Service providers, data centers and enterprises are increasingly embracing virtualization to increase hardware processing utilization and efficiency, unify networking and server farms, and reduce complexity and total cost of ownership. The Xen hypervisor is a fast and secure infrastructure virtualization solution that enables multiple instances of the same or different operating systems on a single processor. Each operating system will not only run completely independently, but also securely so that the software running on one operating system is protected from that on another operating system. Multiple applications, therefore, can run on a single processor, but operate completely independently from each other. This allows developers the opportunity to create compact, multi-function systems solutions that take full advantage of multi-core processors while minimizing power consumption. For example, a base station can be designed to provide both 3G and LTE services with a single processor, ultimately reducing the cost and complexity of the hardware, while enhancing the flexibility and capability of the system solution.

NetLogic Microsystems’ XLP and XLP II multi-core, multi-threaded processors are the industry’s most advanced, highest performance communications processors that feature an innovative quad-issue, quad-threaded and superscalar architecture with out-of-order execution capabilities. This uniquely superior architecture makes the industry-leading XLP and XLP II processor families ideally suited for the virtualization of multiple applications and multiple operating systems on each of the high-performance cores. The flagship XLP processor family in 40nm operates at up to 2GHz and delivers cache-coherent scalability of up to 128 NXCPUs™, while the next-generation XLP II processor family is designed for up to 2.5GHz and scalability up to 640 NXCPUs in the state-of-the-art 28nm process.

The Xen hypervisor is a thin software layer that resides between the operating system and the processor, thus providing an abstraction layer that allows each processor to run as multiple virtualized processors. As a unique open-source technology, the Xen hypervisor is developed collaboratively by a broad community comprising leading system original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), software and application providers, and semiconductor vendors. The Xen hypervisor from NetLogic Microsystems is freely accessible through the Xen open-source community. This will enable customers and third-party developers to easily incorporate and extend their systems solutions using the best-in-class XLP and XLP II multi-core processors.

“We are pleased to spearhead and pioneer the all-important virtualization efforts for MIPS64 multi-core communications processors. Because our embedded multi-core processors are designed to deliver the highest performance per core, they lend themselves particularly well to virtualization techniques by our leading customer base,” said Chris O’Reilly, vice president of marketing at NetLogic Microsystems. “Our Xen hypervisor extends our technology leadership and helps our customers and partners create new and innovative solutions with our revolutionary XLP and XLP II processor families.”

NetLogic Microsystems’ Xen hypervisor will be submitted to the open source community in the first quarter of 2012.

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"Innovation and total server reliability drive product development at Supermicro," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "Our new redundant, UPS modules strengthen Supermicro server and storage solutions with the most robust protection against power disruption, eliminating power delivery as a single point of failure. Using less than 1W at 99.9% power efficiency to maintain a full charge, we are lowering power consumption with a cost-effective infrastructure solution and saving our customers $2K/rack/year when compared to single-rack 20KVA online UPS systems running at 95% efficiency."

Supermicro's UPS battery backup modules are designed for high-availability, easy maintenance and are completely self-contained hot-swappable units, charging and delivering power through the internal connector. In the event of an AC power interrupt, reaction time of the module is real-time for the battery to take over and maintain load, providing time for failsafe switchover to an alternative power source or an orderly shutdown. Incorporating the latest rechargeable Lithium-Ion cell technology, these modules features I2C/Smart battery monitoring through remote management and provide long-life durability with 500 full charge/discharge cycles. This technology is ideally suited for environments with AC reliability issues or in need of backup power solutions. Supermicro's servers configured with the redundant UPS feature provide maximum system protection for Enterprise and SMB server deployments running mission-critical HPC, cloud computing, data center and storage applications.

The PWS-206B-1R has been deployed to early adopter customers and will ramp to full production in February. The PWS-1K03B-1R will be widely available in the April 2012 timeframe.

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The Z-Drive R5 features a jointly developed "Kilimanjaro" OCZ and Marvell native PCIe to NAND flash controller platform, allowing for completely scalable performance and redundancy while eliminating the need for a separate storage controller, thus reducing the cost to deploy high performance solid state storage systems in the data center.

