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 ...

This is the first of two parts. Part two is here. It’s little mystery that generative artificial intelligence has dominated the spotlight in tech over the past year. A couple of KPMG surveys of top U.S. business executives conducted in March and June of last year document what has become conventional wisdom: Gen AI is being ...

The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and generative AI has many organizations wondering if a chief AI officer is needed. Gartner has found that each time there is a disruption, or new era of technology, another C-suite role is not necessarily warranted. This is the case with the role of the CAIO. Though it is ...

Enterprise software is a winner-take-all game, where also-rans are acquired or run out of business by a few dominant vendors that can lock in customers, demand their own price and grow at a disproportionate rate to the economies they serve. At ZohoDay 2024 near Zoho Corp.’s latest tech center in McAllen, Texas, an audience of ...

In an interview late last year, Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang declared that the world is going through a second wave of artificial intelligence. The first one, he argued, was driven by the private sector – companies across the tech industry spectrum, from large tech multinationals to nascent startups. A major catalyst for the second ...

Generative artificial intelligence disrupted the enterprise in 2023 and is now a must-have consideration in 2024 plans. With this in mind, technical professionals must strive to enhance and modernize their data management platforms to support gen AI to achieve greater business outcomes. Gen AI relies on AI-ready data to function. However, because gen AI has ...

In order to support the vision of the sixth data platform, that is, a capability that allows a globally consistent, real-time, intelligent digital representation of a business, we believe the industry must rethink the single system of truth. Specifically, we envision a new data platform that marries the best of relational and nonrelational capabilities and ...