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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.
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Once More Unto The Breach: Tech Leaders Face Another Year Of Volatility And Cuts
In today’s era of volatility, technology leaders will need to do more with even less. This means dusting off the cost-cutting playbook to seek out additional optimization opportunities without sacrificing your AI ambitions. Here are a few cost-cutting measures to focus on in the near term.
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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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Call For Entries: The 2025 Enterprise Architecture Awards
Forrester is thrilled to announce the opening of nominations for the 2025 global Enterprise Architecture Awards. Learn more about this year’s awards and how to apply here.
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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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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Application Modernization And Multicloud Managed Services, Q1 2025
Application modernization remains a critical priority for enterprises as they continue their journey to the cloud and beyond. While the “lift and shift” era of cloud migration has ended, the modernization journey continues.
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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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The Return Of Infrastructure: Building An AI Base
How important are your tech infrastructure decisions in the age of AI? Principal Analysts Michele Pelino and Naveen Chhabra review some of the latest tech infrastructure trends and predictions tech leaders should know as they build out their AI strategies.
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DeepSeek Unleashes Smaller-Footprint Models That Can Transform AIOps From Cloud To Edge
Exciting developments such as DeepSeek’s R1 announcement are extending opportunities to run large language models on edge devices. These advancements could have profound implications for edge computing, particularly in the realms of AIOps and observability. By enabling real-time insights and faster automations at the edge, enterprises can enhance their operational posture, drive down costs, and improve operational efficiency and resilience.
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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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What We Saw At AWS re:Invent 2024
AWS may have been caught off guard by the sudden rise of generative AI, but now it’s coming for the competition from every possible angle. Get our key takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024.
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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.
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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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Unleashing The First Forrester Wave™ For Vector Databases
Forrester has just released its inaugural evaluation, The Forrester Wave™: Vector Databases, Q3 2024, marking a significant milestone in this rapidly evolving category.
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Commvault Snaps Up Clumio For Cloud Resilience
Commvault announced that it is acquiring Clumio for $47 million on September 24. What does this acquisition mean to one of the leaders in the enterprise data resilience market?
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IBM Vies For Positioning As The De Facto FinOps Solution
On Tuesday, IBM announced its acquisition of Kubernetes cost management solution Kubecost. This acquisition follows a series of FinOps-focused companies in recent years with Apptio (TBM/FinOps), Turbonomic (FinOps/resource automation), Nordcloud (FinOps services), and Instana (observability). Answers To Your Top Questions About The Kubecost Acquistion What should I know? Kubecost enhances an already market-leading solution. In […]
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