• Desktop Total Cost of Ownership: 2011 Update
• Federica Troni|Mark A. Margevicius|Michael A. Silver
• 16 November 2010
• PC total cost of ownership can be lowered substantially by moving to higher management levels. Several modifications have been made to the 2011 model to reflect changing measurement considerations.

• Gartner Reference Architecture for Cloud-Enabled Application Platforms
• Yefim V. Natis|Massimo Pezzini|Eric Knipp
• 6 July 2010
• Application servers (platforms) are a well-established technology category. The emergence of platform as a service (PaaS) – and with it, the new demands for cloud-worthy capabilities in platforms – is rewriting the priority lists of technical architectures and producing a new vendor race to leadership in cloud platforms.

VMware Content

• Cloud Adoption Trends: A Growing Reality
• Cloud computing provides a more efficient, flexible and cost-effective model for computing – one that allows IT to operate with much more agility and respond faster to business opportunities. Today, more enterprises recognize the strategic value of cloud computing as a tool for IT innovation to fuel greater business agility. And organizations can leverage the cloud's ever-expandable, self-serviced and always-available infrastructure to speed the delivery and reliability of new and existing applications. What's more, the efficiency of the cloud can free up funds for service-led innovation. Conversely, organizations that do not embrace the cloud risk losing ground in a rapidly changing business environment.

• Modernize Today's Applications. Build for Tomorrow's.
• The applications running in your organization today are significantly different from the applications you ran five years ago. And looking ahead, it is clear that we are near the beginning of this transformation, meaning that the apps of tomorrow will look even less like those of yesteryear.

• Providing End User Freedom with IT Controls
• Today's end users have expectations beyond the traditional one size fits all approach of corporate IT. Driven by an exponential growth in diversity of operation systems, applications and devices, the technology options are seemingly endless. Cloud-based architectures for SaaS, data and collaboration create new opportunities while raising new questions of productivity vs. corporate policy. Business today happens everywhere – the line between personal and professional blurs more every day – users want access. Meanwhile, corporate IT is drowning in a sea of support tickets associated trying to maintain legacy infrastructure leaving little time and resource to strategize on how to leverage these innovations to drive business. IT feels pressure to embrace new models but is unsure how to manage and control them effectively. These opposing forces have put IT into a no-win situation.