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Use of the public cloud is accelerating, supporting enterprise digital transformation efforts. Read our insights on how firms can leverage the power of the cloud while mitigating security vulnerabilities and other risks.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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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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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Microsoft Races To Reassure Anxious Tech Execs In Europe
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
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
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
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London underscored that the cloud-native ecosystem is operating within a complex and increasingly uncertain global landscape.
Stop The Friction: Align CIOs & CISOs For Smarter 2026 Budget Planning
In uncertain times, teamwork is everything. Join Forrester analysts live on August 6 to align CIOs and CISOs on budget plans, prioritize smart investments, and fortify your security for 2026.
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SUSECON 25: Expanding Open Source In Cloud, Edge, And AI
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
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
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
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
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.
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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Serverless, Sovereignty, And (Of Course!) AI: Our Takeaways From The 2024 Public Cloud Platform Forrester Wave™ Evaluations
AI rightly has taken center stage in the public cloud platform market, but it’s not the only major transformation underway. Get three key takeaways from our most recent Wave™ reports on public cloud platforms.
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ai-PULSE: My First Time At A Cloud Vendor Event Focused Entirely On AI
Scaleway hosted its third ai-PULSE event on AI and cloud sustainability and sovereignty. Key discussions included the environmental impact of AI, the need for nuclear power, and digital sovereignty in AI deployments.
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Predictions 2025: Clouds Shift From Riches To RAGs
In 2025, public cloud AI offerings will continue to expand and mature, but private cloud will also thrive in the year ahead due to some complex industry dynamics. Get the details in our 2025 cloud predictions.
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