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Use of the public cloud is accelerating, supporting enterprise digital transformation efforts. Read our insights on how firms can leverage the power of the cloud while mitigating security vulnerabilities and other risks.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Biggest Cloud Trends For CISOs
Public cloud may be the major underpinning of enterprise infrastructure strategies, but it comes with risks. Learn the top three cloud trends that CISOs and security leaders need to be aware of in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit on December 9–11.
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Key Insights And Recommendations From VMware Explore 2024
Get six key takeaways from the annual VMware Explore 2024 conference and find out what they mean for technology leaders.
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HPE Seeks To Bolster Its Hybrid Cloud Management Capabilities And Credibility With Morpheus Acquisition
Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently announced an agreement to acquire Morpheus Data, a multicloud management solution. Find out what this means for the two firms and their customers in this blog.
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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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Learnings From The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024
At long last, The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization [CCMO] Solutions, Q3 2024 is published! This process is incredibly long and thorough. We go through hours-long briefings and customer calls and perform multiple iterations on scoring; the vendors go through the same. They put in many hours setting up customer references, product demonstrations, […]
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Sometimes Less Is More For Cloud-Powered Innovation: How Utilities And Telcos Are Rationalizing Their Clouds
Our latest report highlights how utilities and telcos, although relatively late to public cloud, are now eagerly pursuing its potential.
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The Benefits And Challenges Of Industry Clouds
What are industry clouds? What are their use cases, benefits, and drawbacks? Find out as VP and Principal Analyst Kate Leggett provides a detailed look at the latest trends in industry clouds.
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ERP Forrester Wave™ Evaluations For Product-Centric And Service-Centric Industries Now Live
Forrester recently completed two separate ERP wave reports, one focused on product-centric industries and the other on service-centric industries. Get a preview of some of our findings in this blog.
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