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Q&A with Tom Davenport: Should AI take over human decision-making?
Advancements in artificial intelligence are making machines smarter, so the sharpest and most data-hungry machines can now take on more sophisticated jobs. But AI is still not fully suitable for servant robots, driving vehicles, finding new planets or dealing with pandemics. The reason: Although AI is evolving quickly, it’s still no match for what’s underneath human capacity. ...
Q&A: If an automated robot does it all, what’s left for network engineers?
From checking health to configuring devices, network engineers have always used their fingers on the good, old command-line interface. CLI is fast, outputs lots of details, and gives them a lot of flexibility to push commands. There is no good network engineer that hasn’t spent hours working on the line interface. But now, with minimal ...
Q&A: Cisco and Presidio partner for network automation innovation
Cisco Systems Inc. was king in networking infrastructure. But things changed when the cloud took over and organizations increasingly began moving applications to the cloud. Yet, over time, many businesses took their workloads back to their on-premises environment and implemented a hybrid multicloud ecosystem. Cisco quickly realized it needed to transform along with the industry, and the company responded ...
Q&A: Medieval University of Pisa embraces virtualization technology
The University of Pisa is a medieval institution that was built to last. One of the oldest and well-established universities in the world, and home to the teachings of the famous Galileo Galilei, the University of Pisa proves that innovation is key to not only staying alive, but thriving. Fast forward 700 hundred years. Today ...
Q&A: VMware VeloCloud and Equinix virtualize the network edge
Equinix is one of the primary meeting points for cloud providers, ISPs, MPLS providers, end users and more. One of the most interesting Equinix offerings is its Performance Hubs, which allows organizations to bring hardware resources to the network edge, extending their networks into the Equinix’s IBX data centers to be closer to the end user. ...
Q&A: Trust nothing and forget perimeters: It’s all about intrinsic security
Most chief information security officers are well aware that building extrinsic security is key to protecting high-value assets, services, and workloads, enclosed within a perimeter. But building perimeters and attempting to control external situations is an outdated security strategy, according to Dave Husak (pictured, left), fellow and general manager of the Cloudless initiative at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. In ...
Q&A: Tech Data sees golden opportunity in edge computing
As a strategic channel partner of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., Tech Data Corp. lends a hand to better position the tech giant’s evolving portfolio of networking, security and internet of things services — from helping drive the new wave of intelligent edge computing to assisting in hybrid-cloud solutions. The Tech Data’s HPE team is now seeing a golden ...
Q&A: F5, NGINX aim to build ‘bulletproof’ applications
Multicloud applications services leader F5 Networks Inc. acquired NGINX in March 2019 with a mission to lessen the differences between NetOps, DevOps and SecOps. But bridging the gap between these three distant IT operation teams is no easy task. With the increased pressure to provide apps faster, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the gap ...
Q&A: Speeding up telco’s transition to the edge computing and 5G era
Although edge computing presents new challenges for telcos, as they have to deal with thousands of micro data centers and mobile edge computers at 5G cell sites, edge intelligence will provide incredible untapped value. In fact, telcos will be capable of delivering more than just transport capabilities, according to Steve Canepa (pictured), managing director and general manager ...
Q&A: Global pandemic gives businesses plenty of digital transformation opportunities
Although the digital transformation was already slowly turning businesses around, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many organizations had to immediately transition to operating digitally. While this is a crisis for some, it’s also an opportunity for many. “When we look at how marketing will progress and the leadership that we can provide in this digital ...