Forrester IT

APRIL 4, 2024

Over the years, my Forrester colleagues and I have observed that the maturity of enterprise architecture (EA) varies greatly among and within companies, industries, and geographies. Some EA practices are more IT-oriented, while others are more business-driven, but EA must always be outcome-driven and demonstrate its value.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 11, 2022

Last spring, a ransomware attack forced Colonial Pipeline to shut down. The weeklong recovery disrupted retail gas delivery throughout the Southeastern US. The Colonial Pipeline composes only a fraction of the more than 230,000 miles of pipeline across the US carrying hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide.

Transportation 74

Transportation Industry Retail Security 74

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

To succeed, Operational AI requires a modern data architecture. These advanced architectures offer the flexibility and visibility needed to simplify data access across the organization, break down silos, and make data more understandable and actionable.

Architecture 128

Architecture Data Enterprise Enterprise 128

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. Training a single AI model emits as much as five average cars over their lifetimes.

Architecture 122

Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Energy 122

Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The architecture aims to optimize deployment speed, performance, resiliency, cost, energy efficiency and scalability for current- and future-generation data centers. New data centers are built for accelerated computing and generative AI with architectures that are significantly more complex than those for general-purpose computing.

Architecture 121

Architecture Data Center Energy Data 121

Forrester IT

MAY 17, 2022

More and more enterprises are opting for industry CRM solutions over its horizontal counterpart. These new solutions offer a vehicle for closer, more intentional relationships with the vendor's partners. This blog explores the top four benefits, as heard from the CRM vendors we spoke with.

Industry 195

Industry Enterprise Enterprise Vendor Management 195

Forrester IT

MARCH 15, 2021

With the recent announcement that Dapr has reached its first production-ready release, we finally see a viable response to Istio and perhaps the rest of the service mesh industry from Microsoft. If you’re not familiar, Dapr is a coding framework intended to solve the challenges of modern distributed applications.

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Applications Microsoft Industry Architecture 546

Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 2, 2024

These advancements promise to increase accuracy and reduce costs, particularly in regulated industries like financial services, insurance, and life sciences. By 2025, generative AI will drive significant business value, focusing on practical, less glamorous use cases like document processing, intelligent automation, and AI agents.

Industry 162

Industry Insurance Financial Security 162

Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

This is obvious enough in industries where technology is fundamentally changing the customer experience. Technology is critical to an organization’s success.

Government 446

Government Industry Architecture Strategy 446

Forrester IT

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Photo by Abhinav Sunil Forrester’s state of IT sustainability 2023 survey and report highlighted the growing importance decarbonizing IT and the reducing the environmental impact of IT in various industries. The demand […]

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Survey Financial Industry Report 417

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

There, it will showcase a variety of innovative products and solutions at the exhibition under the theme “Accelerate Industrial Digitalization and Intelligence”. From October 14 to 18, Huawei will participate in the GITEX Global 2024, one of the world’s largest technology exhibitions, as a Diamond Sponsor.

Industry 111

Industry Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 111

Forrester IT

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It is this time of year where I usually like to try and make seasonal specialties from other parts of the world. I’ve been exchanging recipes with my colleague George Lawrie. I’m not sure how anyone can really eat the mince pies he tells me are delicious. But we’ve noticed just how hard it is […]

Industry 243

Industry Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 243

Forrester IT

JULY 12, 2021

The Space Tech Industry Is Looking Up The new space race is truly underway following Richard Branson’s monumental first passenger trip to space, beating Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin passenger flight by more than a week. It did, however, […].

Industry 488

Industry Architecture Trends Strategy 488

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With over two decades in technology and leadership roles, Sewell, whose identity has been anonymized for this article, was confident her skills and experiences would transfer but felt that her resume might not stand out for industries outside the public sector.

Industry 122

Industry How To Real Estate Government 122

Forrester IT

MAY 22, 2023

A blog from Amazon has been buzzing in the IT industry: A monolithic architecture produced superior performance to a serverless microservices approach. It reduced infrastructure cost by over 90% and increased scaling capabilities. In response, polemics abound denouncing microservices. So are microservices dead?

Architecture 195

Architecture Industry Strategy Enterprise 195

Forrester IT

AUGUST 3, 2022

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. Cloud carbon footprint calculation and optimization is a critical part of an organization’s overall sustainability strategy.

Architecture 195

Architecture Cloud Strategy Industry 195

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Generally speaking, a healthy application and data architecture is at the heart of successful modernisation. This benefits customers in several ways: the partnership between the two tech giants means considerable industrial know-how and technical capabilities can be combined to get their modernization on track strategically – and quickly.

Industry 122

Industry IBM Applications Banking 122

Forrester IT

JANUARY 27, 2022

It didn’t take long into my tenure with Forrester to realize that there was confusion in the industry regarding AIOps. Both technology vendors and industry companies openly asked me what the term meant, because they are hearing many variations. I touched on this in my “meet your new analyst” blog. They gave me examples of […].

