Forrester IT Infrastructure & Operations

Start Now On Your Federated CMDB

Thurs, 8 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Maintaining accurate configuration information about your IT environment is a crucial piece of operational efficiency. A federated model to the CMDB is emerging to enable modularity and flexibility of the CMDB architecture, more accurate and trustworthy operations, and better business service delivery. If you and your colleagues aren't planning for a transition to a federated model, you should be. This podcast details the federated CMDB and describes how dragging your feet exposes your IT organization to costly operational and financial risks.

Green IT

Thurs, 8 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Awareness for Green IT is increasing, driven by corporate-wide greening efforts as well as practical IT concerns like running out of space, power, or budget. While technology in itself is not "green", enterprise IT does have the opportunity to harvest the environmental and financial benefits of becoming more eco-conscious. This podcast discuss that before investing a single dollar into Green IT, you should set expectations by measuring your Green IT Baseline - an annual estimate of the energy consumption, CO2 emissions and financial costs of operating IT.

The State Of Mobile Infrastructure

Thurs, 8 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Mobility is a priority for the majority of enterprises today. Why? Because today's enterprises must cater to a changing workforce - that grew up entrenched in a mobile lifestyle - and ratchet up productivity by providing access to business-critical apps for employees on the go. This podcast gets into why you should articulate a clear understanding of your organization's plans for current and future networks, work with project management and architecture teams to understand bandwidth needs, and have realistic estimates of mobile application demands.

Network Access Control Trends For 2009

Thurs, 8 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT

In 2008, vendors matured their NAC offerings and targeted hot issues like compliance, guest/contractor access, and role-based segmentation of employees. But NAC is not without its faults: Complexity and long implementation cycles have frustrated early adopters. But Forrester sees this changing in 2009. This podcast will delve into the common NAC challenges as well as the emerging features like virtualized form factors, application-level controls, and IT asset management that are altering the NAC landscape.