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1 week ago | 
forrester.com | Devin Dickerson |Christopher Condo |David Mooter
Google Cloud Next 2025’s (full takeaway blog here) developer keynote offered a detailed look at the company’s latest AI innovations, with a particular focus on agent technology and developer tools.
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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Cheryl McKinnon |Diego Giudice |Devin Dickerson
The Forrester Wave: Content Platforms, Q1 2025 is now live! We looked at 12 key vendors and evaluated them on 24 criteria. Four Leaders emerged, followed by five Strong Performers and three Contenders. To learn more about these vendors and how they serve their target markets, see the full report.
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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Srividya Sridharan |Diego Giudice |Devin Dickerson
DeepSeek’s open-source model, DeepThink (RI) by a little known company in China sent shock waves across the technology world. It’s amazing. Yes, it does excel at benchmarks comparable to other state-of-the-art models. Yes, it’s partially open source. Yes, the DeepSeek app explains its reasoning by default. But there are far-reaching implications to this important AI development.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
forrester.com | Jeffrey Rajamani |Paul Miller |Devin Dickerson
As we move into 2025 Europe continues to be exposed to dramatic changes with trade slowing and geopolitics fracturing the region – all this while technological change is accelerating. Meanwhile several key industries, like automotive for example, are undergoing their own structural changes further increasing volatile dynamics.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
forrester.com | Devin Dickerson |Kelsey Chickering |Christina Schmitt
Preventing waste and abuse has long eclipsed innovation as a focus for the US government. Despite this, innovation is still happening. In fact, the US government doesn’t have an innovation problem: it has an adoption problem. The theory of constraints tells us that aiming our efforts anywhere except the source of a bottleneck is unlikely to deliver value.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Carlos Casanova |Devin Dickerson |Andrew Cornwall |Andrew Hewitt
Development has reached new speeds thanks to the twin accelerators of DevOps and agile methodologies. Now the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to boost IT operations (ITOps) even more. AIOps, or AI for IT operations, is not just a buzzword; it is an innovation that provides real-time insights, contextualization, and proactive capabilities essential for the success of DevOps and agile practices.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Sam Higgins |Devin Dickerson |Carlos Rivera |Dan Bieler
“Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording.” General Omar Bradley, the second administrator of the US Department of Veterans Affairs, 1947. One of the core principles of High-Performance IT (HPIT) is alignment. But what we are aligning to differs greatly between the public and private sectors.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
cdotrends.com | Devin Dickerson
For a time, it appeared that the reach of serverless platforms had exceeded their grasp. After some notable success stories like the high-profile “serverless-first” Capital One strategy, hype appeared to be dying down. This is partly because serverless has always struggled with unclean definitions. Despite the lack of infrastructure and application servers to wrangle with, developers still needed to have some understanding of operating within a cloud-native platform.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Tracy Woo |Devin Dickerson
On August 15, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its intent to acquire Morpheus Data, a multicloud management solution “to make HPE GreenLake cloud the de facto platform for innovating IT.” The deal is expected to close early FY2024 Q4 of its fiscal year. Morpheus follows a string of HP acquisitions in recent years (OpsRamp (2023), Ampool (2021), and Zerto (2021)) meant to aggressively strengthen GreenLake’s software portfolio. Why Morpheus? For HPE, this news is unsurprising.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Tracy Woo |Devin Dickerson |Sandy Carielli
Forrester’s top ten cloud trends for 2024 report is out. No one will be surprised that AI figures prominently. Yet there are other fundamental shifts in play — the rise of the intelligent edge, increased cloud compliance complexity, and (finally!) mature multicloud networking offerings. Tracking these trends was a collective effort with all of my colleagues that cover cloud. Together we curated a list of the most important cloud topics that technology decision makers should be aware of.
