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AWS Makes Agentic Push At AWS Summit New York City 2025

Bill Martorelli August 13, 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

Bill Martorelli August 13, 2025
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.

New For 2026! Tech Budget Planning Guide + Workbook

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From Digital Sovereignty Platforms To Sovereign Cloud Platforms: Three Reasons For A Title Change

Dario Maisto August 11, 2025
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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Google Cloud And Oracle Aggressively Discount To Keep US Federal Business

Tracy Woo July 24, 2025
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.
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The Future Of Healthcare Is In The Cloud

Tracy Woo June 24, 2025
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

Lauren Nelson June 16, 2025
Driven by budget uncertainty, workforce shifts, and the accelerating pace of technology, our government clients are navigating radical change.
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AI Isn’t Cheap — Here’s How To Spend Smarter

Michele Goetz June 12, 2025
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

Tracy Woo June 11, 2025
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

Tracy Woo June 9, 2025
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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Choosing The Right Public Cloud Platform In 2025: What’s At Stake?

Dario Maisto May 29, 2025
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

Andras Cser May 20, 2025
Learn some of the unique challenges that state and local governments face when it comes to cloud security and governance.
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Microsoft Races To Reassure Anxious Tech Execs In Europe

Dario Maisto May 12, 2025
Increasing geopolitical volatility has characterized the last three years in Europe and is reaching new heights. Learn what Microsoft has committed to do and what tech executives should watch out for.

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Google Cloud Next 2025: Agentic AI Stack, Multimodality, And Sovereignty

Dario Maisto April 15, 2025
Loads of news came out of a hot Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas. The most notable announcements? Sovereign AI solutions on-prem, developer innovations that meet timely needs, very applicable multimodality for content and CX, and new elements for building the enterprise agentic AI stack.
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Sovereign AI: NexGen Cloud Gets Funds For Its Infrastructure In Europe

Dario Maisto April 14, 2025
Cloud vendors are focusing on bringing AI solutions to their customers in ways that addresses sovereignty concerns rising from the mounting geopolitical instability globally. Just in the first two weeks of April, we have seen this at KubeCon 2025 Europe and at Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas.
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KubeCon 2025: Technology Resilience, Sovereignty, And Security In An Era Of Political Change

Dario Maisto April 9, 2025
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London underscored that the cloud-native ecosystem is operating within a complex and increasingly uncertain global landscape.
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SUSECON 25: Expanding Open Source In Cloud, Edge, And AI

Michele Pelino March 24, 2025
At its recent SUSECON 25 event, SUSE revealed a rebranded portfolio focused on four key platforms. Learn more about those changes and how they could impact your technology plans in this review of the event.
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The Power Of Open Source: Cloud-Native Is Transforming As AI Takes The Limelight

Charlie Dai March 13, 2025
Three years ago, Lee Sustar and I published the report, Navigate The Cloud-Native Ecosystem In 2022. In that report, we analyzed how the cloud-native ecosystem, driven by open-source software (OSS), has been powering architecture modernization across infrastructure and application development, enabling platform-driven innovation in the meantime across a spectrum of technology domains such as data […]

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Technology And Security Predictions: Your Questions Answered

Sandy Carielli February 3, 2025
Couldn’t make the recent webinar covering our 2025 technology and security predictions? Check out the webinar replay and read our analysts’ responses to some of the most pressing attendee questions about the year ahead.
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NetApp Focuses On Storage And Exits FinOps

Tracy Woo January 22, 2025
Last week, Flexera announced intent to acquire Spot by NetApp to the tune of $100 million, a considerable drop from the $450 million that NetApp paid to acquire Spot.
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AI, FinOps, And Digital Sovereignty Lead Global Cloud Trends

Dario Maisto December 11, 2024
Cloud continues to serve as the heart of major technology innovations, especially amid the age of AI. Learn three key trends influencing cloud adoption across global markets in this preview of our latest research on cloud trends.
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