Although artificial intelligence has proved its ability to reshape industries, redefine customer experiences and reimagine business operations, it also carries inherent risks. And though robots haven’t overtaken the world as foreshadowed time and time again by science fiction movies, there’s a very real threat to businesses of AI going awry. One of the key components ...

Adobe Summit 2024 put individualized digital experiences on full display. Personalization at scale is exceedingly difficult. By applying artificial intelligence, Adobe Systems Inc. showed off its ability to bring custom experiences to the masses and do so with trusted, enterprise-grade content. Moreover, Adobe highlighted an expanded total available market for its three major business segments ...

Return-to-office initiatives are in the news more and more lately, but is mandating employees to return the best approach? Cisco Systems Inc. Chief Executive Chuck Robbins is taking a different approach. Instead of a mandate, Cisco has reimagined its offices to make them a magnet for employees to return. I toured its offices at Penn1 ...

The sizzle at this past week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris was all about Kubernetes-based infrastructure for generative artificial intelligence. The steak, in contrast, was all about platforms. I attend conferences such as KubeCon to uncover particularly innovative vendors who are pushing the boundaries of their respective technologies. Since is my seventh article for ...

Generative artificial intelligence has struck like a bolt of lightning, rapidly moving from an industry buzzword to a robust business opportunity. A report by Gartner indicates that chief supply chain officers are investing in growth through new technology investments, with many anticipating allocating an average of 73% of their supply chain information technology budgets to areas ...

Not many enterprises can tackle the complexity and expense of building a full-scale machine learning platform from the ground up, but not many are Walmart Inc. The retail giant intends to infuse artificial intelligence throughout its operations and wants the maximum flexibility to use whatever models, toolkits and cloud resources its developers prefer. The result ...

The recent U.S. Executive Order on Safe, Secure and Trustworthy AI has major implications for U.S. and non-U.S. entities across the public, private, academic, nongovernmental organization, and consumer and citizen ecosystems. The EO also has an impact on U.S. federal agencies and those who work with them. It will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the ...

FinOps, meaning the practice of managing cloud costs, has been around for years. Yet it continues to evolve in response to emerging challenges in the realm of cloud spending. If you want to stay at the forefront of cloud cost management best practices, you need to embrace up-and-coming FinOps trends. Let’s take a look at those ...

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the largest telecommunications-focused conference in the world. More than 100,000 attendees descended on well over 1,000 exhibitors, teasing out all manner of innovative technologies and business strategies. Although every vendor at the conference struggled to put on its best face, there was nevertheless an undercurrent of desperation, as the much-hyped ...

This is the second two parts. You can read part one here. Yesterday, we rained on the generative artificial intelligence parade. We stated that that today, gen AI is currently a cost sink, with the true promise not coming until at least 12 to 24 months off. Today it’s time to clear the clouds. We’ll ...