Informal Buyers Of IaaS Cloud Computing Are Driving The Market, Not Formal IT...
Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is a hot market. Amazon Web Services, now five years old, drives a lot of attention and customer volume, but the vendor strategists at enterprise-facing...
View ArticleSilk Browser, The BIG Leap For Amazon’s Fire, Shows Innovative Use Of App...
My colleague James Staten recently wrote about AutoDesk Cloud as an exemplar of the move toward App Internet, the concept of implementing applications that are distributed between local and cloud...
View ArticleAmazon Targets Enterprise IT In Las Vegas: Insights & Observations From...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) held its first global customer and partner conference, re:Invent, in late November in Las Vegas, attracting approximately 6,000 attendees. While aimed squarely at developers,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Leads The China Cloud War Into Episode II
Microsoft is officially launching the commercial operations of its cloud offerings in China today. It's been only nine months since Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, made the announcement in...
View ArticleMicrosoft And Dell Change The Private/Hybrid Cloud Game With On-Premise Azure
What was announced?On October 20 at TechEd, Microsoft quietly slipped in what looks like a potential game-changing announcement in the private/hybrid cloud world when they rolled out Microsoft Cloud...
View ArticleMSFT Expands Azure To Australia, Calls Out (Some) Competitors
On Monday Microsoft officially announced the launch of two Azure Data Centers in Australia. This is big news for the many Australia-based organizations concerned about data sovereignty, as well as...
View ArticleEpisode Three Of The China Cloud War: The Rise Of AWS And Azure’s Critical...
The cloud market in China is changing fast. The official launch of the commercial operations of Microsoft Azure (Azure) earlier this year started a new chapter (as detailed in my March blog post),...
View ArticleForrester Quick Take: AWS QuickSight Will Disrupt Business Intelligence And...
Get ready for AWS business intelligence (BI): it's real and it packs a punch!Today's BI market is like a perpetual motion machine -- an unstoppable engine that never seems to run out of steam....
View ArticleAmazon Web Services Pushes Enterprise And Hybrid Messages At re:Invent
The hordes gathered in Las Vegas this week, for Amazon's latest re:Invent show. Over 18,000 individuals queued to get into sessions, jostled to reach the Oreo Cookie Popcorn (yes, really), and dodged...
View ArticleWill the answer to public cloud be Google?
Amazon Web Services is rapidly growingSince I joined Forrester 2 months ago, we have seen multiple announcements from public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS) numbers are now available. As...
View ArticleDriving Systems of Records to the Cloud, your focus for 2016!
Success in the Cloud is now a factYou have all heard the success stories of Uber and Airbnb as they leverage technology to disrupt existing business norms in the taxi and hotel businesses. Digital...
View ArticleAre providers adapting to managed services for the megaclouds in 2016?
"Enterprise-Cloud", reality or marketing term?First we need to define what we mean by "enterprise cloud". For this definition, the minimal criteria set includes: robust security, reliable performance,...
View ArticleIs Security FUD delaying your Public Cloud Adoption?
Public Cloud continues to emerge Whether it's the growth of service providers transitioning to offer services, the emergence of Containers within Hyperconverged solutions, or the potential emergence of...
View ArticleAzure Stack Preview – Microsoft-s End-Game for On-Premise IT?
What's Happening?In 2014 I wrote about Microsoft and Dell's joint Cloud Platform System offering, Microsoft's initial foray into an "Azure-Like" experience in the enterprise data center. While not a...
View ArticleToday Is Cyber Monday; It’s A Great Time To Book Your Next Vacation
During the Black Friday and Cyber Monday week, travel specials tend to get lost in the flurry of deals on smart speakers, tablets, and HD TVs. Over the past few years, the travel industry has quietly...
View ArticleExperience Points: Level Up With Experience Level Agreements
We habitually use metrics, even when they are not relevant. Our instincts are based on deeply ingrained responses to situations and inherent investment biases (time and cost). This annoys many a modern...
View ArticleLIFT Your Emerging Tech Efforts To The Next Level — Part 2
The Forrester Analytics Global Business Technographics® Priorities And Journey Survey, 2018, shows that customer-obsessed firms currently have a 93% customer satisfaction rate — far above the 65%...
View ArticleVideo: 2019 Research Themes (And A Few Resolutions)
Like most people, I consider November a good time to start thinking about the clean slate that a new year brings. There is lots of room to reflect on one year and get ready for the next one with a bit...
View ArticleAdvanced Analytics Is Required To Win, Serve, And Retain Healthcare Customers
There is an imminent market need to understand which analytics vendors truly help healthcare organizations (HCOs) make sense of their growing data assets and turn them into customer-level insights....
View ArticleInsights To Action — For Real This Time
You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a sequel — a “Part Deux,” so to speak. But in fact, this is Forrester’s inaugural Data Strategy & Insights event. So why “this time”? Because, frankly, you’ve...
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