on the mainframe itself. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Data Center Power and Cooling Technologies, 2009]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The increase in high-density IT equipment, the cost and scarcity of power, and the focus on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are requiring new technology to meet these challenges. This Hype Cycle highlights the emerging technologies of data center power and cooling. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Storage Software Technologies, 2009]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Storage management software provides the tools to better manage the growing amount of data and the devices that store it. Solution growth areas focus on tools for faster recovery, better disk use with data deduplication and archiving, and support for virtualized server environments. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2009]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ With enterprises worldwide focusing on cost containment and improving efficiencies in a down economy, storage vendors continue to develop technologies targeted at those needs. This Hype Cycle evaluates 28 emerging storage hardware technologies and helps users decide where and when to invest. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2009]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This Hype Cycle highlights the emerging technologies of server virtualization, next-generation server building blocks, increasingly dense processors, operating systems and data center cooling technologies. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This new blade server Magic Quadrant focuses on a market that is outgrowing that of all other server form factors. Most vendors are now investing in the market, and many Gartner clients are standardizing on this technology for their data center deployments. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Foundational EAS technology is evolving to meet the challenges of constant innovation in business software. Service-oriented architecture, extreme transaction processing, cloud computing, metadata encoding of business logic, open source and event-driven architecture are the key drivers of change. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ MarketScope for High-End Enterprise Disk Arrays]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In spite of a struggling economy, the high-end enterprise disk array market achieved year-over-year revenue growth in 2008. Six vendors (EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi/Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM and Sun, which is pending acquisition by Oracle) continue to compete for share. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ iSCSI MarketScope Is Retired, But iSCSI-Based Disk Storage Expands Market Presence]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gartner discusses why the Internet Small Computer System Interface storage area network solutions MarketScope is retired. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ SRM and storage area network tools enable customers to manage their shared-storage environments. They've become fully featured, integrated and user-friendly products. Vendors offer holistic to specialist solutions to customers with a broad range of maturity levels and requirements. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The market for midrange and high-end network-attached storage has become increasingly competitive as more major vendors launched new products to tackle unstructured data. Users should evaluate NAS products based on their business needs, workload characteristics and design infrastructure strategy. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for J2EE Application Server Management Retired]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Magic Quadrant for J2EE Application Server Management has outlived its usefulness and is being retired. New Magic Quadrants that encompass a broader application management area, such as application performance management, will replace it. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Microsoft]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft is the world's largest software provider with offerings and support spanning endpoint, server, and back-end processing, as well as development tools. Gartner's 2009 vendor rating for Microsoft evaluates its overall strategy and all its enterprise offerings. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Hitachi]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Hitachi is selling a wide range of IT products and services as it tries to recover from negative growth caused by the difficult economic conditions. Its business base in Japan is strong, but its overseas business is still developing. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Focus for IBM 2009: Servers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This research augments Gartner's Vendor Rating for IBM, published 26 May 2009. Here, we analyze the competitiveness of products from one of the top server vendors, and give recommendations on when and how best to use them. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Focus for IBM 2009: Smarter Planet Initiative]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This research is a companion to the IBM Vendor Rating, with expanded analysis and ratings of a major IBM initiative. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Focus for IBM 2009: Cloud-Computing Initiative]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Traditional providers, including IBM, are looking at ways to compete against cloud-based alternatives; however, they also want to deliver their own products and services as cloud providers to potential customers looking to source products or services using the cloud-computing model. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: IBM]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This research is Gartner's 2009 vendor rating for IBM. It evaluates the entire company and its offerings. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating Update: EMC's Information Infrastructure Business]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ EMC is a large diversified global provider of information infrastructure technologies, solutions and services with leading positions in the information storage, content management and archiving, and information security markets. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: HP]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ HP provides hardware, software and service offerings across consumer and business markets. The company is growing its service business, changing its profile in the market. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Storage Technology and Systems, 2009]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ New and innovative storage technologies such as solid-state drives, storage area network optimization and disaster recovery solutions can assist IT professionals to better align storage infrastructure performance and costs to the realities of the current global economy. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Dell]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Dell continues a slow evolution to becoming a more-innovative and service-friendly company as the computing market moves away from highly standardized hardware purchasing. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Storage Management, 2009]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Containing costs and managing risk and availability are issues facing all IT organizations; however, the storage practice, in particular, is struggling to balance desired improvements in quality of service while meeting other business requirement objectives. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Archiving, 2009]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Cool new vendors add options for archive storage (Permabit), services to move data into the archive (RenewData), and archiving through a service provider (Sonian and Mimecast). Use of new technologies gives these vendors an edge to overcome resistance by buyers to working with new companies. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ How Sun Microsystems Users Should React to Oracle's Support Campaign]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ To help bolster industry confidence in the Sun acquisition, and convince users that Oracle will maintain investment in Sun products, Oracle has issued a series of public statements backing Solaris and SPARC. We discuss how much credence Sun users and partners should give these public endorsements. ]]></description>
		
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