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• Forum Technology & Innovation

  learn best practices for driving innovation across your enterprise.

  November 3, 2020 | Chicago | Liz Herbert, Matthew Guarini, Brian Hopkins

  In today’s innovation-driven business environment, technology leaders have a unique opportunity to move beyond the traditional back-office IT function and become the catalysts of business...

• Report Now Tech: Virtual Network Infrastructure Switching Fabric, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 14 VNI Switching Fabric Providers

  April 22, 2020 | Andre Kindness

  Business and technology leaders can use virtual networking infrastructure (VNI) switching fabric to connect business resources, enhance customer interactions, and deliver new services and products....

• Report Research Overview: Enterprise Networking Technology For 2020

  A Guide To Building Your Next-Generation Network Using The Five Tenets Of Virtual Network Infrastructure

  April 22, 2020 | Andre Kindness

  I&O professionals need to acknowledge and adopt two concepts. First, they must create the network as a businesswide system built on good design principles — not disparate, isolated concepts — that...

• Blog Six Aspects To Palo Alto’s Acquisition Of CloudGenix

  April 15, 2020 | Andre Kindness

  On March 31, Palo Alto Networks announced the intent to acquire CloudGenix, a software-defined WAN appliance vendor. This was another announcement in a long list from the security and networking...

• Report IoT Connectivity: Align The Wide Array Of Options With Your Requirements

  An Overview Of The Low-Power Wireless Technology Choices Augmenting Today's Networks

  February 26, 2020 | Andre Kindness, Michele Pelino

  Network-connected sensors and actuators improve business operations and transform products. But internet-of-things (IoT) requirements stretch traditional enterprise wireless technologies past their...

• Report Jump-Start Your Network Automation

  Four Random Automation Characteristics Fuel Networking Automation Adoption

  February 6, 2020 | Andre Kindness, Chris Gardner

  C-level professionals have accelerated their investments in automation to achieve greater business competitiveness. Inside infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams, automation has taken hold, from...

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  Webinar 5G Part Three: IoT, Edge Computing, And Network

  January 30, 2020 | Abhijit Sunil, Andre Kindness, Dan Bieler

  5G will heavily influence and be influenced by the advent of the internet of things (IoT), edge computing, and various networking technology advances. This webinar looks at what these trends are...

• Report SDWAN — More Than Just Cutting WAN Costs

  Definition, Benefits, And The Market Landscape For SDWAN

  December 2, 2019 | Andre Kindness, Abhijit Sunil

  A software-defined WAN (SDWAN) approach has pivoted past the technology inflection point and moved beyond PowerPoint slide decks touting lower WAN costs. It's become a key element in supporting the...

• Report Predictions 2020: Edge Computing

  New Form Factors, Partnership Strategies, And The Promise Of 5G Will Converge To Catapult Edge Toward Mainstream

  November 4, 2019 | Abhijit Sunil, Dan Bieler, Naveen Chhabra

  Edge computing has been among the most important trends associated with cloud computing and has enabled a multitude of use cases, beyond IoT and embedded systems, for infrastructure and operations...

• Report Predictions 2020: The Internet Of Things

  IoT Will Propel Smart Displays, 5G, Product Ransomware Attacks, Supply Chains, And New Business Models

  November 1, 2019 | Frank E. Gillett, Michele Pelino, Paul Miller

  This report shares Forrester's five 2020 predictions to help CIOs and their business counterparts tackle the rapidly changing internet-of-things (IoT) landscape to deliver and enable connected...

• Report A Timeline Guide For Your 5G Strategy

  5G Will Be A Long Journey, But Prepare Now — Because The Promise Is Huge

  October 28, 2019 | Dan Bieler, Andre Kindness, Michele Pelino

  The rollout of 5G is much more evolutionary than the rollout scenarios of previous cellular standards. The primary reason for the different pace relates to the gradual and piecemeal definition of...

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  Webinar 5G Part Two: Timelines And Current Landscape

  October 24, 2019 | Dan Bieler, Michele Pelino, Andre Kindness

  5G is more than a normal technology rollout project and will not arrive in one big bang. Rather, 5G will be introduced gradually — with the various involved players, such as the...