The native PCIe Z-Drive R5 offers an intelligent, hardware-meets-software managed solution designed to dramatically accelerate database, enterprise, and virtualization applications. Combining high-performance architecture with OCZ managed software, the Z-Drive R5 provides second-to-none performance, flexibility, durability, and enhanced reliability features, allowing datacenters to rely on a PCIe-based SSD as their primary Tier 0/1 storage solution and a viable end-to-end SAN replacement.

The Z-Drive R5 is ideal for demanding computing environments and features:

• Incredible bandwidth capabilities and maximum transactional performance
• High capacities up to 12TB
• Ideal for all enterprise data types with both compressible and non-compressible files as well as large data sets
• Complete storage subsystem management with OCZ Virtualized Controller Architecture™ 3.0 software functions
• Compatible with VMware ESXi and ESX, Linux, Windows Server 2008, and OS X to support a wide range of systems and servers
• Complete power fail protection option for maximum data integrity
• Full height and half height sizes, ideal for space constrained 1U servers and multi-node rackmount servers
• MLC, eMLC , and SLC NAND Flash options

"We are continually pushing the envelope to deliver innovative PCIe SSDs to address challenges that our clients face when processing and managing ever growing amounts of complex data sets," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "The Z-Drive R5, leverages the powerful Kilimanjaro platform to deliver superior performance, greater capacity, and an enhanced hardware and software feature-set that is unmatched in the industry. This best-of-breed next generation native solution enables clients to eliminate I/O bottlenecks for even the most data intensive server and enterprise storage applications."

"Marvell is excited to work with OCZ on this native PCIe to NAND flash controller platform, based on our 88NV9145 silicon," said Alan Armstrong, vice president of Marketing for the Storage Business Group at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. "We believe the PCIe SSD market will rapidly shift to a native PCIe to NAND architecture, and the Kilimanjaro platform represents OCZ and Marvell's strong collaboration in bringing this highly scalable architecture to market."

The Z-Drive R5 will debut at Storage Visions 2012 in the OCZ booth (No. 13) and will also be showcased at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the Marvell booth (No. 30542) located in the South Hall 3 on the upper level.

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By combining a low-latency, non-blocking PCIe switch with two or more 88NV9145 components, customers can create flexible native PCIe SSD configurations for different market segments. Each Marvell 88NV9145 controller supports a PCIe 2.0 x1 interface, ARM-based processor, external Double Data Rate (DDR) interface and four NAND flash channels with up to four Chip Selects (CSs) per channel. In addition, each 88NV9145 can support up to 128GB NAND capacity and has been tested to achieve up to 93,000 4K random read IOPS and 70,000 4K random write IOPS.

"Marvell is raising the bar in data storage by bringing to market the first incrementally scalable, native PCIe-to-NAND technology at a critical time when rapid data growth in public and private clouds is chronically reducing the performance of enterprise applications," said Alan Armstrong, vice president of Marketing for the Storage Business Group at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. "The 88NV9145 silicon eliminates unnecessary SAS or SATA conversion, effectively delivering the ultimate level of I/O performance."

"OCZ is excited to work with Marvell on the native PCIe to NAND flash Kilimanjaro platform leveraging 88NV9145 building blocks," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "We will utilize this new jointly developed platform on our cutting edge Z-Drive R5 PCIe SSD solution to enable breakthrough I/O performance for the complete spectrum of enterprise-class applications such as OLTP database, webservers, virtualization, big-data and collaboration."

"Leveraging PLX's PCIe switch performance and features, Marvell has created one of the most powerful and flexible storage solutions to ever come to market," said David Raun, vice president of Marketing and Business Development at PLX Technology. "By enabling customers to build native PCIe SSDs without any SAS/SATA protocol overhead, the 88NV9145 with PLX ExpressLane switches represent the future of SSD market growth."

"This fully native PCIe-to-NAND controller should be significant for both enterprise and cloud storage markets for some time," said Mark Peters, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Especially for scalability, the mass production of the Marvell 88NV9145 means systems vendors will have a cost-effective way to deliver popular high-performance PCIe SSDs in an easy and flexible fashion. Based on the initial specifications, the product is parlaying Marvell's successful storage heritage to catalyze another key technology step."

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While enterprises are always looking for ways to reduce the cost of running their datacenters, there is a limit to how much space and power can be freed up with traditional rack-mount systems. Many businesses that don’t need a full rack cabinet often opt for tower servers which can be easier to reconfigure or relocate when needed. However, most tower servers are still quite large, and moving them more than occasionally is still not practical. Also, many tower servers lack redundant power or integrated storage on par with rack-mounted solutions.

