Analyst Research Reports
Forrester:
Open Source Software Goes Mainstream
Vendor: Forrester
Date Published: April 7, 2009
Author: Jeffrey Hammond
Summary: In this report on open source software, Forrester state: "When it became clear in the final quarter of the year that economic conditions were deteriorating, Forrester saw a spike in the number of client inquiries about OSS. These inquires were especially interesting because the majority were basic and came from large, well-established companies. Our takeaway is that the industry appears to be on the verge of a second wave of adoption, one in which OSS crosses the chasm (or firewall, if you will) into mainstream companies."
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Market Overview: Enterprise Role Management
Vendor: Forrester
Date Published: February 6, 2009
Author: Andras Cser
Summary: In this report, Forrester discuss the importance enterprise role management plays in helping enterprises maintain segregation of duties as well as compliance with regulatory mandates, and automating role-based provisioning. The report looks at why role management matters, the trends and growth projections for the market, key vendors in the space, and recommendations for customers looking to build a sustainable role structure in their environment.
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Case Study: Reliant Security Innovates With Open Source Software
Vendor: Forrester
Date Published: February 2, 2009
Authors: Jeffrey S. Hammond with John R. Rymer and Justinas Sileikis
In this case study, Forrester analysts discuss how Reliant Security developed and deployed a PCI compliance solution that makes substantial use of open source software (OSS) to help drive out cost while raising flexibility. Learn how implementing an OSS strategy can help avoid software capital expenses whether you are an ISV or an IT shop with large numbers of geographically distributed system nodes.
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New Market Pressures Will Drive Next-Generation IT Services Outsourcing
Vendor: Forrester
Date Published: 10/9/2008
Author: Paul Roehrig
Overview: Sun invites you to read the following independent Forrester report titled "New Market Pressures Will Drive Next-Generation IT Services Outsourcing" (October 2008) in which Forrester reports on the importance of IT service delivery as a way for companies to enable their core business.
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Gartner:
Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning
Vendor: Gartner
Date Published: September 30, 2009
Authors: Perry Carpenter, Earl Perkins
Gartner recently published its "Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning" and positioned Sun in the leaders quadrant. According to Gartner, the provisioning market continues to consolidate, and boundaries between identity and access management (IAM) companion products are blurring. Gartner Magic Quadrants evaluate vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
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Operating System Competition Accelerates: Windows vs. Linux vs. Solaris on x86 Servers
Vendor: Gartner
Date Published: April 14, 2009
Authors: George Weiss and Carl Claunch
Read Gartner's recent research to understand Gartner's view on leading operating systems and how they continue to play an important role in the data center.
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GlassFish Suite of Products Continues Sun Microsystems' Quest to Leverage Open-Source Technologies
Vendor: Gartner
Date Published: March 17, 2009
Authors: Jess Thompson
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Gartner Report: Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management
Vendor: Gartner
Date Published: 11/10/2008
Authors: Ray Wagner, Earl Perkins, Perry Carpenter
Approved promotional language: Gartner recently announced its "Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management" and positioned Sun in the leaders quadrant. According to Gartner, evaluation is based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
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IDC:
IDC Link - Sun Ops Center 2.5: Managing Mixed Environments in Virtualized Sun Infrastructure
Vendor: IDC
Date Published: October 13, 2009
Authors: Jean Bozman, Gary Chen, Mary Turner
Overview: This IDC report looks at the recently announced Sun Ops Center 2.5 release, and discusses the benefits and advantages it offers to IT organizations to better integrate physical and virtual systems management and improve the performance of mission-critical application workloads.
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IDC Whitepaper - Guide to Reducing IT Costs Through Virtualization with Blades
Vendor: IDC
Date Published: April 2009
Authors: Jed Scaramella, Jean Bozman
Overview: In this Sun-sponsored white paper, IDC looks at the ongoing customer requirements for server platforms and a number of pain points that have developed in recent years, as computer systems have become packed more densely within the datacenter, and describes new server blades from Sun and a new shared NIC technology embedded within the Sun Blade Virtualized NEM, which are combined in a bladed server solution for the datacenter to address many of these operational issues.
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IDC Whitepaper - The Market Opportunity for Enterprise Tape
Vendor: IDC
Date Published: 12/2008
Author: Robert Amatruda
Overview: In this Sun-sponsored white paper, IDC analyzes the market opportunity for enterprise-class tape drives and Sun's new enterprise-class tape drive, the Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive. In addition, IDC explores the offering in the context of Sun's storage portfolio and the secondary storage market.
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IDC White Paper - Guide to Cost-Effectively Refreshing Aging Servers
Vendor: IDC
Date Published: October 2008
Authors: Kenneth Cayton
Overview: In this Sun and Intel-sponsored white paper, IDC examines the x86 server systems business, the reason that companies deploy new or refreshed servers, the rapidly changing technology available to customers, and why customers should consider refreshing servers in their datacenter environment.
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Illuminata:
Virtualization Strategies: Sun Microsystems
Vendor: Illuminata
Date Published: October 14, 2008
Author: Gordon Haff
Expiration Date: None
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Niagara 2: More Heft in the Weft
Vendor: Illuminata
Date Published: August 24, 2007
Author: Gordon Haff
Expiration Date: None
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Current Analysis:
Service-Oriented Architecture Solution Assessments
Vendor: Current Analysis
Date Published: 1/4/2008
Author: Brad Shimmin
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