CIO In The Know – AI Gets a Reality Check and Focus on the Right Metrics

The CIO In The Know newsletter highlights the evolving discourse among CIOs regarding artificial intelligence (AI), its capabilities, and associated challenges. It emphasizes the importance of aligning AI with customer experience metrics and addressing cybersecurity concerns. Additionally, it advocates for a balanced approach to automated remediation, while exploring trends toward suite-based solutions over isolated applications.

Is SaaS dead? The reports of SaaS’ death are greatly exaggerated

The discussion centers on whether AI can replace Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. While many assert AI will fully replace SaaS, it's more accurate to say AI may augment or improve certain SaaS functionalities. The complexity of building enterprise applications using AI, alongside governance and operational challenges, suggests that a complete replacement is improbable.

HPE’s new Alletra storage service provides holistic management and protection

Earlier this month, HPE announced their new HPE Alletra Storage MP offerings. During the announcement, CEO Antonio Neri reiterated HPE’s commitment to customers from four years ago to make everything in HPE’s portfolio available ‘as a service’ under the HPE Greenlake branding and services. The move…

From Edge to Cloud: Understanding the Infrastructure Delivery Spectrum

In the not too distant past, the infrastructure world was a fairly simple place. There were servers, storage systems and networking equipment. The combination of these three raw materials provided the foundation for many applications and companies. Over time, the…

Working without a computer Weekend Edition

Last week, I started a series of posts documenting the experience of working without a computer. The first post with all the details of why and how can be found here: https://avoa.com/2018/08/10/working-without-a-computer-day-1/ Since this post covers the weekend, it is…