Exploiting the machine on your terms to drive business advantage

In many areas of business, and especially in IT and analytics, automation is the only way to both do more with less, and do it better and faster. That means offloading as much as possible to automated systems, which in turn means using AI and related technologies such as machine learning.

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What does “Investment in Generative AI” actually mean?

I’ve found myself in a number of conversations recently where the discussion has turned to[...]

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Why laptops and other edge devices are being AI-enabled

Why do we need dedicated AI engines in laptops, and especially in the ultrathin laptops[...]

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Why Intel has joined the race for the AI-enabled laptop

A new AI battlefield is opening up, not among all the GPU ‘farms’ in data[...]

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Custom chatbots and model gardens: putting Private AI to work

Part 2: More to think about It’s essential to decide where to run your Private[...]

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Understanding the rise and role of Private AI

Part 1: AI hype vs fear and doubt The leakage of proprietary IP and other[...]

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A CX perspective on the Contact Centre

Automation, AI and the transition to a new era

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CIO perceptions of vendor AI marketing

With all the recent press coverage, it’s not surprising to see IT vendors clamouring to[...]

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Time to sound the alarm as AI hype catches fire

One of the most worrying things that’s coming out of recent research

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An AI crash is coming: don’t let it drag you down

All the signs are there that an AI crash is coming: overinflated claims and dodgy[...]

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But is that really Artificial Intelligence?

CIOs speak out on the validity of vendor AI claims

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Don’t let your smart software suffer from poor platform choices

Mismatched AI and analytics can be massively inefficient

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The Agile Intelligent Enterprise: Making the Business Case for SAP S/4HANA

Clever Planning for a Successful Migration

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The role of machine learning and automation in storage

Drivers, perceptions, readiness and practicalities

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Taking the drudgery out of analytics

Analyst Blog: In recent years the importance of analytics has grown dramatically

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AI in Industry: The Myths and Reality

Machine Learning as a key enabler of next-generation industry

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AI in industry: the hype, the reality, and the unavoidable opportunity

But IT should beware of overcoming AI-wash only to fall victim to ML-sprawl

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Digital Transformation Practicalities

Lessons from Leonardo

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Enterprise AI: fiction and reality

Analyst opinion If you are starting to suspect that the AI hype is overblown, and[...]

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Laying the foundations for Enterprise AI

An architectural approach to deep learning platforms

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Enabling Industry 4.0 Infographic

IIoT needs an intelligent edge

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Connecting the industrial edge

Look for the common patterns

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Industrial Digital Transformation

On the cutting edge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Is HoloLens a serious business tool?

It's beginning to look that way

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All-Flash Arrays

All-Flash is becoming ‘the new normal’ in enterprise storage, but is right consider it as[...]

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Understanding Software-Defined Storage

In a nutshell The term “software-defined storage” (SDS) is all over the press, yet sometimes[...]

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The Enterprise Flash Imperative

From expensive luxury to essential enabler

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Five years later, the hybrid cloud is real

When we surveyed over 300 IT and business professionals back in 2011 on their attitudes[...]

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Getting all-flash storage investment approved

We are at an interesting time in the all-flash storage array market

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Rethinking long term data management

The emerging role of active archiving

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Unleashing the full potential of all-flash arrays

The network is part of the system too

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Enterprise Flash – The New Normal?

In a nutshell All-Flash Arrays (AFAs) have come a very long way in a short[...]

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Poor capacity planning is not our fault

Sysadmins explain why things are so crap

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Big questions for those looking for answers in big data

“Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The process of[...]

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All-flash storage uncertainty and doubt

In a nutshell All-flash arrays are arguably coming of age, but in an early market,[...]

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A peek behind the AI bandwagon

When an important topic or trend gives rise to a marketing and media bandwagon, any[...]

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Intelligent Systems in Action Infographic

The rise of the machines has already begun

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Data encryption must be a priority for the digital business

Organizations large and small are investing in digital transformation programs, cloud migration projects, and enterprise[...]

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AMZN, AAPL, GOOGL, FB, and MSFT

With a combined market capitalization of $2.3 trillion, Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft hold[...]

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Everyone’s talking about Dedupe

In a nutshell Storage is a very hot topic in every data centre and computer[...]

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Taking Sales Performance to the Next Level

So you’ve invested in CRM, and maybe a set of sophisticated modelling and analytics tools[...]

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Intelligent Systems in Action

As technology becomes smarter, more opportunities arise to exploit AI, machine learning and other forms[...]

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Cyber Security Ownership and Responsibility

It’s easy to be caught out by a cyber attack or internal mistake that leads[...]

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Why are backup and recovery measures often not as robust as they should be?

Data protection is essential for every business and its importance cannot be underestimated for disaster[...]

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Building a Curated Digital Hub

In a nutshell In today’s online business environment, with data spread broadly and widely, making[...]

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Tackling End User Content Sprawl

In a nutshell The problem of content sprawl has been around since the early days[...]

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IBM’s Spectrum Suite of storage tools is going to be a hard sell

IBM’s announcement of a storage suite with per Tb pricing is a natural move following[...]

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Enterprise Storage Architectures

Enterprise scale up storage arrays have traditionally been expensive to acquire and complex to manage.[...]

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Key Advances in Storage Technology

While your storage infrastructure may be meeting current needs, you will almost certainly be investing[...]

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Modern Storage Options for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

If you work in a small or medium-sized business environment, storage is probably something you[...]

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Data Protection and Management in a Box

In today’s fast-moving, information-intensive business environment, data management is more of a challenge than ever.[...]

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Ceph as an Enabler of Growth and Scalability

A perennial problem with storage is how to deal with escalating requirements in a smooth,[...]

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User-Centric Mobile Security

Not so long ago, many were speculating that ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) would define[...]

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What hyper-converged storage really means for you

To paraphrase an old joke, ask three IT “experts” for a definition of hyper-convergence and[...]

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Evolution of the OpenText portfolio

A few days into my first software sales role back in the 90’s, I was[...]

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Storage Quality of Service Management

Organisations are increasingly turning to multi-tiered shared storage environments to deal with growing data volumes,[...]

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The Impact of VMware VVOLs on Storage

VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) are due to be released in 2015 and have been designed[...]

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Data Virtualisation for DevOps

The DevOps movement is supported by a whole range of tools, and is particularly well[...]

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Are data centres heading towards a future of technology hardware monocultures?

You have probably heard the representatives of at least a few vendors say IT is moving[...]

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