The Nucleus Server solves the shortcomings of traditional tower servers when it comes to reliability, portability, and performance. For companies that need access to server hardware from anywhere, the Nucleus Server offers the smallest form-factor available, including a convenient handle for easy portage. This can be especially useful for companies that need to run high-end software away from the office, such as conducting sales demonstrations or proof-of-concept installations. In cases where complex applications using multiple virtual machines must be utilized, the Nucleus Server is the ideal alternative to under-performing laptops or shipping bulky servers to a customer site.

While cloud services and WAN are popular for things like email or simpler business software, many branch offices must still use their own servers for more complex applications needing the performance only local hardware can provide. Also, for emergency situations, a disaster recovery plan may require physically moving servers off-site. The Nucleus Server can easily be moved from facility to facility, ensuring that critical applications and data remain intact.

Smaller offices can benefit from the Nucleus Server’s compact size as well. Taking up minimal space, the corner of an office or storage room can be made into an efficient micro datacenter. And unlike many tower servers, particularly those based on a desktop PC design, the Nucleus Server features fully redundant power using a 1300 Watt 2+1 hot-swappable power supply.

Technical specs:

• A compact and space-saving mini-tower chassis: 17.37” H x 16.75” W x 5.80” D
• Dual Quad-Core or Six-Core Intel® Xeon® processors, or single Intel Core™ i7 processor
• Up to 96GB DDR3 unbuffered ECC memory
• Up to (14) 2.5” removable or fixed hard drives, either SATA, SAS, or SSDs, including RAID 0/1/5/6/10
• Robust virtualization support including VMware vSphere and ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer
• Redundant 1300W 2+1 hot-swappable power supply module
• Optional 48V DC input 1300W redundant power supply

The Nucleus Server is available now from NextComputing and its authorized resellers. Please call +1-603-886-3874 or email Sales(at)NextComputing(dot)com for more information.

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LucidLogix demonstrated today for the first time at Computex 2011 its Virtu™ Universal® GPU virtualization software, on notebooks, All-in-One (AiO) and desktop PCs based on both Intel® and AMD integrated graphics processing units (GPUs). Virtu Universal is a new product that builds on the capabilities of the popular LucidLogix Virtu™ GPU virtualization software for Intel Sandy Bridge H61, H67 and Z68-based motherboards.

Virtu Universal dynamically allocates graphics resources between integrated and discrete GPUs on Intel second-generation Core processors and AMD Brazos and Bulldozer platforms, allowing the systems to take full advantage of the processing power provided by both GPUs. Consumers will no longer have to choose between popular media processing features like Intel QuickSync video transcoding and DirectX 11 3D gaming performance. Virtu provides consistent, simultaneous performance with both.

“We’ve had an amazing adoption of Virtu on select Intel Sandy Bridge-based systems,” said Offir Remez, president and founder of Lucid. “It was a natural step for us to extend this capability to all Sandy Bridge platforms including notebooks and AiO PCs as well as sharing it with the AMD fanbase.”

Virtual Vsync Delivers No Compromise Game Performance and Quality

In addition to the recently introduced Lucid Virtu software benefits of complete media and 3D gaming performance, LucidLogix Virtu Universal also features Virtual Vsync benefiting all gamers from casual to hard-core who no longer have to compromise between visual quality and performance. Virtual Vsync delivers maximum gaming frame rates and responsiveness, while eliminating distracting and image-distorting visual tearing.

Virtual Vsync breaks past the limits of standard Vsync (60 FPS) to deliver:

• Unlimited frame rates – some as much as 120 FPS and beyond with in-game Vsync on.
• User-defined frame rate and visual quality selection
• Flawless visual quality without tearing
• Maximum responsiveness to mouse and keyboard – some as much as 250 percent or more
• The infrastructure to support for next-generation platforms

“Once again, Lucid’s ongoing innovations in GPU virtualization keeps the end customer in mind and eliminates common performance and feature compromises on PCs,” added Remez. “We believe gamers will be amazed at the boost in visual quality and keyboard responsiveness provided in Virtu Universal enabled systems.”

