Tracy Woo

2 weeks ago | forrester.com | Tracy Woo

The US government is no stranger to cloud. In fact, the federal government was among the first adopters of public cloud going back to the first federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, who mandated a cloud-first approach to IT as part of the 2012 budget process. Although his motivation to adopt cloud was instrumental in transforming government IT, Kundra mistakenly assumed that it would save billions of dollars.

2 weeks ago | forrester.com | Tracy Woo

We just spent an amazing two days at FinOps X, the annual conference hosted by the FinOps Foundation. This year’s conference was the largest at 2,000 attendees, a 20% increase from 2024. Some of the biggest enterprises were in attendance: American Express, Electronic Arts, John Deere, Koch Industries, Lockheed Martin, Meta, MGM Resorts, PepsiCo, and Starbucks, along with the major cloud providers AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Jan 28, 2025 | 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.

Jan 27, 2025 | 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.