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Tokenomics: The Economics Of AI Value Realization
What is tokenomics? How do I manage token costs? Does tokenomics matter if I only purchase AI copilot subscriptions? Questions like these dominate the bulk of my client conversations. Tech leaders believe tokenomics is simply a token cost management exercise — it isn’t. Tokenomics may be one of the most misleading terms in the AI […]
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Predictions 2027: AI’s Sovereignty Crisis Drives Governments To Attempt Greater Control
AI is exposing how little control governments have over the technology, suppliers, and skills that power public services. In 2027, expect greater intervention as governments confront the limits of digital sovereignty.
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Open-Weight Models Are Proliferating, But The Platform Race Matters More
Last week, AI startup Reflection released a new open weight model, Beam, claiming parity with leading Chinese open models and at only “a fraction of the token cost and inference time.” Days later, Mistral introduced open-weight model Mistral Large 4 (ML4), nicknamed Le Chonk in reference to its 1 trillion parameters. Taken together, these models […]
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Introducing Neocloud And NeoPaaS: The Next Frontiers Of The AI-Native Cloud
Last year, Forrester introduced the concept of the AI-native cloud, as we observed that the cloud industry was moving beyond commodity infrastructure toward platforms that are purpose-built for generative AI (genAI) and agentic AI. We also identified two emerging paths in this transformation: AI infrastructure cloud platforms (neoclouds) and AI-centric neo-platforms as a service (neoPaaSes). […]
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Anthropic’s Pricing Shift Puts AI Consumption Risk Back On Customers
Back in May of this year, Anthropic announced changes to its pricing model. Its original fixed-fee, per-seat subscription model was replaced with one that separates platform access from AI consumption. Customers still pay for access, but usage is now metered and billed separately based on token consumption. Under the previous model, customers were split into […]
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AI Cost Management: How Prepared Are You?
As AI adoption accelerates, many organizations are discovering that spending is rising faster than their ability to control it. Building the right cost management capabilities is becoming essential to scaling AI without sacrificing financial discipline.
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AI Is Turning Unified Storage Into A Strategic Decision
Unified storage has long been treated as a pragmatic, commodity storage investment: Balance cost, simplify operations, move on. In a world of AI enablement and, consequently, downside AI risk, that mindset no longer holds. Agentic, autonomous AI use cases are making storage a strategic decision point to address capability needs, performance requirements, and GRC concerns. AI systems increasingly operate directly on live enterprise data, […]
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Circular IT And Factual ESG Data Are Becoming Architecture Decisions
As global CO₂ emissions continue to rise, IT stands out as one of the fastest‑growing contributors, driven by expanding digital estates, accelerating AI investments, and rapidly growing data center demand. This reality is reshaping expectations for enterprise architecture (EA). Architects are no longer asked only to optimize cost, performance, and resilience. They are increasingly expected […]
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SUSECON 2026: From Open Infrastructure To Operational Sovereignty
SUSECON 2026 in Prague marked a clear advance on the platform pillars SUSE introduced a year earlier in Orlando — and a more forceful articulation of its choice narrative. SUSE argued that choice only matters if it can be operationalized: enabling sovereign workload control and resilience not just to technical failure but to economic and […]
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Google Cloud Next 2026: The End Of The AI Pilot Era
Google Cloud Next 2026 opened with Thomas Kurian declaring the end of the AI pilot era and Sundar Pichai comparing the enterprise refrain of last year (“Can we build an agent?”) to today’s: “How do we manage thousands of them?” Google Cloud Next ’26 answers the second question with a single product story: Gemini Enterprise […]
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KubeCon Europe 2026: The Not-So-Unseen Engine Behind AI Innovation?
At KubeCon Europe 2026, Kubernetes’ AI story shifted from “add support” to “rebuild the platform.” AI conformance, upstream GPU orchestration, shared inference blueprints, and in-platform governance are setting the new defaults.
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Revisiting Our 2025 Cloud Predictions: Hits, Misses, And Lessons
Predictions are a tough sport to play. If you get them all right, you played it safe by recapping existing trends or gave wishy-washy statements that are hard to verify. If you got them all wrong, you likely went for the headlines with little accountability on those claims. Every year, we try to find that […]
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What We Saw At AWS re:Invent 2025
The goal of this year’s event was to position AWS as a newly transformed, AI-native cloud that’s ready right now. Here’s a closer look at the key announcements and developments.
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KubeCon North America 2025 Retrospective: Closed Source And Open Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud
The 10th anniversary of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta was both a celebration of progress in the open-source community and a moment of reflection about the challenges facing that same community amid change.
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Cloudflare’s Outage: Another Wake-Up Call For Cloud Resilience
Some of the biggest online platforms in the world were recently knocked offline by an automatically generated configuration file that grew too large. In a world plagued by security threats, operational failures can still happen even in your favorite cloud service. Find out why and how to reduce your risk.
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Predictions 2026: Cloud Outages, Private AI On Private Clouds, And The Rise Of The Neoclouds
Cloud in 2026 will be defined by two major races: the hyperscaler race to build AI-native cloud infrastructure and the enterprise race to craft meaningful AI strategies. Our predictions break those down.
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AWS Outage, Safety On Meta, ChatGPT’s AI-First Browser
Recently, a very bad day for AWS became everyone else’s very annoying day. And while the disruption was fairly short-lived, there are longer-term lessons to be learned. In this episode, we look at the lessons from the recent AWS outage as well as an overdue step by a social media giant and a reimagining of how we access information on the web.
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Oracle AI World 2025: The First Look Under New Command
Get key takeaways from Oracle's newly renamed annual conference, the first with new CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia at the helm.
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The AWS US-East Outage: A Wake-Up Call For Cloud Resilience
The fourth outage in five years for AWS’s US-East region was traced to DNS resolution failures that affected many core services. Find out what you should do from both the technology and the supplier risk management side to improve your cloud resilience.
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VMware Explore Paris 2025: Our Take On Private AI And Private Cloud Sovereignty
VMware Explore’s 2025 Paris event showcased the future of VMware Private AI and cloud sovereignty with the launch of VCF 9.0. From sovereign AI use cases to disconnected cloud operations, the event highlighted VMware’s evolving role in enabling secure, compliant infrastructure across Europe.
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