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Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies Joins The BSM Blog

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

APMdigest is pleased to announce that Jeff Kaplan, Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, has joined The BSM Blog.

THINKstrategies is a consulting firm that focuses entirely on the business implications of the transformation of the software and technology industry from a product-centric to a services-driven operating model, including Cloud Computing.

THINKstrategies helps its clients capitalize on this trend so they can achieve their business objectives. It specifically helps enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies.

Kaplan is also the founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace, the largest, vendor-independent, online directory and best practice resource center with over 1685 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) company listings across over 90 Application, Industry and Service categories.

Prior to forming THINKstrategies, Jeff served as VP of Marketing and Business Development at InterOPS Management Solutions, an Internet Operations Management Services Provider. Before joining InterOPS, Jeff was Director of Strategic Marketing at International Network Services (INS) and subsequently Lucent Technologies, which acquired INS. Jeff also spent 13 years as a leading industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest and META Group.

Jeff is a founding member of Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) SaaS Executive Council, and is a member of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council.

He is an organizer and frequent speaker at various industry conferences, including track-moderator for NetworkWorld’s IT Roadmap; chairman of CloudWorld and Cloud Futures conferences; and a founding member of the SaaScon Advisory Board.

He is also a contributing columnist for BusinessWeek, Mass High Tech Journal, E-Commerce Times, Financial Times of London, NetworkWorld, Datamation, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, Managing Automation, and the Web Hosting Industry Review.

Jeff is also a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium; Senior Advisor to Triple-Tree, LCC, a leading investment banking firm focused on IT/business services; and member of Pacific Crest Securities’ Mosaic Expert Network. He has also served on the Board of Directors of AMR Research, and numerous corporate advisory boards.

Related Links:

Click here to read Jeff Kaplan's first blog: Three Tiers of Analytic Possibilities in the Cloud

www.cloudshowplace.com

www.thinkstrategies.com

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A new study by the IBM Institute for Business Value reveals that enterprises are expected to significantly scale AI-enabled workflows, many driven by agentic AI, relying on them for improved decision making and automation. The AI Projects to Profits study revealed that respondents expect AI-enabled workflows to grow from 3% today to 25% by the end of 2025. With 70% of surveyed executives indicating that agentic AI is important to their organization's future, the research suggests that many organizations are actively encouraging experimentation ...

Respondents predict that agentic AI will play an increasingly prominent role in their interactions with technology vendors over the coming years and are positive about the benefits it will bring, according to The Race to an Agentic Future: How Agentic AI Will Transform Customer Experience, a report from Cisco ...

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As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption gains momentum, network readiness is emerging as a critical success factor. AI workloads generate unpredictable bursts of traffic, demanding high-speed connectivity that is low latency and lossless. AI adoption will require upgrades and optimizations in data center networks and wide-area networks (WANs). This is prompting enterprise IT teams to rethink, re-architect, and upgrade their data center and WANs to support AI-driven operations ...

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Application performance monitoring (APM) is a game of catching up — building dashboards, setting thresholds, tuning alerts, and manually correlating metrics to root causes. In the early days, this straightforward model worked as applications were simpler, stacks more predictable, and telemetry was manageable. Today, the landscape has shifted, and more assertive tools are needed ...

Cloud adoption has accelerated, but backup strategies haven't always kept pace. Many organizations continue to rely on backup strategies that were either lifted directly from on-prem environments or use cloud-native tools in limited, DR-focused ways ... Eon uncovered a handful of critical gaps regarding how organizations approach cloud backup. To capture these prevailing winds, we gathered insights from 150+ IT and cloud leaders at the recent Google Cloud Next conference, which we've compiled into the 2025 State of Cloud Data Backup ...

Private clouds are no longer playing catch-up, and public clouds are no longer the default as organizations recalibrate their cloud strategies, according to the Private Cloud Outlook 2025 report from Broadcom. More than half (53%) of survey respondents say private cloud is their top priority for deploying new workloads over the next three years, while 69% are considering workload repatriation from public to private cloud, with one-third having already done so ...

As organizations chase productivity gains from generative AI, teams are overwhelmingly focused on improving delivery speed (45%) over enhancing software quality (13%), according to the Quality Transformation Report from Tricentis ...

Back in March of this year ... MongoDB's stock price took a serious tumble ... In my opinion, it reflects a deeper structural issue in enterprise software economics altogether — vendor lock-in ...

Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies Joins The BSM Blog

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

APMdigest is pleased to announce that Jeff Kaplan, Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, has joined The BSM Blog.

THINKstrategies is a consulting firm that focuses entirely on the business implications of the transformation of the software and technology industry from a product-centric to a services-driven operating model, including Cloud Computing.