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Meeting Industry Examples Company 365

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

While warp speed is a fictional concept, it’s an apt way to describe what generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) are doing to exponentially accelerate Industry 4.0. I am fascinated and passionate about helping manufacturers leverage Gen AI-fueled edge deployments that break through legacy Industry 4.0

Industry 142

Industry Dell Data Artificial Intelligence 142

Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As I worked to develop guidance around AIOps, I soon found that other commonly used terms were equally confusing to people in our industry. How is it that an industry with so many highly educated professionals can have so many problems with words? The latest IT linguistics conundrum is “observability.”

Education 361

Education Industry Development Architecture 361

TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Join this webinar to understand the move to 5GC and assess its impact on the telecoms industry and its customers. What 5G core means to current operational architectures and the early adopters. You will explore: The impact of standalone 5G and network slicing on CSPs' businesses.

B2C 235

B2C B2B Transportation Agile 235

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The restaurant industry has increasingly become a target for cyberattacks as digital payment systems, loyalty programs, and online ordering become more prevalent. In recent years, several high-profile breaches have raised concerns about the security of customer data.

Industry 102

Industry Authentication Security Data 102

Forrester IT

JULY 29, 2019

5G Presents Immense Innovation Potential 5G promises to usher in not just new use cases in every industry but also new business models. Some of the most relevant use cases across industries, such as those enabled by AR/VR and massive IoT, fit right into improving customer experience and digital transformation.

Industry 338

Industry Telecommunications Architecture Enterprise 338

Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Considering several unanticipated economic challenges across industries, these scores indicate continued progress and opportunities in the green market revolution. This year, one of our five predictions received an A score, three received a B score, and one received a C score.

Industry 379

Industry Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 379

Forrester IT

JANUARY 13, 2022

It addressed lots of the core questions our industry had about this new thing called AIOps. The 2019 publication, Take the Mystery Out of AI For IT Operations (AIOPs) was a widely read Forrester report. It also went on to provide an approach for achieving the 2019 goal of AIOps. Like all new concepts, we […].

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Industry Report Analysis Architecture 366

Forrester IT

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The extensive industry activity and commotion about digital transformation — mobile, IoT, machine learning, cloud, APIs, microservices, and on and on — is all well and good, but while everyone is happily going along with the next new and way cool digital thing, most are making a big mistake.

Mobile 351

Mobile Industry Cloud Architecture 351

Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

The MI325X uses AMD’s CDNA 3 architecture, which the MI300X also uses. CDNA 3 is based on the gaming graphics card RDNA architecture but is expressly designed for use in data center applications like generative AI and high-performance computing.

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Data Center Data Architecture Dell 186

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Whether it’s a financial services firm looking to build a personalized virtual assistant or an insurance company in need of ML models capable of identifying potential fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) is primed to transform nearly every industry. Another challenge here stems from the existing architecture within these organizations.

Enterprise 139

Enterprise Enterprise Architecture Survey 139

Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Even as demand for data infrastructure surges to an all-time high, Equinix is planning to lay off 3% of its workforce, suggesting a growing skills mismatch in the industry. Skills in architecture are also in high demand, as power-hungry AI systems require rethinking of data center design. billion this year , up around 7% over 2023.

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Data Center Data Training Enterprise 154

TM Forum

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As industries and companies seek to transform themselves to be more efficient and drive new growth, value driven transformation will help ensure hard lines are in the right places, protecting the things that the business needs to preserve and innovating where the best return on investment can be achieved. Introduction & benefits.

Architecture 182

Architecture Strategy Enterprise Enterprise 182

Forrester IT

AUGUST 19, 2020

The high-tech and telecommunications industries are under increased scrutiny for their impact on the environment. The fact is that technology is often ecologically abusive in its manufacture, operation, and afterlife.

Telecommunications 317

Telecommunications Industry Data Center Energy 317

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Generally speaking, a healthy application and data architecture is at the heart of successful modernisation. This benefits customers in several ways: the partnership between the two tech giants means considerable industrial know-how and technical capabilities can be combined to get their modernization on track strategically and quickly.

Industry 84

Industry IBM Applications Banking 84

Forrester IT

MARCH 22, 2017

The entire G Suite application portfolio, which includes Google Drive, is now under the G Cloud line of business, an enterprise-focused team under the leadership of industry veteran (and Alphabet board member), Diane Green. I attended sessions and spoke one-on-one with a few of the key product experts behind Google Drive.

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Google Enterprise Enterprise Conference 383

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.

Network 183

Network Research Security Data Center 183

Forrester IT

APRIL 17, 2024

For this reason, along with new and developing industry regulations, growing sovereignty requirements, and a plethora of breaches/vulnerabilities, companies are revisiting or standing up governance programs that have not existed in […] The types of workloads you’re migrating are trending increasingly mission-critical.

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Government Cloud Strategy Trends 273