Yet another AWS re:Invent has come and gone and made an indelible mark in the technology sector. There were so many fresh developments that the keynotes barely scratched the surface. In this blog, I cover the ones pertaining to data, analytics and AI — areas that I am most passionate about. I am a veteran ...

News flash: Vector databases and vector searches are no longer a differentiation. Yes, how fast times change as what was cool just six months ago is suddenly table stakes! What is cool is a unified ecosystem that supports generative artificial intelligence use cases on the same stack and supports traditional online transaction processing and online ...

Internal skills gaps and talent market pressures are a persistent barrier for most infrastructure and operations leaders’ initiatives and this I&O skills shortage is not expected to improve in 2024. The challenge is further exacerbated when it comes to implementing edge in an organization. Skills gaps are particularly hard to fill for edge initiatives because ...

Generative artificial intelligence has created a new mandate in enterprise tech with significant implications for all companies generally and Amazon Web Services Inc. specifically. Amazon’s powerful playbook based on agility, developer choice, power, scale, reliability and security must now evolve to accommodate simplicity and coherence for mainstream customers. This imperative came into clear focus at ...

Generative artificial intelligence may be the hottest topic in enterprise information technology circles these days, but it was only part of the story at this past week’s massive Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, both within Amazon.com Inc.’s AWS and among exhibitors. AWS certainly touted its gen AI offerings. In particular, it is ...

When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, it ushered in the age of generative artificial intelligence for the masses and introduced a whole new world of innovation, opportunity and risk. Because of the open nature of ChatGPT and the other generative AI models that soon followed, many companies, especially those in big data and information ...

One of the most dramatic effects of generative artificial intelligence is on its way, as businesses apply the revolutionary technology to understanding and acting on business itself. In 2023 the world felt the gen AI revolution through computers that responded to ordinary language and produced original text, images, music and software code. This was possible ...

Information technology teams have transformed into critical and strategic business partners across their organizations. But with these new responsibilities come a new challenge: supply and demand. Like a traffic jam, IT teams consistently get stuck in the congestion of requests and backlogs from other teams, which can keep them from focusing on their own work. ...

Environmental sustainability objectives have rapidly become a top CEO priority. Achieving these objectives requires a shared responsibility approach: responsible use by organizations, coupled with responsible provision by vendors. Linking these two fundamental contributors is the sourcing function. Although the enterprise can act internally on sustainability, many are limited by their vendors’ priorities and capabilities to ...

At KubeCon/CloudNativeCon North America 2023 this past week in Chicago, discussion turned from the ubiquity of the software container orchestrator Kubernetes as the heart of cloud-native development to addressing a vast ecosystem of projects and vendors, which in turn are enabling applications and data to become more distributed and independent from any particular underlying cloud or on-premises ...