Virtu Universal is available to system manufacturers using AMD Brazos and Bulldozer, Intel Sandy Bridge Z68/H67/H61, and other Intel integrated graphics, like the G41 platform. To date Virtu technology has been verified with hundreds of games and applications and is bundled with motherboards from many of the worlds’ leading brands. The flexible nature of Virtu Universal makes the technology highly likely to be found on a variety of upcoming mobile and desktop PCs this year.

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Diskeeper Corporation will be at Taipei CompuTex 2011 co-exhibiting with SanDisk at booth N0307 in the Nangang 4F Hall. The company is officially demonstrating its new ExpressCache™ product—an intelligent SSD data caching and pinning software solution designed to markedly boost PC boot time and application launch speeds.

ExpressCache can achieve the following:

• Dramatically shorten boot-up time; up to 60% compared with the same system without ExpressCache.
• Provide up to 5X improvement in application launch time.
• More than double the overall performance compared to the same system without ExpressCache.

Initially previewed at the January 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, ExpressCache improves PC speeds by incorporating a small Solid State Drive (SSD) to provide near-instantaneous access to the most frequently accessed hot data in Windows 7 systems. Comprised of User mode and Kernel Mode components, ExpressCache uses an SSD as an intelligent cache, coupled with an HDD, to improve overall system performance and greatly speed up Windows PC startup, application launches and data access speed.

More ExpressCache Benefits:

• ExpressCache provides superior overall performance than HDD systems at a fraction of the cost of a pure SSD system.
• Any combination of SSD and HDD can be used, making it a far more flexible solution than Hybrid Hard Drives. Individual components can be upgraded independent of the other.
• ExpressCache increases file system performance while maintaining the full safety and integrity of all system data.

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Ixia, the leading, global provider of converged IP network test solutions, today announced that Dell, Inc. has selected Ixia as one of its key partners for performance testing on its PowerEdge server line. Dell’s PowerEdge series includes the large-scale blade servers used by service providers and enterprises for virtualized data centers, which require extensive benchmarking and testing.

Dell chose Ixia’s platform because of its ability to match the scale, performance, and flexibility necessary to test large rack servers. Ixia’s solutions thoroughly test high-capacity virtualized data center networks and storage infrastructures by addressing key challenges, such as service availability, infrastructure elasticity and provisioning, capacity, end-to-end application and services delivery, and performance across all layers. As enterprises migrate their data and applications to the cloud, and leverage virtualized server infrastructures, it is essential to measure application performance through all stages – on-premise physical servers, virtual machines, and eventually a fully-hosted cloud.

Ixia’s Xcellon-Ultra™ XT can handle the massive number of users serviced by large virtualized servers – numbers such as 24 million HTTP subscribers using up to 80Gbps of traffic throughput. The company’s IxLoad provides multiple 10Gbps interfaces that can emulate millions of subscribers performing real-world interactions with Internet and enterprise services. These test solutions emulate a wide variety of Internet, enterprise, and storage protocols found in today’s data centers.

The proliferation of cloud computing, as well as the delivery of numerous mission-critical enterprise and consumer-rich internet applications services, has increased both the virtual and physical infrastructure complexity and level of interactions among client, server, and storage components of data centers. Proper handling of Ethernet traffic, categorized as north-south traffic between clients and servers or east-west traffic between components of a distributed application, is critical to data center performance – requiring a variety of testing techniques. Thorough and robust testing is the only way to ensure if a network’s evolution to cloud-based infrastructure is properly provisioned, and provides high quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) to its users.

Ixia's Performance benchmarking solution highlights:

• IxLoad tests application servers, traffic shapers, security devices, and other networking devices through real-world subscriber emulation that closely models user behavior over time, with the widest mix of protocols.
• The Ixia Xcellon-Ultra family is designed to meet the needs of modern data centers with city-scale emulation of clients. The XTS-series features line-rate encryption for use in wireless and security scenarios.
• Ixia’s IxNetwork application is used to test the protocols required in converged data centers that merge Ethernet and fibre channel traffic onto 10Gbps Ethernet networks, including FCoE, DCB, and PFC.

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“Organizations have been steadily migrating business critical applications to x86 servers, and they are the IT backbone of many data center operations today,” states Matthew Eastwood, group vice president of IDC’s Enterprise Platform Group. “Dell offers a wide range of servers to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes. This is about enabling customers to build out agile server infrastructures that empower IT managers to be more strategic in the way they allocate and provide IT resources for a wide variety of workloads in the datacenter.”

