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The Four Agreements That Enterprise Business Applications Must Adopt
Enterprise business applications run all phases of a company’s operations such as sales, customer service, accounting, finance, human resources, inventory, and manufacturing. They streamline and coordinate work across the enterprise, supporting corporate goals of revenue, profitability, and cost optimization. As a result, the market for these applications continues to aggressively grow. Today’s business applications are […]
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Key Insights And Recommendations From VMware Explore 2024
Get six key takeaways from the annual VMware Explore 2024 conference and find out what they mean for technology leaders.
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HPE Seeks To Bolster Its Hybrid Cloud Management Capabilities And Credibility With Morpheus Acquisition
Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently announced an agreement to acquire Morpheus Data, a multicloud management solution. Find out what this means for the two firms and their customers in this blog.
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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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Serverless Is Trending Again In Modern Application Development
For a time, it appeared that the reach of serverless platforms had exceeded their grasp. After some notable success stories like the high-profile “serverless-first” Capital One strategy, hype appeared to be dying down. This is partly because serverless has always struggled from unclean definitions, and despite the lack of infrastructure and application servers to wrangle […]
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How Should Business And Tech Leaders Spend In 2025?
Business and tech leaders expect (slightly) bigger budgets next year. How should they use them? On this episode of What It Means, VPs and Group Research Directors Stephanie Balaouras, Keith Johnston, and Srividya Sridharan dive into Forrester’s Budget Planning Guides’ recommendations for tech, marketing and sales, and customer experience (CX) leaders.
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Learnings From The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024
At long last, The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization [CCMO] Solutions, Q3 2024 is published! This process is incredibly long and thorough. We go through hours-long briefings and customer calls and perform multiple iterations on scoring; the vendors go through the same. They put in many hours setting up customer references, product demonstrations, […]
What’s Your 2025 Budget Plan For AI, Software, & Tech Debt?
Attend our LIVE webinar on Sept. 24! Hear analyst insights on where to invest, divest, and experiment with 2025 tech and security budgets for maximum business impact.
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Sometimes Less Is More For Cloud-Powered Innovation: How Utilities And Telcos Are Rationalizing Their Clouds
Our latest report highlights how utilities and telcos, although relatively late to public cloud, are now eagerly pursuing its potential.
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The Benefits And Challenges Of Industry Clouds
What are industry clouds? What are their use cases, benefits, and drawbacks? Find out as VP and Principal Analyst Kate Leggett provides a detailed look at the latest trends in industry clouds.
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How Cloud-Native Development Benefits SaaS
For many organizations, SaaS and commercial off-the-shelf software are at best an 80% solution to the business need. Find out how cloud-native development can help close the gap in this preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summit North America.
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Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2024
The pace of technology innovation can make it hard to keep an eye on the tech horizon. In this episode, Vice President of Emerging Tech Portfolio Brian Hopkins walks through this year’s list of the top 10 emerging technologies, describing when each technology will bring value to users.
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Navigating The Disruption Of Broadcom’s Acquisition Of VMware
The broad changes Broadcom made in the wake of the deal have technology executives reviewing their technology roadmaps closely. In this episode Principal Analyst Naveen Chhabra walks through the changes and discusses the choices available to VMWare customers.
Drive High Performance With Your 2025 Tech Budget
2025 tech budgets are on the rise. Get our 2025 Planning Guide to learn where to invest your tech spend to boost performance, drive growth, and deliver competitive advantage.
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Key Takeaways From SAP Sapphire Orlando 2024
From generative AI to cloud to pricing announcements, the recent SAP Sapphire in Orlando was a busy event. Read this blog to get our key takeaways and perspectives on the big announcements from SAP.
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Insights From Cisco Live 2024: Splunk Integration, Security (And More Security), And AI Pragmatism
At its recent Cisco Live event, the tech giant made a number of new announcements, detailed plans for its $28 billion Splunk acquisition, and walked through its vision for the future. Get a detailed review in this post.
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Unleash The Power Of Tech: Technology & Innovation Summit North America
Technology and data leaders are at a pivotal moment, being pressed to chart a path that capitalizes on new and emerging technology to drive meaningful business results. Learn how Forrester’s annual Technology & Innovation Summit North America can help you get there.
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Deciphering Cloud Costs: There’s Hope
There are a lot of reasons why cloud cost management is a thorn in the CIO’s side. In this episode, Principal Analyst Tracy Woo describes how FinOps, the FOCUS standard, and other new initiatives can help reduce cloud costs.
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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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Attend our Technology & Innovation Summits for breakthrough research, strategies, and best practices to achieve high-performance IT, embrace AI, and fuel growth with emerging technology. Meet with a Forrester analyst to get perspective on your priorities.
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Cloud Security Provider Wiz Raises $1B In VC Funding, Passes On Lacework Acquisition
Wiz (founded in 2020) announced a new VC funding round of $1 billion at a post-money valuation of $12 billion. Wiz has cumulatively raised $1.8 billion in venture capital, is generating over $350 million in annual recurring revenue, and is on an upward trajectory toward a likely IPO in 2025. This signals high investor confidence […]
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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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GreenOps, FinOps, And The Sustainable Cloud
Rising consumer pressure and new regulatory reporting requirements have opened the door to a new approach: GreenOps, or the practice of minimizing a cloud environment’s carbon footprint through the efficient use of cloud resources. Learn more about GreenOps in this post.
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