James Staten

James Staten is a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, providing insights and best-practice use of emerging infrastructure technology and services trends, including cloud computing (IaaS and public and private clouds)…, strategic rightsourcing, infrastructure consolidation, and application-specific infrastructure optimizations. James is the author of best-practice analysis on maturing your virtualization practices, building a cloud computing consumption strategy, and optimizing website infrastructures for blazing-fast performance.performance. He also advises clients on IT's role in business empowerment and HERO enablement.

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How 100-year-old firms stay relevant

Many legacy Fortune 500 firms are no longer market leaders because their focus remains on protecting their traditional business in this era of digital transformation

July 23, 2019 by James Staten in CXO

Protect your customers’ lives via tech-driven innovation

CIO must understand how healthcare companies and new players are innovating to improve human conditions while positioning their firms for future market leadership.

June 26, 2019 by James Staten in Digital Transformation

Cloud computing enters its second stage, hypergrowth ensues

While the last several years can best be characterized as exploratory for most enterprises, cloud services and cloud platforms are now an undeniable part of the IT landscape.

April 24, 2014 by James Staten in Cloud

Can pricing actions make Google’s cloud platform worth a look?

Google’s new Sustained-use Discounts returns that value to customers without the hassle of forecasting or predicting future cloud use. It’s a simple and highly compelling value - if you use more, you get a bigger discount, automatically.

March 25, 2014 by James Staten in Cloud

How Systems of Engagement Are Turning Your Company Into a Software Vendor

As we enter the age of the customer we are leveraging cloud, mobile and big data technologies to build better and more complete experiences with our customers. In doing so we are creating new digital experiences, radically different interactions, and redefining what our companies do and how they should be viewed.

March 17, 2014 by James Staten in Developer

2014: Cloud joins the formal IT portfolio

In 2013, enterprises got real about cloud computing. In 2014,we will integrate it into our existing IT portfolios -- whether IT likes it or not. See Forrester's 10 predictions for cloud computing.

December 4, 2013 by James Staten in Cloud

Forrester's 2013 Cloud Predictions: A Look Back

At this time 12 months ago, Forrester released our predictions for what changes in the market would be brought about by the maturing of cloud computing. Looking back on the year, we can now see that, while the promise of a maturing market was strong, maturity was by no means uniform and thus our predictions proved to be a mixed bag.

November 22, 2013 by James Staten in Cloud

AT&T turns its data into an adaptive intelligence business

In what ways is AT&T taking a fresh approach to big data business intelligence?

September 30, 2013 by James Staten in Big Data

You can learn from the clouds but you can't compete

If you want to be the best in data center operations you are right to benchmark yourself against the cloud computing leaders – just don’t delude yourself into thinking you can match them.

August 20, 2013 by James Staten in Cloud

Why PRISM's potential impact on cloud industry is under-valued and over-rated

Forrester estimates the US cloud computing industry could lose up to $180 billion by 2016 thanks to the NSA's PRISM project - but only if you believe that concerns about government spying trump the business benefits of going cloud.

August 15, 2013 by James Staten in Cloud

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