Setting a New Performance Standard—Dell’s New PowerEdge C6145 Server
Dell has built a leadership position delivering innovative technology to the high performance computing (HPC) market, and today adds to that position with the introduction of the new PowerEdge C6145 server. As the latest addition to Dell’s PowerEdge C line, the PowerEdge C6145 is a number-crunching “power house” that leverages Dell’s experience as a custom design infrastructure partner to some of the world’s leading providers of hyperscale data center and cloud solutions.

The server is specifically designed to handle HPC applications, video rendering, virtualization, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads which demand massive computational power such as large core count, high memory density, and massive I/O expansion. Customers can take advantage of up to two independent 4-socket server nodes in a 2U chassis with the latest AMD Opteron 6000 processors, which enables greater performance per node while reducing space, weight and consuming less energy. Further, customers can scale up to 96 cores, up to 1TB memory, and expanded I/O to quickly compile data and results, and connect to other resources.

In recent benchmarks the PowerEdge C6145 ranked as the highest performing x86 2U shared infrastructure server on the market based on SPECfp_rate2006 results. In addition, the PowerEdge C6145 can deliver up to a 534 percent better price per performance at a fifth of cost and a quarter of the rack space when compared to HP’s ProLiant DL980 G7. The PowerEdge C6145 is available starting at the end of the month.

Boosting Virtualization and Optimizing Workloads
Dell is offering the new Intel Xeon 5600 series Westmere-EP processors across its entire line of two-socket PowerEdge servers, including blade servers (M610, M710, M610X and M710HD blades), rack servers (R710, R610, R510, R410, C1100, C2100, C6100) and tower servers (T710, T610, T410) with new Intel Xeon 5600 series processors. With the new Intel Xeon 5600-based series 4 and 6 core processors, PowerEdge customers experience up to a potential 33.9 percent boost on integer computing throughput over current Xeon 5600 processors, and can achieve as much as a 67 percent gain in performance compared to Dell PowerEdge servers with the previous generation of Intel Xeon 5500 series processor. In addition, using the new Intel Xeon 5600 series Westmere-EP processors, Dell PowerEdge servers have gained the top benchmark scores in both SPECint_base2006 and SPECfp_base2006, industry-standard measures of integer and floating point performance. This means the servers can help tackle the toughest database and computational workloads.

Dell also offers the latest AMD Opteron 6000 processors with its PowerEdge R715 and R815 servers as well as the PowerEdge C6145. With these new AMD processors, users can expect to see better overall system performance increases of up to eight percent and greater energy efficiency compared to a Dell AMD PowerEdge server with a previous generation AMD Opteron processor.

These performance gains across Dell’s mainstream PowerEdge servers make them ideal for workload consolidation and rapid IT Infrastructure deployments. Both the new Intel and AMD processor based servers are available immediately.

Dell Services Helps Accelerate Time-to-Value
Dell also offers services that help consolidate and optimize resources, reduce costs, risks, and time to production in order to meet customers’ business goals. Dell Services provides high impact engagements, business ready configurations and reference architectures for Data Center capabilities including: Planning and Management, Facilities Efficiency, RISC Migration, Virtualization, Data Management, Cloud Computing, and Remote Virtualization Readiness Assessment to help growing businesses maximize their IT investments.

In addition, Dell is offering competitive financing options to help customers preserve capital, maximize IT investments and drive innovation including deferred payments, rotation leasing and low rate financing for large enterprises and public entities on all EqualLogic and KACE solutions.

“These powerful new server technologies help customers to do more with less and achieve better business results,” said Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager, Server Platforms, Dell. “PowerEdge servers help improve business productivity while prioritizing technology spending within decreasing budgets. The workload these systems can handle is outstanding.”

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NEW YORK: TheInfoPro, an independent research and advisory company for the IT industry, today released its latest server study, which yields some surprising results. For one, server spending remains weak, and the anticipated rebound from the 2008 economic downturn is minimal at best, with 25% of end users expecting to spend more and 39% of end users spending even less than in 2009.

The study details the continued impact of the economic downturn on the industry landscape, and provides insight into which vendors are adapting to the crisis – and which are not, including a roadmap for what to expect in the coming year.

