Will 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 Article[Poll] Are you currently leveraging public cloud for production workloads
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View Article[Poll] Will you consider Google Public Cloud solutions for your production...
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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 Article2016 – Hyperconverged Solutions With Containers To Become The “Norm”!
Containers are all the rage!Over the past year Containers such as Docker have generated tremendous interest and uptake among well-known cloud providers, who use them to deliver some of the largest and...
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 ArticleInfrastructure As Code, The Missing Element In The I&O Agenda
For many years, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals have been dedicated to delivering services at lower costs and ever greater efficiency, but the business technology (BT) agenda...
View ArticleSoftware-Defined Data Center, coming ready or not!
As we embark in the era of "cloud first" being business as usual for operations, one of the acronyms flying aground the industry is SDDC or the Software Defined Data Center. The term, very familiar to...
View ArticleDon't Wait; Rethink Your ITIL Journey Now!
Over the past 25 years, many organizations have modelled their support - and in some cases their delivery organization - after the ITIL frameworks and processes. For many, ITIL has been helpful in...
View ArticleVelocity Mandates DevOps And Continuous Deployment
Today's customers, products, business operations, and competitors are fundamentally digital. Succeeding in this new era mandates everyone constantly reinvent their businesses as fundamentally digital....
View ArticleCustomer-Obsessed Businesses Driving Infrastructure Transformation
Customers today are hyper-connected and their connectivity is rewriting the rules of business. Access to mobility, social networks, wearable devices, connected cars and hotels managed by robots are...
View ArticleDevOps And The Mainframe, A Perfect Match?
Did someone forget to tell the mainframe it was irrelevant?For many years, the much lauded death of the mainframe has been espoused by many pundits. Many believed the end of the mainframe would be...
View ArticleVelocity with quality mandates a model based approach to ARA tools and DevOps
DevOps velocity mandates change velocityEnterprises today are focusing on delivering applications faster to drive customer experiences and drive business transformation to meet rising expectations. For...
View ArticleDevOps The Code To Delivering With Velocity, Quality And Agility
Every business today is under pressure from a startup that is disrupting their traditional market. We have seen this in the taxi industry with Uber[i], ATOM Bank is revolutionizing banking[ii] and...
View ArticleWelcome to 2017: The year of #DevOps
We are eager to announce a beacon of light to help penetrate the post-holiday fog: Forrester's DevOps Benchmark Survey for 2017 is officially live! Led by myself and Researcher Elinor Klavens, this...
View ArticleEffective Metrics Are Critical For DevOps and Agile Success
In the days of old, not very long ago, release cycles were measured in years --organizations were using "on-time" and "on-budget" as the mantra for project efficacy. Business today is compelled to...
View ArticleDevOps, No Longer Just For “Unicorns”
The born-digital "unicorn" companies such as Etsy, Google and Netflix, are pioneers of modern DevOps, but BT leaders at companies of all ages, sizes, and types are now eagerly pursuing the same...
View ArticleDevOps, Invest For Velocity And Quality!
Delivering exceptional customer experiences and product for your business take speed and flexibility. More than ever before, speed and flexibility are required from every part of your organization,...
View ArticleDevOps Has Reached “Escape Velocity”, CIO’s Need To Get Onboard!
In an era where velocity and agility are driving technology management organizations over simple cost reduction, every business must constantly evolve to drive business differentiation. Leveraging...
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