Will Your Next Generation Server System Meet Your Infrastructure Optimization Needs?

Forrester Consulting has conducted a series of interviews with IT professionals. The goal was to better understand the business drivers, selection criteria, and recommendations for selecting its next-generation enterprise computing platforms. There are a variety of drivers behind the choice of enterprise-class server system architectures. The study notes that many firms still use traditional approaches in their server systems selection: processor type and micro-architecture design versus application/workload requirements.

But the long list of considerations involved doesn’t stop here. There are critical questions an enterprise architect must address to start the proper due diligence in the choice for the most flexible, robust, and cost-efficient enterprise computing platform to enable best-in-class infrastructure optimization.

In this paper, you’ll learn how your peers answered critical enterprise-architecture questions when evaluating different options, including:

• Does the server meet all of my most advanced virtualization requirements?
• Can the server support the RAS features I need?
• Can the platform support a varied set of applications workloads?
• Do the performance benchmark metrics support my workload optimization targets?
• Can the new platform lower my life-cycle costs?

The study also offers recommendations for choosing enterprise-class server platforms and talks about what you need to do to plan for infrastructure optimization.