Lee Sustar
Principal Analyst
 
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			The AWS US-East Outage: A Wake-Up Call For Cloud Resilience
				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. 			
			
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			Announcing Our Top 10 Cloud Trends For 2025
				Cloud used to be a sleepy space but not anymore. Today, the top cloud trends are the top business trends. Learn three of the top 10 cloud trends for 2025 in this preview of a new report.			
			
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			What To Expect At KubeCon North America 2025
				Kubernetes is evolving from a cloud-native foundation to an AI-native enabler. Get a preview of what to expect at the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 event in Atlanta on November 10–13.			
			
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			The Commodity Cloud Era Is Over — The AI-Native Cloud Is Here
				CIOs questioning whether hyperscale cloud providers can deliver on their AI promises should follow the money. The numbers tell the story.			
			
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			Choosing The Right Public Cloud Platform In 2025: What’s At Stake?
				Selecting a public cloud platform is no longer just about technical fit — it’s about strategic alignment. Learn three key strategic differentiators that should guide final decisions in this preview of our new report Buyer’s Guide: Public Cloud Platforms, 2025.			
			
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			Sovereign AI: NexGen Cloud Gets Funds For Its Infrastructure In Europe
				Cloud vendors are focusing on bringing AI solutions to their customers in ways that addresses sovereignty concerns rising from the mounting geopolitical instability globally. Just in the first two weeks of April, we have seen this at KubeCon 2025 Europe and at Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas.			
			
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			SUSECON 25: Expanding Open Source In Cloud, Edge, And AI
				At its recent SUSECON 25 event, SUSE revealed a rebranded portfolio focused on four key platforms. Learn more about those changes and how they could impact your technology plans in this review of the event.			
			
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			Google To Acquire CNAPP Specialist Unicorn Wiz For $32 Billion
				Learn what the largest-ever acquisition in cybersecurity means both for Google and the CNAPP space.			
			
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			The Power Of Open Source: Cloud-Native Is Transforming As AI Takes The Limelight
				Three years ago, Lee Sustar and I published the report, Navigate The Cloud-Native Ecosystem In 2022. In that report, we analyzed how the cloud-native ecosystem, driven by open-source software (OSS), has been powering architecture modernization across infrastructure and application development, enabling platform-driven innovation in the meantime across a spectrum of technology domains such as data […]			
			
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			Technology And Security Predictions: Your Questions Answered
				Couldn’t make the recent webinar covering our 2025 technology and security predictions? Check out the webinar replay and read our analysts’ responses to some of the most pressing attendee questions about the year ahead.			
			
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			What We Saw At AWS re:Invent 2024
				AWS may have been caught off guard by the sudden rise of generative AI, but now it’s coming for the competition from every possible angle. Get our key takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024.			
			
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			Serverless, Sovereignty, And (Of Course!) AI: Our Takeaways From The 2024 Public Cloud Platform Forrester Wave™ Evaluations
				AI rightly has taken center stage in the public cloud platform market, but it’s not the only major transformation underway. Get three key takeaways from our most recent Wave™ reports on public cloud platforms. 			
			
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			Predictions 2025: Clouds Shift From Riches To RAGs
				In 2025, public cloud AI offerings will continue to expand and mature, but private cloud will also thrive in the year ahead due to some complex industry dynamics. Get the details in our 2025 cloud predictions.			
			
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			Prognosen 2025: RAGs halten Einzug in die Cloud
				2025 wird das KI-Angebot für die öffentliche Cloud weiter wachsen und reifen. Aber auch die private Cloud wird im kommenden Jahr aufgrund einer komplexen Branchendynamik florieren. Erfahren Sie mehr Details in unseren Prognosen 2025 zur Cloud.			
			
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			The 10 Most Important Cloud Trends For 2024
				Curious about the top cloud trends in 2024? Learn three of the top 10 cloud trends for 2024 in this preview of a new report.			
			
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			AI, Platforms, And Big Promises: What We Saw At Red Hat Summit
				IT platform teams are being pushed to deliver more and are eager for new solutions. Find out what solutions the 6,000 attendees at the Red Hat Summit in Denver got in early May in this review of the event. 			
			
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			With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS?
				AWS announced this week that Adam Selipsky will depart as CEO and Matt Garman, AWS senior VP of sales and marketing, would replace him in June. Find out what the implications of this move could be at a critical time for AWS and the broader cloud market overall. 			
			
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			Can Your IT Operating Model Keep Up With Cloud?
				Cloud has driven enterprise IT transformation with newfound speed and scale. But IT operating models haven’t always kept up. Learn how Forrester’s Cloud Operating Model Framework can help catch up. 			
			
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			It Ain’t Just AI: What We Saw At Google Cloud Next
				Google recently held its Google Cloud Next conference four months early to unveil new AI offerings and upstage its rivals. Get a detailed review of all of the announcements at the event in this post.  			
			
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			Your Cloud Strategy Is Now Your AI Strategy, Too
				The AI cloud is on the rise. Learn the key considerations that cloud customers should have as they sort out which cloud offerings fit and which don’t fit with their AI workload requirements.			
			
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