THINKstrategies helps its clients capitalize on this trend so they can achieve their business objectives. It specifically helps enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies.

Kaplan is also the founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace, the largest, vendor-independent, online directory and best practice resource center with over 1685 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) company listings across over 90 Application, Industry and Service categories.

Prior to forming THINKstrategies, Jeff served as VP of Marketing and Business Development at InterOPS Management Solutions, an Internet Operations Management Services Provider. Before joining InterOPS, Jeff was Director of Strategic Marketing at International Network Services (INS) and subsequently Lucent Technologies, which acquired INS. Jeff also spent 13 years as a leading industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest and META Group.

Jeff is a founding member of Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) SaaS Executive Council, and is a member of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council.

He is an organizer and frequent speaker at various industry conferences, including track-moderator for NetworkWorld’s IT Roadmap; chairman of CloudWorld and Cloud Futures conferences; and a founding member of the SaaScon Advisory Board.

He is also a contributing columnist for BusinessWeek, Mass High Tech Journal, E-Commerce Times, Financial Times of London, NetworkWorld, Datamation, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, Managing Automation, and the Web Hosting Industry Review.

Jeff is also a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium; Senior Advisor to Triple-Tree, LCC, a leading investment banking firm focused on IT/business services; and member of Pacific Crest Securities’ Mosaic Expert Network. He has also served on the Board of Directors of AMR Research, and numerous corporate advisory boards.

Related Links:

Click here to read Jeff Kaplan's first blog: Three Tiers of Analytic Possibilities in the Cloud

www.cloudshowplace.com

www.thinkstrategies.com

The Latest

A new study by the IBM Institute for Business Value reveals that enterprises are expected to significantly scale AI-enabled workflows, many driven by agentic AI, relying on them for improved decision making and automation. The AI Projects to Profits study revealed that respondents expect AI-enabled workflows to grow from 3% today to 25% by the end of 2025. With 70% of surveyed executives indicating that agentic AI is important to their organization's future, the research suggests that many organizations are actively encouraging experimentation ...

Respondents predict that agentic AI will play an increasingly prominent role in their interactions with technology vendors over the coming years and are positive about the benefits it will bring, according to The Race to an Agentic Future: How Agentic AI Will Transform Customer Experience, a report from Cisco ...

A new wave of tariffs, some exceeding 100%, is sending shockwaves across the technology industry. Enterprises are grappling with sudden, dramatic cost increases that threaten to disrupt carefully planned budgets, sourcing strategies, and deployment plans. For CIOs and CTOs, this isn't just an economic setback; it's a wake-up call. The era of predictable cloud pricing and stable global supply chains is over ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption gains momentum, network readiness is emerging as a critical success factor. AI workloads generate unpredictable bursts of traffic, demanding high-speed connectivity that is low latency and lossless. AI adoption will require upgrades and optimizations in data center networks and wide-area networks (WANs). This is prompting enterprise IT teams to rethink, re-architect, and upgrade their data center and WANs to support AI-driven operations ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is core to observability practices, with some 41% of respondents reporting AI adoption as a core driver of observability, according to the State of Observability for Financial Services and Insurance report from New Relic ...

Application performance monitoring (APM) is a game of catching up — building dashboards, setting thresholds, tuning alerts, and manually correlating metrics to root causes. In the early days, this straightforward model worked as applications were simpler, stacks more predictable, and telemetry was manageable. Today, the landscape has shifted, and more assertive tools are needed ...

Cloud adoption has accelerated, but backup strategies haven't always kept pace. Many organizations continue to rely on backup strategies that were either lifted directly from on-prem environments or use cloud-native tools in limited, DR-focused ways ... Eon uncovered a handful of critical gaps regarding how organizations approach cloud backup. To capture these prevailing winds, we gathered insights from 150+ IT and cloud leaders at the recent Google Cloud Next conference, which we've compiled into the 2025 State of Cloud Data Backup ...

Private clouds are no longer playing catch-up, and public clouds are no longer the default as organizations recalibrate their cloud strategies, according to the Private Cloud Outlook 2025 report from Broadcom. More than half (53%) of survey respondents say private cloud is their top priority for deploying new workloads over the next three years, while 69% are considering workload repatriation from public to private cloud, with one-third having already done so ...

As organizations chase productivity gains from generative AI, teams are overwhelmingly focused on improving delivery speed (45%) over enhancing software quality (13%), according to the Quality Transformation Report from Tricentis ...

Back in March of this year ... MongoDB's stock price took a serious tumble ... In my opinion, it reflects a deeper structural issue in enterprise software economics altogether — vendor lock-in ...