Alvin Nguyen

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Schneider Electric Data Center Summit 2025: AI, Power, Cooling, Services, And More

Alvin Nguyen 3 days ago
Schneider Electric’s 2025 industry summit focused on data centers and exhibited presentations covering a variety of data center topics, along with a tour of its manufacturing facilities showcasing the company’s production and testing expertise, as well as the following in-depth topics and session: The data center landscape How the rapid growth of generative AI has […]
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Navigate The Evolving Landscape Of AI Technical Services

Alvin Nguyen April 9, 2025
Understand the significance of AI technical services in scaling and optimizing AI implementations across business capabilities.
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Intel Vision 2025 Event: An Iconic American Semiconductor Tech Titan

Alvin Nguyen April 4, 2025
After the announcement of Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan and the decision to keep both Products and Foundry businesses, Forrester went to Intel Vision 2025 looking for more details about the company’s turnaround plan.
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Microgrids And Data Centers: A Sustainable Power Duo

Alvin Nguyen March 17, 2025
Tech leaders are under more pressure to improve energy efficiency. Discover how microgrids are revolutionizing data centers to meet AI’s growing demands and sustainability goals.
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Siemens Data Center Analyst Event Touches On A Variety Of Topics

Alvin Nguyen March 14, 2025
Curious about Siemens' latest data center strategy? Get some key highlights from the recent Siemens analyst event.
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Key Questions For Tackling Technical Debt

Linda Ivy-Rosser March 10, 2025
Technology leaders are more focused on technical debt today to ensure that they can fully leverage tomorrow’s emerging tech. Find out the questions that you should be asking to manage the technical debt in your organization.
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DeepSeek Is Resetting The Bar For AI Infrastructure

Alvin Nguyen February 11, 2025
The infrastructure needed for inferencing with DeepSeek's R1 open-source AI model is far less than what its competitors use. Learn six ways this could benefit your organization's AI plans.
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Supercharge The IT Circular Economy With The CARFAX Approach

Alvin Nguyen January 31, 2025
The Challenge With The Circular Economy In 2025, Forrester predicted that more than a third of Global Fortune 100 firms will commit to circular economy goals. We recommended that, this year, enterprise leaders perform infrastructure lifecycle assessments to understand the environmental impact of their choices. Further for manufacturing, Forrester’s report, Embrace The Circular Economy To […]
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What We Saw At AWS re:Invent 2024

Lee Sustar December 12, 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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Abrupt Resignation Of CEO Pat Gelsinger Raises Alarms About Intel

Alvin Nguyen December 3, 2024
The announcement and abrupt nature of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s retirement leaves many questions. Find out what this could mean for Intel’s turnaround plan and the semiconductor market overall.
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AMD Acquisitions Focus On Strengthening AI

Alvin Nguyen August 28, 2024
AMD's recent and planned acquisitions sets the firm up to better compete with NVIDIA in a few different areas. Learn how in this post.
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Open Source Doesn’t Mean A Trademark Free-For-All

Andrew Cornwall August 12, 2024
Open-source licenses give you rights to copy, and in some cases, they define patent rights and responsibilities, but when they mention trademarks at all, most of them exclude rights rather than include them.
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Intel Bets On AI Everywhere And Demand For Smaller, Targeted LLMs

Alvin Nguyen April 11, 2024
Tech leaders are rethinking their strategic partnerships, because silicon matters again. That's why so much attention was paid to this year's Intel Vision conference. Get our key takeaways from the event including three intriguing Intel product announcements.
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NVIDIA’s GTC 2024: A Leap Into GenAI

Charlie Dai March 20, 2024
Chipmaker NVIDIA announced some compelling new products and breakthroughs in AI infrastructure at its 2024 GPU Technology Conference. Get the details in this comprehensive review of the event.
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Your New Data Center Services, Infrastructure Outsourcing, And Semiconductor Analyst

Alvin Nguyen February 23, 2024
Learn which Forrester analyst now covers data center services, infrastructure outsourcing, and semiconductors.
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Embarking On New Research: From Technical Architects To MTO, Platforms, EAM, And Technical Debt

Alvin Nguyen October 26, 2023
I am happy to announce that I have completed my series of reports about the technical architect, including the expectations for this role, how to help technical architects succeed, and the trends that impact them: Evolve Your Technical Architects For Modern IT First 90 Days: Technical Architect Role Profile: Technical Architect Although the initial research […]
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Restricted Source Licensing Is Here

Naveen Chhabra September 7, 2023
Open source has taken the enterprise by storm. What was once seen as risky code, developed in suburban basements, has taken on new life. Major software companies employ teams of full-time workers to write and contribute code to open source projects. Even end user companies such as Netflix, Lyft, Capital One, etc., are contributing back […]
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Forrester’s Impressions: VMware Explore 2023

Naveen Chhabra September 6, 2023
In recent years, VMware has faced major headwinds: It migrated its clients from on-premises to public cloud, changed to a cloud-native application development paradigm, shifted to subscription licensing, had frequent cycles of M&A activities, and experienced unfavorable macroeconomic environments. Despite these, VMware registered modest revenue growth. Even though it grew, it knows it is vulnerable. […]
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Dear Technical Architects, It’s Time To Sink Or Swim

Alvin Nguyen July 11, 2023
Technical architects are being called on to keep up with the demands of a fast-paced, ever-changing modern IT industry. Here’s what they need to do.
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Guide Your Compute Architecture Investment Decisions With The Forrester Tech Tide

Tracy Woo June 22, 2023
Compute architectures are fast evolving to serve changing business scenarios and needs. We frequently hear the difficulties that you face as options emerge. The difficulties are rooted in deciding whether to use commodity or fit-for-purpose compute architectures, whether for generative AI, data-intensive applications, or edge deployments. This also ties closely to the central role that […]
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