Forrester IT

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.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 26, 2022

To properly support delivery of these and remain competitive, CSPs need to provide simple but high-performance connectivity for optimal latency and throughput across mobile, IP transport and cloud/MEC technologies. This could be highly beneficial when network integration for applications can be done by SRv6 MUP with no 5G core modification.

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Network World

JUNE 10, 2024

Fortinet has reached an agreement to buy cloud security company Lacework for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2015, Lacework is known for its cloud-based machine learning, AI and automation technology that lets customers manage and secure cloud workflows.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

To fully benefit from AI, organizations must take bold steps to accelerate the time to value for these applications. Just as DevOps has become an effective model for organizing application teams, a similar approach can be applied here through machine learning operations, or “MLOps,” which automates machine learning workflows and deployments.

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Network World

OCTOBER 1, 2024

IBM is offering expanded access to Nvidia GPUs on IBM Cloud to help enterprise customers advance their AI implementations, including large language model (LLM) training. IBM Cloud users can now access Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU instances in virtual private cloud and managed Red Hat OpenShift environments.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Today Hyland Software, best known for its OnBase and Perceptive content management portfolios, announced it will acquire Alfresco Software. Both vendors were named as “Leaders” in The Forrester Wave™: ECM Content Platforms, Q3 2019 (subscription req’d). This is a natural next step in Hyland’s recent rejuvenation strategy.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Google Cloud has rolled out a new service that will let enterprise customers set traffic priorities and control bandwidth for cloud-based workloads. Cross-Cloud Interconnect supports 10Gbps or 100Gbps dedicated, encrypted links to connect Google virtual private cloud (VPC), other VPCs, or virtual networks in different clouds.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 12, 2020

To make your architecture and design patterns stronger, separate the two. Stop Conflating Microservices With APIs Too often in client conversations, Forrester hears the terms “microservice” and “API” used interchangeably. Draw a hard line of distinction between them, specifically: “Microservice” is a packaging and deployment concept.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 4, 2021

Hyland announced on March 4 that it intends to acquire content platform provider Nuxeo. The deal is expected to close in April or May. Coming on the heels of its acquisition of Alfresco, which we blogged about here, just months ago, Hyland will soon be the home for the two most widely deployed open source […].

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 7, 2021

As CIOs move into the cloud, they should take direction from Amazon Image Credit: Chris Potter. As CIOs are busy creating projects to more and more of their IT infrastructure into the cloud, they are always looking to other firms in order to get direction on what the best way to go about doing this is. What All Of This Means For You.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

New research from IBM finds that enterprises are further along in deploying AI applications on the big iron than might be expected: 78% of IT executives surveyed said their organizations are either piloting projects or operationalizing initiatives that incorporate AI technology.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 22, 2017

Several Forrester colleagues and I attended the Google Next conference earlier this month, an event showcasing the Google Cloud Platform portfolio. Google Drive has been a popular offering in the cloud enterprise file sync and share market, and we evaluated it as a Leader in our 2016 Forrester Wave (subscription required).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In an era marked by heightened environmental, social and governance (ESG) scrutiny and rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, the integration of actionable sustainable principles in enterprise architecture (EA) is indispensable. For those working within or alongside EA, these concepts are well-established pillars of the discipline.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 13, 2021

With rising interest in service meshes, many application development and delivery pros’ first encounter with one leaves them wondering how they differ from API gateways. Are service meshes their own product category? Or are they part of broader API management?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As organizations globally discover new opportunities created by AI, many are investing significantly in GenAI, including as part of their cloud modernization efforts. Many legacy applications were not designed for flexibility and scalability. In this context, GenAI can be used to speed up release times.

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Forrester IT

MAY 7, 2021

Kubernetes has made a huge impact on how businesses deploy applications, and how they adopt cloud. This year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 21 agenda was very broad, touching almost every aspect of both developer and operations journeys.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

The research, released this week, analyzes the networking challenges, IT and business priorities, architectural maturity, and investment strategies of 2,052 IT professionals across 10 global industries. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft is describing AI agents as the new applications for an AI-powered world. This data would be utilized for different types of application testing. The output of the system should be able to stress the end user application by producing different-sized test files.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 15, 2023

Application development trends can be as ephemeral as serverless architecture. Our research demonstrates that cloud decision-makers consider FaaS adoption by their development teams to be among their top priorities for the next 12 months.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2024

But the majority of companies in Germany, in particular, rely on the cloud in its various facets, and have now achieved a certain level of maturity when it comes to migrating workloads. The topics of process automation and the availability and flexibility of applications are particularly important to those responsible for IT and business.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 15, 2022

Tell Us About Yourself I’m a native New Orleanian passionate about old-world architecture, gaming, and weight lifting. I love to travel with family, and I keep in touch with the same friends I’ve had since middle school and college. I was always interested in computers and fascinated by the magic of software and games. Still, […].

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Every time we come up with new ways to build and deploy applications, we also come up with new ways to break them. Ready to join the cloud? Did SQL make it easier to access and manipulate large amounts of structured data? You bet, and it also led to SQL injection. Hope you didn’t put […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

For CIOs, the event serves as a stark reminder of the inherent risks associated with over-reliance on a single vendor, particularly in the cloud. The incident, which saw IT systems crashing and displaying the infamous “ blue screen of death (BSOD) ,” exposed the vulnerabilities of heavily cloud-dependent infrastructures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

If you’re stressing over cloud cost increases, you’re not alone. Three out of every five organizations saw cloud spending increase in the past year, with nearly four in 10 who experienced price hikes saying their costs jumped by more than 25% — this according to a recent survey of IT professionals commissioned by cloud provider Civo.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Secure access service edge ( SASE ) is a network architecture that rolls SD-WAN and security into a single, centrally managed cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved security, and better performance.

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Forrester IT

JULY 14, 2021

Greetings everyone! Each month, the infrastructure and operations (I&O) team writes incredible research. As a research director, I get to not only see the final outcome but also all of the work and client insights that went into its creation. For those who know me, I am quick to call these out via inquiry calls […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 3, 2022

Cloud carbon footprint calculation and optimization is a critical part of an organization’s overall sustainability strategy. Forrester’s technology sustainability framework highlights the importance of addressing cloud and technology architecture for reducing the overall scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions in any industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2024

As enterprises increasingly embrace serverless computing to build event-driven, scalable applications, the need for robust architectural patterns and operational best practices has become paramount. Enterprises and SMEs, all share a common objective for their cloud infra – reduced operational workloads and achieve greater scalability.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. In today’s digital age, cybersecurity is no longer an option but a necessity.

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

are aimed at helping customers more easily manage edge devices, applications, and infrastructure across multiple locations, and industry watchers say the updated platform will support AI at the edge. Edge computing continues to be an important aspect of infrastructure design to offset limitations in public cloud deployments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Today, many organizations are embracing the power of the public cloud by shifting their workloads to them. A recent study shows that 98% of IT leaders 1 have adopted a public cloud infrastructure. It is estimated by the end of 2023, 31% of organizations expect to run 75% of their workloads 2 in the cloud. 8 Complexity.

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