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Think AI Has Reshaped Cloud? Wait Until You See What’s Next.
Last month, 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 […]
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Heat Reuse In Data Centers May Be Required And Regulated
Debates surrounding the Energy Efficiency Act, which aims to reduce energy use in public authorities, corporations, and data centers, will potentially influence future laws globally. Why is this important and what does it mean? Here’s the context: Data centers use a lot of energy. The International Energy Agency estimated that global data center electricity consumption […]
Budget Your 2024 Cloud And AI Priorities Wisely
Download our 2024 Planning Guide for Technology Architecture & Delivery Leaders to learn where cloud, data center, software, and emerging tech budgets are shifting.
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Subscription Hardware Puts The Channel At Risk
Subscription-based hardware is the emerging model that every hardware vendor is promising to customers, partners, and investors. It’s a significant shift from the classic capex model in which firms spend money for outright hardware purchases. There are several scenarios such as new technology, short-term projects, test-before-you-buy, and infrastructure bundled with managed services, etc., where subscription-based […]
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Hyperscalers, It’s Time To FOCUS
In late June, at FinOps X, the annual event hosted by FinOps Foundation, a big topic was the open source project FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS), which aims to standardize the billing construct and presentation of cloud cost data. This is a BIG DEAL. In doing so, FOCUS will remove the complexity and […]
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SAP To Raise On-Premise Annual Support Fees An Average Of 5% Effective January 2024
Continuing the latest trend in price increases by major enterprise software vendors, SAP announced on July 26, 2023, that it will increase the annual support fees for SAP support agreements by roughly 5.0% (by local CPI rates, capped to 5%). This is on top of the previous increase announced in 2022 for an average support […]
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2024 Annual Planning: Don’t Let Caution Become Complacency
A precarious economy has tempered business and technology leaders' budget expectations. But now is not the time to retreat. Our 2024 planning guides advise on where to invest and experiment for success.
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Kubernetes: Innovation Enabler Or Implementation Detail?
The only thing more complex than running on Kubernetes is figuring out how to run containerized apps consistently across different environments without it. Find out more in this preview of our Technology & Innovation North America event.
2024 Tech Budget Missteps You’ll Want To Avoid
Explore benchmark data from Forrester’s 2024 Planning Guide reports for tech leaders to see where you’re over- or underinvesting.
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The Rise Of DIY In FinOps
One of the trends that emerged from FinOps X in San Diego is that DIY tooling is on the rise. Find out why Forrester typically tries to dissuade FinOps teams from taking this route.
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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 Explosion: Propelling India’s Digital Growth Story
Government, healthcare, retail, supply chain and logistics, manufacturing and financial services will see an explosion in cloud adoption in India. We expect the Indian cloud market to see unprecedented growth of 24% in the coming year. Indian enterprises adopting public cloud have spent an average of ₹3.7 billion on it in the past 12 months. […]
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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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IBM Reups On FinOps With Its Apptio Acquisition
Late Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM is in potential late-stage talks to acquire cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) and IT financial management (ITFM)/technology business management (TBM) company Apptio for roughly $5 billion. If the deal closes, the value would be at more than twice Apptio’s previous purchase price of $1.94 billion […]
Get Bullish On These 2024 Tech Budget Line Items
Download our 2024 Planning Guide for Technology Executives to learn where to halt legacy spending — and boost tech budgets to power the business growth agenda.
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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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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Functions-As-A-Service Platforms, Q2 2023
The functions-as-a-service (FaaS) market is developing rapidly as vendors elevate their offerings to meet enterprise needs. Driving demand is a shift from the cloud-born startup development shop to the large-scale enterprise, where FaaS platforms are helping developers rapidly deploy new capabilities into production without wrangling with Kubernetes clusters or building out application servers. To help […]
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Navigating The Digital Whirlwind: The Asia Pacific Tech Market Is Poised For 5.8% Growth Amid Economic Flux
The tide of COVID-19 has finally receded. As Asia’s economies repopulate the global economic shoreline, they find the beach littered with new opportunities and new threats. Not even half a year in, 2023 already feels like a pivotal year between two eras of digitization. As 2023 progresses, the Asia Pacific technology market is a cauldron […]
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Gaia-X Is Back, But Only Adoption Will Signal Success
The creation of the Gaia-X Digital Clearing House provides a more transparent view of cloud data sovereignty in Europe and facilitates cloud migration and data space projects. Learn more about the latest updates.
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Make The Case For FinOps
While the prevailing macroeconomic conditions reinforce the need to control cloud spend, CFOs still require a solid business case for any net-new spend. Building a business case for FinOps is relatively straightforward with a fairly quick ROI. First, most companies just purchase a relatively inexpensive cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) solution that adds efficiency, […]
Align Tech Spending With 2024 Benchmarks
Download our 2024 Planning Guide for Technology Executives to learn how to drive growth with strategic tech budgeting.
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Can Synthetic Data Help Deliver On The Promise Of AIOps?
Tools leveraging ML models in dynamic environments must be continuously fed new data in order to adapt to changing conditions and goals. They need to learn as much as possible about their new environments before being fully able and safe to provide service and ultimately deliver value. Synthetic data can help address these and other AI/ML challenges.
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The New Major Cloud Adopters: Financial Services
Learn why financial services organizations are relying more on public cloud today for digital banking services.
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Hybrid Cloud Is Hard To Manage
Get actionable tips and guidance on how to manage the messy hybrid cloud environment.
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