Reports

irg’s com­pre­hen­sive reports

IRG’s compre­hensive reports about key Internet infra­structure markets are available by subscription only. Select a report link below to see a prospectus.

IRG’s multi-vendor reports offer the industry’s most compre­hensive and technically detailed views of important e-business and e-commerce technology markets. We identify all of the vendors in a market; the market segments and the differences between them with respect to their adoption of the technology; sales revenue and volume trends; value propo­sitions for various products; vendor strategies; and other important facts. The reports typically include private consulting and a presen­tation of our findings.

Click on a link below to view a Report Prospectus (no regis­tration required) or one of our Report Abstracts (regis­tration required).

To subscribe to any of our reports, please contact jkatsaros@irg-intl.com

2013 Reports

• The 2013 Branch Office IT Market Landscape Report
  This report focuses on the branch office market. January 7, 2010
• Branch Office 2013 Table of Contents

2012 Reports

• The Road To The Private Cloud

2010 Reports

• OpenFlow: A Revolution in Network Archi­tecture
  IRG’s latest report on technology infra­structure. December 16, 2010
• The 2010 Branch Office IT Market Landscape Report
  This report focuses on the branch office market. March 15, 2010

2009 Reports

• Cloud Computing: Learning from the Pioneers This report focuses on the early adopter use cases for Cloud Computing Services. October 15, 2009
• Cisco UCS: Differ­en­tiation and Value Propo­sition
  This report looks at the elements that collec­tively form Cisco’s Unified Computing System. March 17, 2009
• Surviving This Recession – Strategies to Gain Market Share During the Recession
  This report presents twelve strategies for winning market share during difficult economic periods. January 23, 2009

2008 Reports

• Desktop Delivery & Virtual Desktops: An IRG Overview
  IRG announces the release of its latest study on Desktop Delivery. This report creates a simplified but meaningful framework for considering Virtual Desktop market opportunities.
• Riverbed Atlas: An IRG Overview
  IRG announces the release of its latest report on the technology infrastructure.
• Why Microsoft Virtu­al­ization is Different (and possibly better)
  IRG announces the release of its latest report on the technology infrastructure.
• Risk and Compliance Insights: Audit Effec­tiveness
  IRG announces a new white paper. The research report summarizes IRG’s recent survey of approx­i­mately 400 IT audit-related professions regarding the financial and produc­tivity burdens of IT audits.
• Microsoft SharePoint (takes over the world)
  IRG announces the release of its latest report on the network infrastructure.
• Cisco QFP – Software Genius or Hardware Folly?
  IRG announces the release of its latest study on Cisco’s new QFP – Quantum Flow Processor.
• VMsafe, Virtu­al­ization and Security
  IRG announces the release of its latest report the evolution of security and virtualization.
• The Branch Office Infor­mation Technology Market
  IRG announces the release of its updated report on the branch office market.

2007 Reports

• Branch Office Appli­cation Optimization Solutions
  IRG announces a new white paper on the branch office
• Virtu­al­ization and Security
  IRG announces new report on virtu­al­ization and security.
• Virtu­al­ization: Advice to Infra­structure Vendors
  IRG announces new report on Virtual Appliances.
• Cisco’s SONA Unwound – Virtu­al­ization Intersects Appliances (again)
  IRG announces new report on Cisco’s software strategy.
• The Exchange 2007 Market Adoption Analysis Report
  IRG announces new report on Microsoft Exchange 2007.

2006 Reports

• The Exchange 2007 Market Adoption Migration Report
  With the release of Exchange 2007 within the next six months, enter­prises are developing plans for migrating their email infra­structures. This report takes an advance look at the spending decisions which are likely to be part of an Exchange 2007 upgrade and the resulting industry-wide implications.
• WAAS Up? Cisco Fleshes Out its WAN Offering
  Our latest report focusing on the WAN infra­structure market, now that Cisco has introduced its WAAS (Wide-Area Appli­cation Services) product line to the market. This report, WAAS Up? Cisco Fleshes out its WAN Offering, contrasts the different WAN strategies of both Cisco and Microsoft and the directions that customers may choose.
• The 2006 Content Protection Market Report, The Value of Network Traffic Analysis – The Visible Enterprise and The 2006 Content Protection Vendor Landscape Report
  We’ve covered the Content Protection market with three reports. The notion of content protection – automat­ically preventing the loss of valuable content – holds great promise for enter­prises. But the market is off to a slow start. Customers react positively to the concept but have been slow to deploy in production partly because of the complexity of the problem and partly because of the incom­pleteness of the initial vendor offerings.
• The Network Admission Control Market Landscape Report
  The report includes our five year NAC Market Forecast, installed base Market Share and a compre­hensive vendor profile of 28 NAC related product vendors.

2005 Reports

• The Network Admission Control Report
  An in depth study of the fastest growing category in the network security arena.
• The 2005 Branch Office Market Landscape Report
  An in depth study of the US branch office IT market segments.
• The Microsoft Security Strategy
  An in-depth study of Microsoft’s overarching security strategy.
• “The Need For Compre­hensive Security Systems”
  An in-depth study.

2004 Reports

• The Evolving Network Security Solutions Landscape
  An in-depth study of the rapidly strengthening system-level aspects of security.
• Branch Office 2004 – The Perfect Storm of IT Issues and Initiatives
  An in depth study of the future of branch office WAN technology.
• The 2004 Branch Office WAN Commu­ni­cations Technology Report
  An in depth study of the future of branch office WAN technology.
• 2004 The Year That Spam Gets Solved
  A compre­hensive inves­ti­gation into the major disruption about to take place in the Spam prevention market.

2003 Reports

• Appli­cation Protection Subsystem Market Report: Reengi­neering Appli­cation Security
  An in depth study of the new class of security protection devices – Appli­cation Protection Subsystems.
• The 2003 Branch Office Subsystem Market Report: Reengi­neering the Branch Office Infra­structure
  An in depth study of the future of branch office connectivity.
• Appli­cation Protection Subsystem Market Report: Reengi­neering Appli­cation Security
• The 2003 Branch Office Subsystem Market Report: Reengi­neering Branch Office Infrastructure.

2002 Reports

• The 2002 Content Distri­bution – At The Edge Report

Report Abstracts

• The Need For Compre­hensive Security Systems
• Bandwidth Optimization: Today’s Network Compression Market
• The Imperative for Business Optimized Networks
• The 2002 Internet Data Center Infra­structure Market Report: Accel­erating Internet Applications
• The CDN Market Size and Market Share Study