Pete Johnson

April 26, 2019

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Wrapping Our Minds Around AIOps

What’s your verdict on AI so far? Is it a good thing? A bad thing? A scary thing? I suspect that most of us—even those employed in the tech sector—are only vaguely aware of what AI is capable of at this point. And what I’m finding is that the more I learn, the more I’m actually quite excited about t…

February 26, 2019

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Cloud Unfiltered, Ep72: AI-driven Decentralized IaaS is Here

First off, there are two things you need to know about this week’s guest on the Cloud Unfiltered podcast: 1) Barack Obama follows her on Twitter, and 2) She and her husband modified a Hummer to run on vegetable oil. Those two things alone make her interesting enough (and cool enough) that I would be…

February 18, 2019

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20 Billion Edge Devices?!

Were you aware that there are projected to be 20 Billion (with a B) edge devices in use by 2020 (next year)?! I wasn’t either. It’s just not the kind of thing that keeps me awake at night. But apparently it is exactly the kind of thing that keeps some people up. They worry about how edge application…

February 11, 2019

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Exploring the Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS

I’m not an IT leader, but if I were, I have to say that I’d find the whole concept of hybrid cloud exhausting. Not so much because it’s inherently hard to comprehend, but because the definition of it seems slippery at best—varying greatly over time and by whom you’re talking to. At various points I’…

January 23, 2019

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Going on a Virtual Ride-Along With Cisco Cloud Services

What if you could go for a ride-along with a Cisco Cloud Services rep for a week? Wouldn’t that be the best?! Really—think about it. You’d get to pop in to a bunch of different businesses and hear first-hand what they’re struggling with when it comes to cloud implementation, plus you’d get to hear h…