Tracy Woo

2 months ago | forrester.com | Jinan Budge |Jess Burn |Paul McKay |Tracy Woo

We are thrilled to announce our research, Deconstructing Human-Element Breaches, detailing the many and varied risks posed by and to humans — a problem that has plagued cybersecurity teams for decades. Forrester clients can use this research as a catalyst for productive conversations with executives and peers across functions about controls to mitigate the human element breach types most common to their organizations and industries.

2 months ago | forrester.com | Naveen Chhabra |Tracy Woo

As an infrastructure professional and analyst, I have experienced firsthand several times how tech buyers envision partnerships with their tech providers. Our blog from 2020, One Hand To Shake Beats One Throat To Choke, explains how to envision and nurture the relationship. While tech buyers regard VMware as one of the biggest partners, not all vendors and clients think similarly, and that’s OK.

Jan 23, 2025 | forrester.com | Naveen Chhabra |Tracy Woo |Diego Giudice

It’s been some time since Forrester has written about this market, and a lot has changed. Automation is the cornerstone of speed and operational efficiency. With the increasing complexity in IT ecosystems, business applications, and data, the demand for smarter automation is greater than ever. Batch automation and workload automation are certainly not new concepts (they date back to the early days of the mainframe), but they are undergoing a renaissance as organizations optimize their processes.

Jan 22, 2025 | forrester.com | Tracy Woo |Heidi Shey |Emily Pfeiffer

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 (and does not account for NetApp’s CloudCheckr acquisition that followed shortly). Both Spot and CloudCheckr are included in the Flexera deal which is expected to close in March 2025. From a FinOps lens, news of the acquisition is surprising. As recently as mid-2024, NetApp had hinted at a forthcoming Spot/CloudCheckr offering.

Oct 1, 2024 | forrester.com | Naveen Chhabra |Tracy Woo

Commvault announced that it is acquiring Clumio for $47 million on September 24. On its surface, the acquisition doesn’t bring a significant number of customers, and it doesn’t expand Commvault’s overall data protection coverage significantly. So what does this acquisition mean to one of the leaders in the enterprise data resilience market?