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Modernize Your Cloud Governance To Match Today’s Cloud Strategy
As the cloud landscape adapts to new changes, there is a renewed interest in cloud governance programs. But implementation of cloud governance may prove to be more difficult than expected. Find out why.
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Large Services Firms: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, But So Is Coming Together
The boundaries of IT service providers are in flux due to a variety of motivations, and too often, customers are left with more questions than answers. Read this blog to get four tips for managing service provider transitions.
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Your Cloud Strategy Is Now Your AI Strategy, Too
The AI cloud is on the rise. Learn the key considerations that cloud customers should have as they sort out which cloud offerings fit and which don’t fit with their AI workload requirements.
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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Application Modernization And Migration Services, Q1 2024
Learn who the six leaders are in Forrester's new Wave report on Application Modernization And Migration Services what they do to set themselves apart.
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AWS Joins Google Cloud In Removing Egress Costs
Learn two key steps your IT org should take in light of this announcement from AWS.
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Presenting The First Forrester Multicloud Container Platform Landscape For Asia Pacific
The cloud-native ecosystem, powered by the distributed Kubernetes backbone, is transforming everything in the cloud. Get a preview of Forrester's First Multicloud Container Platform Landscape For Asia Pacific here.
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Were Our 2023 Cloud Predictions Correct?
It's time to take a look back and score our 2023 cloud predictions. Find out where we accurately predicted cloud trends and where we missed the mark for cloud in 2023.
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Digital Sovereignty Is Changing The Cloud Market
Digital sovereignty offerings from cloud providers are getting more complicated. Get an overview of what's happening in the market and learn the benefits of defining digital sovereignty requirements early.
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Tech Trends To Watch In 2024
How will generative AI impact infrastructure plans? What regulatory issues will tech leaders have to grapple with? Hear Forrester’s technology analysts discuss their predictions for the latest tech trends in 2024.
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SAP Shares Reach Record High, As Company Restructures 8,000 Jobs And Lures Customers With Cloud ERP Migration Discounts
Existing SAP ECC customer or recent on-prem SAP S/4HANA customer? Take advantage of the new RISE migration discounts in 2024.
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AWS’s Silent Nod To FinOps
Last week, Amazon.com VP and CTO Werner Vogels closed out re:Invent 2023 with his keynote address on the “frugal architect.” This isn’t the first time that Vogels has introduced this topic. In fact, it was a theme he originally introduced in 2012 that revolves around architecting with cost in mind. To me, and likely to […]
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re:Invent 2023 — Is AWS In Unfamiliar Territory As A Follower?
At AWS re:Invent 2023 the AI announcements were underwhelming despite high expectations. Find out more in this extended review of the event.
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VMware Customers: Brace For Impact
With the VMware-Broadcom deal set for closing, what should you know? Learn five key things VMware customers can expect in the coming years.
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Predictions 2024: AI Will Boost Big Cloud Players — But Threaten Them, Too
The disruptive forces of AI will shake up the cloud market in 2024. Learn more in our 2024 cloud computing predictions.
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The Future Of Cloud
Recent, major shifts in the cloud space are prompting some technology leaders to review their cloud strategies. In this episode, Principal Analyst Lee Sustar provides his perspective on the future of cloud and how it may impact your technology roadmap.
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Hyperscalers, It’s Time To FOCUS
In late June, at FinOps X, the annual event hosted by FinOps Foundation, a big topic was the open source project FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS), which aims to standardize the billing construct and presentation of cloud cost data. This is a BIG DEAL. In doing so, FOCUS will remove the complexity and […]
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SAP To Raise On-Premise Annual Support Fees An Average Of 5% Effective January 2024
Continuing the latest trend in price increases by major enterprise software vendors, SAP announced on July 26, 2023, that it will increase the annual support fees for SAP support agreements by roughly 5.0% (by local CPI rates, capped to 5%). This is on top of the previous increase announced in 2022 for an average support […]
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Kubernetes: Innovation Enabler Or Implementation Detail?
The only thing more complex than running on Kubernetes is figuring out how to run containerized apps consistently across different environments without it. Find out more in this preview of our Technology & Innovation North America event.
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The Rise Of DIY In FinOps
One of the trends that emerged from FinOps X in San Diego is that DIY tooling is on the rise. Find out why Forrester typically tries to dissuade FinOps teams from taking this route.
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The Future Of Cloud: Abstracted, Intelligent, And Composable
It’s been a great decade and a half for the cloud. Every tech executive I speak with wants to know what’s next — and not just in the next couple of years but the next decade. In my latest report, The Future Of Cloud, I lay it all out. In a nutshell, cloud is destined […]
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