Brent Ellis

Over the past several months, I’ve gotten a sharp uptick in questions from infrastructure leaders trying to make sense of rising infrastructure costs. The questions are all variations of the same theme: What’s actually driving this? Is it temporary? And what — realistically — can we do about it? The short answer is that this […]

The alleged Stryker cyberattack underscores a critical blind spot in enterprise resilience strategies: the outsized risk and impact of compromised device and endpoint management platforms.

Anthropic’s push into agentic AI highlights a core enterprise challenge: Speed alone is not enough. It's governance, trust, and accountability that determine real value.

SpaceX’s latest FCC filing signals a bold escalation in the battle for AI infrastructure dominance: a proposal to deploy up to 1 million solar‑powered orbital data‑center satellites — positioning space, not Earth, as the next frontier for compute capacity. Framed as “the most efficient way to meet the accelerating demand for AI computing power” and […]

The 10th anniversary of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta was both a celebration of progress in the open-source community and a moment of reflection about the challenges facing that same community amid change.

Some of the biggest online platforms in the world were recently knocked offline by an automatically generated configuration file that grew too large. In a world plagued by security threats, operational failures can still happen even in your favorite cloud service. Find out why and how to reduce your risk.

The infrastructure landscape is at a crossroads. As AI agents and automation reshape business operations, traditional infrastructure — often rigid, slow, and siloed — can no longer keep pace with the demands of modern enterprises. Learn how Forrester's new OASIS Framework for outcome-driven infrastructure platforms can provide the vision for how technology leaders should build infrastructure for the agentic AI era.

In times of calm, but especially in times of chaos, risk management strategies and their execution must be dictated by context and control. Prioritizing key risks and crafting appropriate responses is essential to keeping the business going.

Learn some of the key themes from the NetApp INSIGHT 2025 event and find out what they could mean for your storage portfolio.

The fourth outage in five years for AWS’s US-East region was traced to DNS resolution failures that affected many core services. Find out what you should do from both the technology and the supplier risk management side to improve your cloud resilience.

Huawei Connect 2025 was more than showing off new products. This year topics such as export controls and supply chain constraints dominated the conversation. Find out more in this event review.

Two years into Broadcom ownership, VMware is settling into its new normal — with the VMware Explore event bringing forth the first reported results on executing on a seemingly harsh but clearly stated strategy.

Enterprises must transform traditional infrastructure into strategic platforms that drive innovation, resilience, and adaptability to address the agentic era. Learn why well-aligned, future-proof infrastructure is key to enabling intelligent business ecosystems and achieving enterprise goals in this preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summit.

IBM’s 2025 infrastructure refresh isn’t just a silicon upgrade. It’s a performance, TCO, and sovereignty play. Get a detailed breakdown of the update and four clear next steps in this post.

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.

Find out why Dell’s founder believes that this is AI’s “Model T moment” and that Dell is positioned to be the Ford of the AI era.

Get Forrester's five key takeaways from the recent IBM Think 2025 event and our five pieces of advice for technology leaders based on what we heard.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London underscored that the cloud-native ecosystem is operating within a complex and increasingly uncertain global landscape.

Litigation has become the default method for companies to resolve disagreements, force accountability, and establish recourse for everything from breach-related failures to contractual disagreements. A recent lawsuit filed by VMware (now owned by Broadcom) against its customer, Siemens’ US operations, for alleged use of unlicensed software is not unique and should serve as a stark […]