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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 […]
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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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.
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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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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 […]
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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, […]
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Hybrid Cloud Is Hard To Manage
Get actionable tips and guidance on how to manage the messy hybrid cloud environment.
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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Announcements: Bring-Your-Own Rack Mainframes And Multiple-Personality Storage
Learn why recent announcements from IBM and HPE show positive signs for hybrid cloud.
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What’s Up With SAP’s Cloudification Strategy In Europe?
Hear what customers are saying about the new SAP cloud strategy at the DSAG’s Technology Days event in Mannheim, Germany.
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FinOps Is Getting A Seat At The Executive Table
Earlier this year, I promised a slew of research on FinOps. Today, I published the first in this series, What Technology Executives Need To Know: FinOps. This report is especially timely, as FinOps is getting a front-row seat with executives globally across verticals and across organizations of all sizes. Amid a growing economic slowdown, efficiency […]
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AI Reshapes The 2023 Forrester Wave™ Evaluation For CCaaS
In the prior Forrester Wave™ evaluation on contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) providers in August of 2020, AI was mentioned offhand a few times. It was not, however, a factor in the Wave scoring at all. A few years changed everything. AI has taken center stage in this year’s Wave, providing new capabilities across many aspects of a CCaaS vendor’s offerings.
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Navigate Cloud Migration And Modernization In Asia Pacific
Firms need help dealing with challenges related to the migration, modernization, and management of workloads across hybrid cloud environments; lacking the relevant skills and expertise in house, they turn to professional services to help them realize cloud benefits faster. Sam and I recently published The State Of Cloud Migration And Modernization Services In Asia Pacific, […]
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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HPE Ramps Up Hybrid Cloud Management With OpsRamp Acquisition
On Monday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its intention to acquire OpsRamp, which offers a multitenant AIOps-powered IT operations management (ITOM) solution for hybrid cloud environments. Its AIOps solution will be integrated into HPE’s GreenLake edge-to-cloud Platform. OpsRamp’s 300 employees will join HPE’s office of the CTO. Terms of the OpsRamp acquisition were not announced, […]
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The Biggest Conversations In Cloud Management? FinOps And Operationalizing Cloud
Get a preview of our upcoming coverage in two key areas: operationalizing cloud and cloud cost management.
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A Short History Of Financial Services In The Cloud
I’ve been working with a long list of financial services companies from various subsectors on their cloud strategies. Each wants to know how to best take advantage of cloud while meeting stringent (and shifting) regulatory requirements. It’s been a long road for financial services and cloud. Here’s a little bit of history. Financial services have […]
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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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Learnings From Our Hybrid Cloud Management Forrester Wave™
This blog piggybacks off of my last post regarding the management evaluations I’ve been working on in 2022. As previously noted, they take a lot of effort but deliver high value — a lot of which can’t be captured in a single report. I already shared my tidbits of advice for the cost management evaluation. […]
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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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Forr The Planet: Sustainability Interview Series — Amazon Web Services
Learn about the the primary carbon reduction levers from being on the public cloud vs. being on premise from Christopher Wellise, director of sustainability and carbon at Amazon Web Services.
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