How COVID Pandemic is Making IT Operations Analyst Jobs More Stressful
The global pandemic has radically changed the way enterprise IT services are produced, consumed, and managed. It also has exposed a glaring difference between the “the haves and have-nots” of the software development and operations teams. Engineering teams riding on CI/CD and DevOps waves are starting to see the full potential […]
Why Infusing AI Into IT Operations Is More About The Data Than About AI Itself
Almost every CIO I talk to boldly claims their enterprise is a “data-driven enterprise.” However, a recent Global CEO outlook by KPMG survey tells a completely different story: 67% of the CEOs worldwide (that number jumps to 78% in the US) suggest that they ignored the data-driven analytic and predictive models provided […]
Serverless in the Enterprise: Building Stateful Applications
Cloud native applications allow enterprises to design, build, deploy and manage monolithic applications in more agile, nimble ways. These applications accelerate business value while driving greater operational efficiencies and cost savings through containers, a pay-as-you-go model, and a distributed runtime. However, current serverless implementations (namely, Function-as-a-Service, or FaaS for short) […]
How To Rise Above The ITOps Chaos Using AI
CIOs (Chief Information Officers) are both excited and scared about digital transformation and the pace of innovation. While the ability to drive forward their businesses using IT is exciting, along with the agility and flexibility of newer IT infrastructure models, the fact that business will come to a standstill if […]
How AI Came to the Rescue of Scientists Studying the Sun
ai trends By Andy Thurai, Emerging Technology Strategist In 2014, NASA lost a crucial instrument housed on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite that measured extreme UV rays coming from the sun. With repair costs ranging from the millions to billions of dollars, a team from NASA Frontier Development Lab […]
It is Our Responsibility to Make Sure Our AI is Ethical and Moral
ai trends By Andy Thurai, Emerging Technology Strategist, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure A group of teachers successfully sued the Houston Independent School District (HISD) in 2017 claiming their Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when the school district used an opaque artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to evaluate and terminate 221 teachers. The judge overturned […]
8 Tips for Building An Effective AI System Infrastructure
ai trends By Andy Thurai, Emerging Technology Strategist, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure If you are a strategist, or a CIO, or a decision maker for your enterprise AI systems, the following octet of AI antidotes might help cure your AI nervousness. With the data sphere growth catapulting from the current 16.1 […]
IoT, Cloud, API predictions for 2016
This article was originally published on DataInformed. Co-authored with Mac Devine of IBM. The year 2016 will be exciting in terms of applied technologies. We see a lot of technologies maturing and moving from lab exercises to real-world business technologies that solve real-life customer problems – especially in the areas of digital […]
Is your API an asset or a liability?
VENTURE BEAT A touchy API topic is data ownership and liability, regardless of whether the APIs are open or protected. Obviously, depending on your business model and needs, you will choose to expose the APIs and the underlying assets to your developers, partners, public developers, your consumers, or others that […]