Lee Sustar
Principal Analyst

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Welcome To The Chip Wars, Microsoft
The move erodes lucrative business for the current main players. We break down what it means for tech buyers.
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Prognosen 2024: KI wird eine enorme Chance – aber auch eine Bedrohung – für große Cloud-Akteure sein
Die disruptive Kraft von KI wird 2024 den Cloud-Markt erschüttern. Erfahren Sie mehr in unseren Prognosen 2024 zum Cloud Computing.
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Predictions 2024: AI Will Boost Big Cloud Players — But Threaten Them, Too
The disruptive forces of AI will shake up the cloud market in 2024. Learn more in our 2024 cloud computing predictions.
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Prévisions 2024 : l’IA, croissance et menace pour les acteurs du Big Cloud
Les forces perturbatrices de l'IA vont secouer le marché du cloud computing en 2024. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos prévisions 2024 sur le cloud computing.
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Think AI Has Reshaped Cloud? Wait Until You See What’s Next.
Recently, I published The Future Of Cloud report and a corresponding blog post to talk about its future as abstracted, intelligent, and composable. Let’s take a closer look at the “intelligent” component and what it means amid the intense interest in generative AI today and long-term trends in cloud. Cloud is nearly always mentioned in […]
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The Future Of Cloud: Abstracted, Intelligent, And Composable
It’s been a great decade and a half for the cloud. Every tech executive I speak with wants to know what’s next — and not just in the next couple of years but the next decade. In my latest report, The Future Of Cloud, I lay it all out. In a nutshell, cloud is destined […]
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Cloud Providers’ Focus On AI Hasn’t Paid Off … Yet
The advent of the AI cloud has the potential to shake up the market by allowing current leaders and new challengers to focus on higher-margin services. Learn how in this blog post.
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To Secure Kubernetes, Think Beyond Kubernetes
Kubernetes is the de facto standard for deploying and managing application workloads and containers. Lee has written quite a bit about the power of Kubernetes as an innovation platform, but while development and architecture teams are bullish on Kubernetes, security teams can find themselves scrambling to secure Kubernetes environments as they hurtle toward production. The […]
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Top Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Development And Infrastructure Platforms, Global, Q4 2022
The four-way hyperscaler horse for market share matters as the leading players continue to invest up and down the stack for new capabilities that set the pace for the industry. Those efforts are reflected in the results of The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Development And Infrastructure Platforms, Global, Q4 2022, in which custom silicon and […]
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The DoD Announces The Winners For Its $9B JWCC Contract
This week, the US Department of Defense put an end to the year-long suspense by announcing the winners for its Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure were the big winners of the $9 billion contract.
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Uneven Innovation At AWS re:Invent 2022
Some 14 Forrester analysts attended this year’s AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. The conference was a mix of innovation in some areas — particularly compute and networking, along with a co-engineering approach to industry cloud — but plateaus in others, such as hybrid and edge. Efficiency and consolidation were underlying themes, from amping up AI/ML […]
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Announcing The Public Cloud Market Outlook, 2022 To 2026
The four biggest public cloud providers are intensifying their struggle for market share.
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The NVIDIA/Microsoft AI Supercomputer Cloud Is A No-Brainer
Learn about NVIDIA's multiyear collaboration with Microsoft to build a cloud-based artificial intelligence supercomputer.
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Take A Pragmatic Approach To Embrace A Cloud-Native-First Strategy
The era of cloud-native transformation is here. Cloud-native is core to modern IT infrastructure, thanks to the power of the Kubernetes distributed compute backbone. Vibrant open source communities, effective product implementations by vendors, and savvy adoption by enterprises have created a dynamic, powerful cloud-native ecosystem that puts cloud scale in the hands of business and […]
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Predictions 2023: Tech Leaders Double Down On Cloud-Native While Google Buys More Market Share
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The Era Of Cloud-Native Transformation Is Here
As KubeCon North America 2022 gets underway, it’s useful to reflect on how far the cloud-native ecosystem has come, a focus of a new report by my colleague Charlie Dai and me. It wasn’t so long ago that IT enterprise architects began every project with a list of constraints: What can be built with a […]
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VMware Bets Its Future On Multicloud — But The Odds Are Long
Will enterprises pay big money for both public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and VMware cloud infrastructure services just to get past hyperscaler lock-in? That’s VMware’s wager in a multicloud and hybrid world, and the company’s flagship user event touted a series of services and offerings to convince customers to take VMware with them […]
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Aiming For Innovation: Cloud In The US Today
Cloud is no longer simply a path to greater efficiency. Today, it's a strategy for IT modernization. Get a preview of Forrester's new report, The State Of The Cloud In The US, in this blog post.
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VMware Customers: Get Ready For Broadcom Disruption
Late Sunday evening, Bloomberg reported rumors of advanced Broadcom talks to acquire VMware, which has since been confirmed this morning. In light of Broadcom’s investment activities in the past few years, this news is unsurprising. It made a string of massively expensive enterprise software company acquisitions: Brocade Communications Systems in 2016 ($5.9 billion), CA Technologies […]
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The CISA Promotes Cloud Visibility And Security With Its SCuBA TRA
Get ready for the semi-nationalization of public cloud security in the US. The Secure Cloud Business Applications Technical Reference Architecture (SCuBA TRA) from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provides a wide-ranging set of cloud security requirements for civilian agencies that have thus far been outside the boundaries of the FedRAMP program. The proposed […]
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