Entries by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Monetizing GenAI: Cloud Vendors’ Investment Strategies and 2025 Outlook

In this TBR Insights Live session, TBR’s Cloud team gives a deep dive on AI’s impact on the cloud industry and highlights key findings from TBR’s newest cloud research report, AI & GenAI Model Provider Market Landscape, including examples of technology companies’ activities in 2024 as well as what to expect across the GenAI landscape in 2025.

Hybrid, Proximity and Ecosystems Are Elevating the Importance of Colocation

Whether due to existing legacy investments, divisional or regional nuances, or acquisition and divestiture activity, heterogeneity will remain in most IT environments. At one point, the benefits of public cloud made organizations consider a homogeneous, fully cloud-based IT delivery strategy, but those visions have faded for most. The challenge — and goal — is to embrace the hybrid heterogeneous approach and find the best way to integrate, manage and optimize services across these diverse sets of delivery methods and assets. Colocation data centers play a critical role for customers, offering a hybrid approach to facilities and in the interconnection of cloud and on-premises services.

SoftwareOne Strategy Brings Speed, Ease, Flexibility and Low Cost to SAP Clients in DACH Region

In a June 2024 chat with SoftwareOne’s DACH leadership, TBR uncovered three key observations that set SoftwareOne apart in the SAP ecosystem: focusing on pragmatic solutions for current SAP environments; emphasizing speed, flexibility and cost-effectiveness amid complexities of S/4HANA migration; and the impending 2027 ECC support deadline.