Tag: forrester
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CIOs: Get Tech Sprawl Under Control – “According to Forrester’s Q2 2024 Tech Pulse Survey, a staggering 77% of US technology decision-makers report moderate to extensive levels of technology sprawl. This sprawl can result in unsustainable costs, slower IT delivery, reduced operational resilience, and increased security risks.”
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There’s a lot of private cloud out there
…right? I’ve been looking around for estimates on how many custom written apps run on private vs. public cloud. There’s a lot of coverage and estimates of people using multiple clouds, but finding breakouts is tough. IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND! Here’s what I’ve found recently: “According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023,…
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The Emerging Technologies That Will Drive The Future Of Payments – “A 2023 Forrester survey indicates that 63% of business and tech leaders plan to increase their investments in emerging technologies in the coming year. Yet despite this fervor, only 18% reported high success rates in their previous year’s tech initiatives.”
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Forrester: IT departments are blowing their cloud budgets | Computer Weekly – “Nearly three in four (72%) of the IT decision-makers polled reported that their company exceeded its set cloud budget in the most recent fiscal year. Among the areas experiencing an acceleration of cloud deployments are: applications/workloads in IT operations (54%); hybrid work (50%);…
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“Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.”
Just links today. Relevant to your interests Two methods for designing better, more developer friendly platforms – Two ways to make good platform product management decisions: go to where the developers are, ask the developers // a little article by me. Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure – A big overview of platform engineering.…
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Forrester’s Impressions: VMware Explore 2023 – A brief overview of VMware’s strategy and where Forrester thinks it going.
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Why is developer experience so bad if we all think software is so important?
This week’s Tanzu Talk podcast (video above) is all about developer experience, and COBOL: “75% of IT and business executives say that their companies’ ability to compete is directly related to their ability to release quality software quickly” reads a recent Forrester Consulting report. If that’s the case, why are so many developer in large…
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Forrester VMware Executive Checklist for DevEx – “75% of IT and business executives say that their companies’ ability to compete is directly related to their ability to release quality software quickly.” And, a DevEx definition: “DevEx represents the skills, tools, frameworks, and methodologies aimed at creating, maintaining, and enhancing code throughout the software delivery lifecycle…
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Platform Engineering is just CI/CD infused with enterprise goop (jk…I think?)
Midjourney: a datacenter filled with clouds in the style of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Just when you thought (perhaps, hoped) we finally had an understanding of what “platform engineering” is, Gartner and Forrester came out with a Magic Quadrant and a Wave that re-confuses the category. Or, if you like, helps bring more clarity to…
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Use Forrester’s insights to calm depositors and prevent a bank run – Europeans are trusting their banks a lot more than Americans: ‘Among US online consumers, 40% agreed with the statement, “Recent problems with banks have made me more concerned that my bank will not be there for me when I need it.” French online…
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CD Foundation Releases Fourth State of Continuous Delivery Report, 2023 – In these surveys (based on big SlashData surveys), Since 2020, the reporting on the deployment frequency breakout has held steady: ~35% more than a month, ~32% a week to a month, ~22% hourly to weekly, ~10% multiple times a day. These are a lot…
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“catatonic leadership”
Found by my mother! 2023 IT Spending Forecasts from Gartner and Forester – software and cloud stuff has good/OK growth Summary: There’s always money in the banana stand. Gartner’s IT spend prediction: Worldwide IT spending is projected to total \$4.5 trillion in 2023, an increase of 2.4% from 2022, according to the latest forecast by…
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The last “platform” diagram you’ll ever need – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #66
The last “platform” diagram you’ll ever need, chop the first paragraph. Scroll all the way down for two secret videos about kubernetes. Grind! How to build apps to run on kubernetes Register for SpringOne Tour Chicago here, and use the code S1T_SAVE25 for a $25 discount. A Good “Platform” Diagram I’m always looking for good…
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🗂 Link: One Toolchain to Manage All the Development: A CI/CD-Vendor Obsession
A 2019 Forrester study sponsored by GitLab quantified found that more than three-quarters of organizations use at least two software delivery toolchains, with the average organization having six or more tools per toolchain. Based on a survey of 252 IT professionals with responsibility over toolchain management, the study also reported that ensuring security (45%) and…
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Link: Forrester SVP: VMware Is One Of The ‘Exciting’ Stars Of IT Automation Era
‘O’Donnell called VMware and Pivotal the “crown jewels” of Dell’s $70 billion blockbuster acquisition of EMC in 2015. “It’s the future,” said O’Donnell. “It’s the software side of it. A lot of good stuff came with EMC but what VMware and Pivotal are doing is the future. It’s all about software.”’ Original source: Forrester SVP:…
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Link: How Companies are Saving Millions with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
“A recent Forrester study commissioned by Pivotal which analyzed the benefits PCF customers see when adopting the platform found that developers gain 50 percent more coding hours a week. How? The automation and self-service features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry decrease manual and mundane deployment tasks. Wait times for environment setup and code to be prompted…
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Link: The State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem
Overview of the (vendor) players. Also: “According to predictions from 451 Research, the market is set to grow from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020.” “A Forrester study found that 66% of organizations who adopted containers experienced accelerated developers efficiency, while 75% of companies achieved a moderate to significant increase in application…
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Link: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for Designers
“Forrester has determined that teams that are applying IBM’s design thinking practice and are adequately staffed with design talent are getting to market twice as fast as without. These teams are also seeing up to a 75% reduction in design and development time.” Original source: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for…
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Analyst Relations, with Rita Manachi – Software Defined Interviews #69
Getting familiar with analyst relations is a key component of an enterprise software business. “Analyst relations” is sort of like PR, but actually pretty different. You want to, of course, drive influence with the analysts, but also consume the content and advise they’re putting out. And while there’s two major firms in the tech world…
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Coté Memo – Issue #3
Things are thin this episode as I took some time off for family. “An ongoing battle” “Beer versus scientist represented a kind of schism between the banality of speech versus the originality of thought. An ongoing battle.” From Authority, delightfully “new weird.” Coté Content DevOps isn’t just about the new: It’s about cleaning up the…