Andre Kindness
Principal Analyst
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How F5 And SonicWall Revealed The Fragility Of The Software Supply Chain
The recent breaches at F5 and SonicWall illustrate how attackers are targeting the very infrastructure that enterprises rely on to secure and deliver digital services.
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The Forrester Wave™: Secure Access Service Edge Solutions, Q3 2025 — A Market Transformed
We just released The Forrester Wave™: Secure Access Service Edge Solutions, Q3 2025, and the results mark a dramatic shift from the 2023 Wave on Zero Trust edge solutions.
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HPE Discover 2025: AI Is Infrastructure; Infrastructure Is AI
Get Forrester's take on seven key announcements coming out of the event and find out how these developments may shape or disrupt your IT roadmap.
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Telecom Costs Are Creeping Up — Here’s How To Push Back
Despite years of investment in optimization tools and network modernization, many firms are still seeing their telecom bills rise. Find out what's behind this uptick and how to manage it in this preview of a new report.
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Key Takeaways From Cisco Live 2025: Cisco’s Big Bets For Unified Security And AI
Cisco Live 2025 Focused On Three Main Themes: AI, Simplification, And Security At its annual Cisco Live event, the company delivered a clear message: It’s operationalizing AI across the core pillars of networking, security, and observability. Building on last year’s momentum with innovations like Hypershield and Splunk integration, the company has framed its vision around […]
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Mobile World Congress 2025: The New, The Same, The Gone
The energy was high at last month's Mobile World Congress. Learn about out new topics that emerged in 2025, and which continued from 2024 in this MWC review.
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Why We’re Moving From ZTE To SASE Terminology
Find out why Forrester is pivoting away from the term Zero Trust edge (ZTE) in favor of the term secure access service edge (SASE).
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DeepSeek Is Resetting The Bar For AI Infrastructure
The infrastructure needed for inferencing with DeepSeek's R1 open-source AI model is far less than what its competitors use. Learn six ways this could benefit your organization's AI plans.
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Why The DOJ Is Worried About Networking Innovation And What Paths Lie Ahead For HPE And Juniper
The Department of Justice's action to block the Juniper acquisition won't save innovation in networking. No matter whether or not the acquisition proceeds, customers will benefit if they are put front and center.
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Transforming Enterprise Networks With AIOps: A New Era Of Intelligent Connectivity
Learn how AIOps provides real-time contextualization and insights across the IT estate, ensuring that network infrastructure operates at peak efficiency in serving business needs.
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Gone Are The Days Of Networking Infrastructure Choice
One outcome of internal developments or acquisitions is that networking infrastructure choice has evaporated — even if vendors claim otherwise. HPE's recent acquisition of Juniper brings this into focus.
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Key Insights And Recommendations From VMware Explore 2024
Get six key takeaways from the annual VMware Explore 2024 conference and find out what they mean for technology leaders.
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HPE Seeks To Bolster Its Hybrid Cloud Management Capabilities And Credibility With Morpheus Acquisition
Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently announced an agreement to acquire Morpheus Data, a multicloud management solution. Find out what this means for the two firms and their customers in this blog.
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Insights From Cisco Live 2024: Splunk Integration, Security (And More Security), And AI Pragmatism
At its recent Cisco Live event, the tech giant made a number of new announcements, detailed plans for its $28 billion Splunk acquisition, and walked through its vision for the future. Get a detailed review in this post.
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AWS Joins Google Cloud In Removing Egress Costs
Learn two key steps your IT org should take in light of this announcement from AWS.
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AT&T Outage Shines A Spotlight On Network Dependability
What are the key lessons telecommunications carriers and IT and technology leaders can learn from the recent AT&T outage? Find out in this summary of the outage and its impact on IT leaders.
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HPE + Juniper Networks Creates A Cisco Doppelganger
What does the HPE acquisition of Juniper Networks mean for technology leaders and the market overall? Find out in this detailed analysis of the deal.
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Cisco Is Getting Back Into The Game
Big changes have started to ripple through Cisco as it slims down one of the industry’s largest routing, switching, and wireless product portfolios. Learn more about its updated networking strategy.
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What’s Behind The Strategy Axis In A Forrester Wave™ Evaluation?
TL;DR: It gauges your vendor’s commitment. As some of you might have noticed, David Holmes and I released Forrester’s inaugural ZTE evaluation, The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Edge Solutions, Q3 2023. If you haven’t taken a look, please do. The research is the first in the industry to tackle the secure WAN space, with probably […]
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A Deep Dive Into The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Edge Solutions, Q3 2023
Get an inside look at the industry’s first evaluation of all-in-one Zero Trust Edge (ZTE) solutions, which some vendors call secure software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and others call secure access service edge (SASE).
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