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over cloud management. In this report, we explain how the I&O role changes in a hybrid cloud world,
how I&O pros need to accelerate the cloud application delivery life cycle to exceed business expectations
of cloud, and which cloud management capabilities I&O must master to take on the role of hybrid cloud
manager. For more information, see the July 30, 2013, “
how I&O pros need to accelerate the cloud application delivery life cycle to exceed business expectations
of cloud, and which cloud management capabilities I&O must master to take on the role of hybrid cloud
manager. For more information, see the July 30, 2013, “
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report.
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Forrester discusses the role of IaaS+ capabilities in the public cloud market in two reports. For more
information, see the June 14, 2013, “
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report and see the February 22, 2013, “
” report.
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Development + operations = DevOps. DevOps denotes better communication and collaboration between
application development professionals and infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals. DevOps
improves collaboration in deploying and running applications and infrastructure to drive better outcomes.
improves collaboration in deploying and running applications and infrastructure to drive better outcomes.
Effective enterprise IT organizations have been doing this for years. But new developments in cloud
computing are ushering in a new era of on-demand infrastructure, self-provisioning of resources, and
elastic application architectures, greatly diminishing the need for developers to interact with operations
for releases. A DevOps focus on collaboration evolves into a NoOps focus on automation. For more
information, see the April 26, 2011, “
elastic application architectures, greatly diminishing the need for developers to interact with operations
for releases. A DevOps focus on collaboration evolves into a NoOps focus on automation. For more
information, see the April 26, 2011, “
” report.
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Organizations have for years sought a means of more quickly delivering business value in the form of
working software. Inspired by innovations in Agile software development and the application of the
Lean principle of continuous improvement, development and operations have been chipping away at the
Lean principle of continuous improvement, development and operations have been chipping away at the
obstacles that have prevented faster delivery. Joining together, the movement, called DevOps by some, has
been gaining momentum and achieving impressive results. The walls between development, operations,
and the business are coming down, ushering in a new age of collaboration that, in leading organizations,
is already proving itself in delivering real business value faster and more frequently. This report presents
the seven main principles of DevOps that have been proven by some of the most dominant technology
innovators in the world. For more information, see the September 3, 2013, “
been gaining momentum and achieving impressive results. The walls between development, operations,
and the business are coming down, ushering in a new age of collaboration that, in leading organizations,
is already proving itself in delivering real business value faster and more frequently. This report presents
the seven main principles of DevOps that have been proven by some of the most dominant technology
innovators in the world. For more information, see the September 3, 2013, “
” report.
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From surveys, interviews, and inquiry calls, Forrester is seeing an emergence of four private cloud
approaches that are driven by very different strategies and thus have variant scope and results. Forrester
profiles these common approaches to cloud in the following Forrester report. See the October 28, 2013,
profiles these common approaches to cloud in the following Forrester report. See the October 28, 2013,
” report.
Forrester plans to publish a report that will adjust the scorings of the Forrester Wave report to reflect these
four common cloud approaches.
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In 2011, Forrester published a lightweight evaluation of the private cloud market. For more information, see
the May 17, 2011, “
” report.
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Early business-unit-aligned cloud admins were forced to build a cloud from incomplete systems, like the
early open source Eucalyptus project, but increasingly these buyers are eschewing the erector-set models
for appliances, complete software solutions, or software that is a cloud management tool first and a private
cloud second. Today’s cloud admins are deploying Citrix’s cloud solution based on Apache CloudStack or
for appliances, complete software solutions, or software that is a cloud management tool first and a private
cloud second. Today’s cloud admins are deploying Citrix’s cloud solution based on Apache CloudStack or