On the hardware side, this spending drop can be directly attributed to virtualization, which seems to have permanently dampened demand, despite the fact that actual adoption rates remain slower than expected. In fact, nearly 40% of enterprises report that 10% or fewer of their servers host virtualization. And, while demand for desktop virtualization is real, its footprint is extremely limited and expected adoption even more modest than server virtualization.

Server software spending, meanwhile, is up across the board, with Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft all showing particular strength. Prospects for continued growth in 2011, however, remain dim.

Economic Climate, Budget Concerns Drive Industry Trends
The struggling global economy is reshaping the industry from within, forcing enterprises to adapt. Frozen budgets and excess capacity of hardware resources are acting as an “inflection point,” with companies moving immediate tactical goals to the forefront: 55% of end users report that their key virtualization goal for 2010 is "reducing the number of physical servers."

Yet, concerns remain over virtualization efficiency, with enterprises experiencing problems with performance under load and manageability with an increasingly mobile application base. In fact, while virtualization is supposed to be the solution to the market’s two biggest pain points – server sprawl and unchecked growth – it is itself ranked as the third biggest problem due to increasing complexity and scope.

Oracle Vulnerable; Dell Makes an Unlikely Comeback; Microsoft Remains a Threat
Of the major vendors, Oracle seems to be at its most vulnerable; spending on its Sun hardware line is in rapid decline, and there is growing discontent among end users – an extremely high 21% of its customers are planning to leave Oracle for a competitor, with an additional 26% considering it.

In terms of software, Oracle is doing no better, with 18% of end users considering switching to an alternative server provider such as rival Red Hat. Poor strategic management, competitive positioning, weakened sales-force quality and low-functioning tech support are among the most highly cited reasons. The bright spot? Lock-in seems to be working in Oracle’s favor, as only 5% of customers say they think they can transition easily to another provider.

Dell, on the other hand, is inspiring confidence from its price-sensitive customers since the last survey round. The company’s customer ratings improved in every category; the number of respondents indicating they were planning to make a switch was cut in half, and Dell is listed as in plan for a number of x86 groups, indicating that the company is gaining new consideration among “mature” tech companies.

Microsoft scored lowest on the vulnerability index of any vendor and seems poised for another strong year. Surprisingly, Hewlett-Packard quarterly spending is trending flat, despite the company sharing the title of most "exciting vendor" with VMware. While continuing to secure high marks for performance, the drop may be attributable to poorer overall service – customer satisfaction with HP dropped slightly across many categories.

The Cloud – and Other Trends to Watch
Cloud computing is certainly attracting the buzz, but in use remains low in the server industry, and 69% of respondents report that they do not have cloud computing in plan. Still, there is potential for growth. Thirty-five percent of respondents indicate that they are investigating cloud computing, a substantial boost of 15% since Q1 2009, with 33% indicating internal plans and 16% using externally provided services. Of this, VMware and Amazon are the main beneficiaries.

While 49% of enterprises believe blade servers are "critical to business," the "space savings" come at the cost of heat, space and power issues. Will environmental concerns derail the blade?

Finally, Cisco may be poised well for the coming year. Although a low percentage of respondents indicated they will spend money on UCS this year, the offering was the most repeatedly mentioned product, and the company was tabbed as the industry’s third most "exciting vendor."

About TheInfoPro Server Study
TheInfoPro's server study was completed in May 2010 and takes an in-depth look at key trends across the server industry, as well as the performance of individual vendors. The study is completed biannually and based on hourlong interviews with 252 server professionals and key decision-makers at large and midsize enterprises in North America. The interview results are collected in comprehensive research reports that provide continuous business intelligence within key areas such as technological road maps, spending plans and vendor performance.

About TheInfoPro
TheInfoPro is a leading advisory and research firm that provides real-world perspectives on the customer and market dynamics of the information technology landscape by using a unique research methodology that harnesses the collective knowledge and insights of leading IT organizations worldwide. Through a combination of expert advice, actionable analysis and our extensive network of IT professionals, TheInfoPro serves as a conduit between IT decision-makers, technology providers and institutional investors. Founded in 2002 by alumni of Gartner, Giga, EMC and Bell Labs, TheInfoPro is headquartered in New York City.

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