Achieving Proper Data Governance by Training Centrally; Inferring Locally; and Protecting Data Everywhere
After devoting much of 2023 to AI pilots and experiments following the debut of ChatGPT and GenAI, AI-minded organizations are now working to scale their AI initiatives to capitalize on their early but limited successes. Their goal? To integrate advanced AI capabilities across their operations for greater efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness. An April KPMG survey found that … continue reading
Working toward AIOps maturity? It’s never too early (or late) for platform engineering
Until about two years ago, many enterprises were experimenting with isolated proofs of concept or managing limited AI projects, with results that often had little impact on the company’s overall financial or operational performance. Few companies were making big bets on AI, and even fewer executive leaders lost their jobs when AI initiatives didn’t pan … continue reading
3 keys to enhancing connected experiences in modern networks
Whether it is a customer making an online purchase or an employee working with a SaaS application, high-performance digital connectivity is a must. When these connected experiences are degraded or fail, it’s a big problem. These issues can have an immediate and dramatic impact on productivity, revenues, brand, customer loyalty, and more. However, ensuring responsive, … continue reading
3 keys to optimizing operations in modern networking environments
In many enterprises, it seems IT and network operations teams are constantly being forced to react to problems, which leaves little time to make the meaningful optimizations that advance the organization’s objectives. Those realities only grow more pronounced as the implications of today’s modern networks continue to make their presence known. User connections continue to … continue reading
3 steps to accelerating your network transformations
For decades, the data center had also represented the network center, functioning as the core hub for applications, routing, firewalls, processing, and more. Now, the enterprise is highly reliant upon distributed workplaces, cloud-based resources, and third-party-operated networks. In the wake of this shift, a modern network has emerged, one that’s more diverse, complex, and dynamic … continue reading
Unleashing innovation via Composable Cloud: Customizing AI tech stacks for inference at the edge
Edge operations dominate the CTO agenda today, and as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning grow increasingly important across business operations, the CIO, CAIO, CDO, and other leaders are joining the conversation, leaning into edge operations to deliver AI at scale. However, the traditional edge operations designed to support distributed web apps can’t handle the … continue reading
IT Operations: Has Your Network Visibility Become Cloudy? Regain Your Sight
Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-based services such as SaaS-based apps and using hybrid and multi-cloud approaches. While the cloud has its advantages, it can create new challenges for IT and network operations teams. These teams are still responsible for ensuring that all of the connections between various components and services are available and performant. And … continue reading
The surprising ROI of Database DevOps
Implementing database optimization practices can help achieve business growth by protecting revenue from downtime, reducing manual task costs and protecting sensitive data. Now Redgate has put some tangible numbers behind those benefits to show how it can benefit your enterprise organization. View the ROI End-to-end Database DevOps provides a competitive advantage in a competitive economy. It can be a … continue reading
Modern network management needs to be experience-driven
Driving a new car for the first time used to be easy. You stepped in, turned the key, let go of the handbrake, and off you went. Not so now. Once seated, you press a button – or should you turn a key? – checking your foot is on the footbrake. Looking for the handbrake, … continue reading
Three ways to avoid AI-related network performance problems
Artificial intelligence (AI) is upending almost every sector – from health care and education to manufacturing and retail. It’s even creeping into comedy. Ameca – billed as the ‘world’s most advanced humanoid robot,’ according to UK start-up Engineered Arts – recently attempted to tell a joke. The punchline is so poor that we will leave … continue reading
Don’t Let WAN Bandwidth Get in the Way of Your AI Initiatives
New technologies emerge like baggage at an airport carousel. Every so often, a new one pops out from under that rubber flap we all stare at as we wait for our luggage. Cloud, virtualization, software-defined networks. They’ve all been around the carousel. One of the most recent to emerge is artificial intelligence (AI) and its … continue reading
The App-Aware NOC: The imperatives, and how to make it happen
Fire drills and ensuing all-hands-on-deck calls are nothing new for IT operations teams. I can remember working on a site reliability engineering (SRE) team for a large, global enterprise in the shipping industry back in the late 1990s. Early on in my tenure there, an issue occurred that affected the public facing site. Initially, we … continue reading
Drive Your Network Operations Into the Future
Once taken for granted, the network has become the key connective tissue as organizations increasingly move workloads to the cloud and have employees that work from anywhere. While the network has become the lynchpin for delivering modern application experiences, traditional network operations teams have suffered from a loss of visibility and control as network elements … continue reading
3 Pillars for Success in Managing Today’s Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure
For IT operations teams, it’s not so much that the rules have changed. The game has changed. It wasn’t that long ago that teams were able to employ some proven, long-standing tools and approaches and be effective in their work. Now those legacy approaches may present an increasing liability with each passing day. In recent … continue reading