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  Webinar 5G Part One: Hype, Opportunities, And Challenges

  September 30, 2019 | Abhijit Sunil, Dan Bieler, Michele Pelino

  5G promises to usher in not just new use cases in every industry but also new business models. Many proposed use cases, such as those enabled by augmented/virtual reality and massive internet of...

• Report The Forrester New Wave™: Wireless Solutions, Q3 2019

  The Eight Solutions That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  August 15, 2019 | Andre Kindness

  In Forrester's evaluation of the emerging market for wireless solutions, we identified the eight most significant in the category — Aerohive, Aruba, Cambium Networks, Cisco Aironet, Cisco Meraki,...

• Report Nine Toxic Networking Vendor Selection Philosophies

  It's Time To Retire The Axiom "No One Gets Fired For Buying [X]"

  August 9, 2019 | Andre Kindness

  Many enterprise networking teams still struggle to shift away from their incumbent network infrastructure, even if it's the right decision for the company. This report addresses nine common myths...

• Report Don't Let The One-Percenters Drive Your Network Architecture

  Five Use Cases That Hamper Networking Automation Adoption

  August 9, 2019 | Andre Kindness

  Networking pros are getting sucked in by a warped set of requirements that do little to address some of the immediate data center needs they're facing. Vendors cite flashy use cases like hyperscale...

• Report Decode The New Networking Alphabet Soup

  Use Forrester's Networking Dictionary To Navigate Emerging Technologies

  June 6, 2019 | Andre Kindness

  Networking terms like software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), virtual network function (VNF), and service chaining have become a common vernacular among networking...

• Report Cut Through The Hype To Assess Your Need For 5G-Enabled IoT Use Cases

  How To Gauge The Readiness Of 5G And Its Impact On Your IoT Network Strategy

  May 16, 2019 | Michele Pelino, Andre Kindness

  The hype around 5G is at fever pitch, with network operators and device and equipment manufacturers making near-daily announcements regarding new deployment initiatives or highlighting potential 5G...

• Report Seven Shifts That Will Define The Next-Generation Networking Professional

  Macro Technology Trends Are Redefining The Role

  April 11, 2019 | Andre Kindness

  In the emerging software-driven world, the 30-year-old approach of managing the network by command-line interface has hit the end of the road. Many networking professionals wonder if software is...

• Report Assess The Pain-Gain Tradeoff Of Multicloud Strategies

  Learn The Difference Between Strategic Multicloud And Ineffective Complexity

  March 19, 2019 | Lauren E. Nelson, Andre Kindness, Naveen Chhabra

  Multicloud and hybrid cloud are equally useless terms, and yet, in reality, they define your obvious cloud strategy. Having multiple platforms, cloud and noncloud, allows for flexibility and...

• Report Create A Customer Engagement Network To Accelerate Your Digital Business

  Build A Customer-Centric Networking Infrastructure, Not A Technology-Focused Platform

  February 20, 2019 | Andre Kindness

  As infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders move to support digital initiatives, they'll come to the difficult realization that their current network infrastructure can't adequately support...

• Report What To Consider When Exploring Passive Optical LAN

  Make Accurate Comparisons With Traditional LANs When Building Your Next Network Design

  January 31, 2019 | Andre Kindness

  The impact of digitalization and smart offices has raised businesses' concerns about energy consumption around the globe. Some vendors are pitching passive optical LAN (POL) as a way to save up to...

• Report Scoring Our 2018 Cloud Predictions

  We Were Spot-On For Three, Early On Four, And Reaching On Three

  December 19, 2018 | Lauren E. Nelson, Dave Bartoletti, Charlie Dai

  Every year, Forrester predicts what lies ahead for cloud in the year to come. But have these predictions proven true over the past year for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals? This...

• Report Edge Computing Will Radically Alter Your Infrastructure Strategy

  December 5, 2018 | Chris Gardner, Andre Kindness

  Edge computing and internet of things (IoT) are transformational technologies, extending ubiquitous connectivity and control to the physical world. Only our imaginations limit applications built to...

• Report Emerging Technology Spotlight: Businesswide Networking Fabric

  Businesswide Networking Fabric Enriches Your Digital Business Value

  December 3, 2018 | Andre Kindness

  Businesswide networking fabrics have started to disrupt traditional networking service providers and vendors. Enterprises must understand what this disruptive technology is, when it will be mature,...