artificial intelligence

Back in 1940, a Canadian named Norman Breakey invented the paint roller—a leap forward in painting technology. Immediately, professional painters panicked, fearing large-scale job loss, and for years, paint rollers were banned from professional painting jobs. But of course, large-scale adoption was…

In my last blog, we explored some tried and true marketing tactics that won’t fade away in the post-digital world. Change is constant, so the key is being able to adapt and keep a continual learning mindset. With the customer journey becoming more multi-dimensional and personal, it’s important to ab…

Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers are experiencing significant benefits from Intersight’s cloud-based systems management in edge computing and remote office branch office (ROBO) environments as well as in the data center. Extending IT Operations to the Edge In the past three months we have in…

Data is the lifeblood of business. It helps drive deep insights and better decisions, improve processes, and offer a deeper understanding of customers, partners and business. Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) enables us to learn from data, identify patterns and make better decisio…

I always get giddy about going to NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which is happening next week in San Jose. Just looking at the catalog of sessions gets me dreaming about what artificial intelligence will make possible and more importantly the business benefits that can already be derived fr…

AI holds tremendous potential to be a disruptive force, but only a small percentage of companies appear to be capitalizing on it, according to recent research published in MITSloan Management Review. The way I see it, what stands in the way of progress for most businesses isn’t what you might expect…

The Internet of Things (IoT) has started to move to the mainstream in enterprises across all industries. With IoT spending set to increase by 15 percent to reach $772.5 billion by the end of 2018, the coming year will undoubtedly bring further growth in the number of connected devices and enterprise…

Over the last few years, many people—myself included—have been touting the Internet of Things (IoT) as a driving force behind digital transformation. But is IoT by itself truly that transformational? Well, I would argue that it is not. IoT focuses mainly on securely connecting devices that generate…

SD-WAN has blown past all of our 2017 expectations. It has become one of the hottest trends in networking, and forecasts are increasing every quarter with IDC predicting the size of the SD-WAN market to be $8.05B by 2021. My colleagues keep asking me, “Where do we go from here?” Will the forecasts c…