Lee Sustar
Principal Analyst
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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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Prognosen 2025: RAGs halten Einzug in die Cloud
2025 wird das KI-Angebot für die öffentliche Cloud weiter wachsen und reifen. Aber auch die private Cloud wird im kommenden Jahr aufgrund einer komplexen Branchendynamik florieren. Erfahren Sie mehr Details in unseren Prognosen 2025 zur Cloud.
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The 10 Most Important Cloud Trends For 2024
Curious about the top cloud trends in 2024? Learn three of the top 10 cloud trends for 2024 in this preview of a new report.
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AI, Platforms, And Big Promises: What We Saw At Red Hat Summit
IT platform teams are being pushed to deliver more and are eager for new solutions. Find out what solutions the 6,000 attendees at the Red Hat Summit in Denver got in early May in this review of the event.
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With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS?
AWS announced this week that Adam Selipsky will depart as CEO and Matt Garman, AWS senior VP of sales and marketing, would replace him in June. Find out what the implications of this move could be at a critical time for AWS and the broader cloud market overall.
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Can Your IT Operating Model Keep Up With Cloud?
Cloud has driven enterprise IT transformation with newfound speed and scale. But IT operating models haven’t always kept up. Learn how Forrester’s Cloud Operating Model Framework can help catch up.
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It Ain’t Just AI: What We Saw At Google Cloud Next
Google recently held its Google Cloud Next conference four months early to unveil new AI offerings and upstage its rivals. Get a detailed review of all of the announcements at the event in this post.
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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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Wasm Today, AI Tomorrow: KubeCon Expands Its Reach
GenAI, WebAssembly (Wasm), and cloud sustainability were big topics at KubeCon Europe 2024. Read our three key takeaways from the event as well as three recommended next steps in this review.
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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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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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Welcome To The Chip Wars, Microsoft
The move erodes lucrative business for the current main players. We break down what it means for tech buyers.
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Prognosen 2024: KI wird eine enorme Chance – aber auch eine Bedrohung – für große Cloud-Akteure sein
Die disruptive Kraft von KI wird 2024 den Cloud-Markt erschüttern. Erfahren Sie mehr in unseren Prognosen 2024 zum Cloud Computing.
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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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Prévisions 2024 : l’IA, croissance et menace pour les acteurs du Big Cloud
Les forces perturbatrices de l'IA vont secouer le marché du cloud computing en 2024. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos prévisions 2024 sur le cloud computing.
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Think AI Has Reshaped Cloud? Wait Until You See What’s Next.
Recently, I published The Future Of Cloud report and a corresponding blog post to talk about its future as abstracted, intelligent, and composable. Let’s take a closer look at the “intelligent” component and what it means amid the intense interest in generative AI today and long-term trends in cloud. Cloud is nearly always mentioned in […]
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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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Cloud Providers’ Focus On AI Hasn’t Paid Off … Yet
The advent of the AI cloud has the potential to shake up the market by allowing current leaders and new challengers to focus on higher-margin services. Learn how in this blog post.
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To Secure Kubernetes, Think Beyond Kubernetes
Kubernetes is the de facto standard for deploying and managing application workloads and containers. Lee has written quite a bit about the power of Kubernetes as an innovation platform, but while development and architecture teams are bullish on Kubernetes, security teams can find themselves scrambling to secure Kubernetes environments as they hurtle toward production. The […]
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Top Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Development And Infrastructure Platforms, Global, Q4 2022
The four-way hyperscaler horse for market share matters as the leading players continue to invest up and down the stack for new capabilities that set the pace for the industry. Those efforts are reflected in the results of The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Development And Infrastructure Platforms, Global, Q4 2022, in which custom silicon and […]
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