Naveen Chhabra,

Naveen Chhabra

Principal Analyst

Naveen is Forrester’s lead infrastructure, private cloud, and infrastructure automation analyst, delivering strategic guidance to Forrester's vendor and end-user clients. Naveen’s vision for technology leaders is to leverage IT automation and to build and deliver dependable technology services. His research includes technology automation, infrastructure as code (IaC), AIOps, hyperconverged infrastructure, converged infrastructure, and subscription-based infrastructure. Most notably, Naveen leads the industry conversation around bringing cloud-based experiences and expectations to on-premises environments. He actively researches how organizations improve the benefits of automation by aligning people, partners, and practices. His strong multifunctional experiences and background across product development, technology operations, and business management give him a unique ability to provide broad, perspective-based guidance. During his tenure at Forrester, Naveen has been frequently cited in Business Insider, Computer Weekly, Fortune, Reuters, TechTarget, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Each End Is A New Beginning: What Does End-To-End Automation Really Mean?

End-to-end automation means different things to different people. At its narrowest, it’s going from compile to staging. More broadly, it can encompass the entire software development lifecycle, from collecting requirements to eventual retirement of the product and the infrastructure it runs on. Join Naveen, Chris, and Andrew to learn where to best end — and start — your automation journey.Key takeaways: Learn what end-to-end automation means.Discover how to redefine the boundaries of automation.Target audience level: intermediate and advanced