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AWS Makes Agentic Push At AWS Summit New York City 2025
AWS Summit New York City is a smaller cousin to the re:Invent mega-conference set for the late fall in Las Vegas, so most big announcements tend to wait until that event, but agentic AI won’t wait, despite its relatively modest take-up to date.
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Optimize Your Provider Ecosystem For Maximum Business Value
The struggle to balance single- and multisourcing decisions is pervasive. Because service engagement decisions are fragmented across the organization and made at the portfolio level — not the enterprise level — companies are constantly at odds.
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Navigating The Geopolitical Cloud: ASEAN’s Diverse Approach To Digital Sovereignty
What we’re now observing in Southeast Asia is a more nuanced and strategically driven “diverse cloud” approach that directly addresses concerns around US foreign policy uncertainty and the imperative for localized data control.
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From Digital Sovereignty Platforms To Sovereign Cloud Platforms: Three Reasons For A Title Change
Learn how increased complexity and additional market factors led us to rethink the title of our upcoming Forrester Landscape report on digital sovereignty platforms
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Forrester’s 2025 Enterprise Architecture Awards Winner And Runners-Up For APAC
Congratulations to the Hong Kong Jockey Club, this year’s winner of the Enterprise Architecture Award in APAC, and runners-up AIA Group and Nan Shan Life Insurance Company. Learn how excellent EA practices helped all three align their IT strategies with business objectives, empowering them to accelerate business innovation and stay ahead of the curve.
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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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Google Cloud And Oracle Aggressively Discount To Keep US Federal Business
Both Google Cloud and Oracle announced massive price reductions in their contracts under pressure from the General Services Administration, which oversees federal procurement. Learn more about the specifics and the implications of this shift.
Master Scenario Planning For 2026
2026 could bring economic highs, disruptive lows, and everything in between. Join Forrester’s Greg Willrich and Mark Moccia live on September 10 to explore how CIOs are using scenario planning to navigate uncertainty, optimize tech investments, and lead with confidence.
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Jekyll And Hyde: The Dual Role Of Disruptive Technologies In Sustainability
Disruptive technologies such AI can boost efforts towards some strategic priorities, but can also work against environmental sustainability goals. Learn more about the the dual role played by six of the most important disruptive technologies poised to shape sustainability in 2025.
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Bringing AI To The Core: IBM’s Bets On In-Platform Intelligence
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.
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What International Customers Should Know About Microsoft’s Sovereign Cloud Offerings
Given the increasingly volatile geopolitical environment, Microsoft customers are requesting more details on the company’s digital sovereignty posture. Consequently, Microsoft has now updated its sovereign cloud offerings to include details for Sovereign Public Cloud, Sovereign Private Cloud, and National Partner Cloud. Find out what this means and how it may impact your strategy in this post.
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The Future Of Healthcare Is In The Cloud
Cloud is transforming healthcare by enabling smarter, faster, and more secure care delivery — but challenges such as security, interoperability, and clinician burnout still demand bold innovation.
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Chaos Is A Ladder: Government Innovation In 2025
Driven by budget uncertainty, workforce shifts, and the accelerating pace of technology, our government clients are navigating radical change.
New For 2026! Tech Budget Planning Guide + Workbook
Simplify your 2026 tech budget planning! Download our guide and workbook for recommendations, benchmarks, and actionable templates to help you assess, prioritize, and implement investments.
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AI Isn’t Cheap — Here’s How To Spend Smarter
While enterprise AI spending remains relatively modest today, the potential for overspending is significant. Most organizations are still experimenting, with only a few production-ready use cases. But that’s about to change.
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FinOps In Government: Why It’s A Different Ball Game
The rush to the cloud, particularly following the pandemic years, led to an alarming spike in cloud costs. Learn why FinOps has only recently been adopted at scale in the US government.
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FinOps X Recap — AI, Scopes, And FOCUS 1.2
The size of the event and firms in attendance at this year's FinOps X conference underscored that FinOps is not just a math exercise, but a business-critical process. Read the highlights in this review of the event.
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Salesforce Accelerates Its Path To Agentic AI
Acquiring Informatica fuels Salesforce’s hard pivot to reinvent itself as an AI-first company and away from its CRM roots. Learn more about the impact of this acquisition on both companies and their customers in this post.
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SAP Sapphire 2025: What Tech Leaders Need To Know
SAP Sapphire 2025 featured a flood of updates, from partnerships with Palantir and Perplexity to sweeping changes in pricing and packaging. But the real story was SAP’s repositioning of AI as the enterprise operating system. Learn more in this SAP Sapphire 2025 review.
Summer Team Up: Technology & Innovation Summit EMEA
From 1 July to 29 August, purchase passes for Technology & Innovation Summit EMEA and get two tickets for the price of one with the voucher code SUMMER2FOR1.
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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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Tackling Cloud Security: US State And Local Government Edition
Learn some of the unique challenges that state and local governments face when it comes to cloud security and governance.
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S3NS Summit Highlights Sovereignty And Trusted Cloud Progress
S3NS, established three years ago, is a cloud hosting company that aims to deliver a sovereign and secure cloud solution for the French market. Formed as a joint venture between Google and Thales, S3NS adheres to strict governance rules to ensure compliance with French sovereignty requirements.
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