After a banner year for the "promise of progress" on AI ambitions, deepening CX fatigue, and ongoing economic volatility, Forrester is predicting 2026 will bring a year of reckoning. According to Sharyn Leaver, chief research officer at Forrester, "Navigating the coming year will take some mindset shifts: from lofty ambition to pragmatism, from experimentation to accountability, from surface-level engagement to meaningful connection." To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products, highlighting a commitment to innovation and efforts to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements.
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The cloud industry is entering a stage of hypergrowth driven by generative AI, hybrid and multi-cloud adoption, and global data acceleration. In 2025, global cloud infrastructure (IaaS) spending reached $90.9 billion in Q1 2025 alone—a 21% year-over-year increase, according to Omdia. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2026.
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The daily routine of an IT professional remains largely reactive. A lot of time and budget is spent responding to tickets, limiting the time that we spend creating systems that drive growth and improve business value. I've long said, "the tyranny of the urgent leaves little time for the truly important."
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Enterprise IT compliance needs are constantly evolving. New regulations pass every year, and internal policies change. Disruptive new technology trends, such as generative AI, create additional concerns and requirements. The risk of fines, legal exposure, or breaches from unmanaged unstructured data is massive and growing, and all hands across IT and the business need to help reduce the risks.
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