IBM was into AI early on. Its first Watson implementations showcased that it wasn’t the cost of the hardware or software that made AI difficult; it was the cost of creating the massive datasets needed to train the platform. These […]
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I had a lot of hope for the Apple/IBM partnership. That hope was qualified, though, because Apple doesn’t work well with others and has historically not only hated IBM but the IT folks IBM sells to. Cisco also partnered with
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TechSpective Podcast Episode 112 In 2000 Marc Andreessen noted software is eating the world. Fast forward a couple decades, and I think it’s fair to say he wasn’t wrong. Now that pretty much everything is code, and there are
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Dell Technologies Inc. just released a 2023 ESG report that shows significant progress. Like most tech firms, Dell is taking ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) very seriously, but it wasn’t always this way. Thanks to its almost impossible acquisition of
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Generative AI is all the rage at the moment. Ethan Mollick out of Wharton has been showcasing just how amazing and disruptive these tools are. This 10-minute video that he has created, for those that haven’t seen what Generative AI
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AI, as it is being presented, isn’t a solution alone. We learned this with IBM’s Watson when we discovered that the cost of training Watson far exceeded the cost of the hardware. Most AI projects fail largely because the company
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While sustainability efforts are incredibly popular with customers, they come at a cost. Vendors will push out sustainability metrics so that they can talk sustainability while pushing the cost of any serious efforts off until later years. At Cisco Live
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I had a chance to chat with HP’s current CEO, Enrique Lores. The company had a tough quarter last quarter but still showed one of the strongest financial outlooks of any of the vendors I cover. HP’s ability to execute
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To say that NVIDIA’s recent financial results were impressive would be a huge understatement. I’ve been working as an internal or external analyst for just short of 40 years now, and there are two recurring mistakes that companies make when
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Generative AI is very new, so it’s having a few growing pains. One of the major issues is that the results that generative AI produces can’t always be trusted because the data that trained the AI has been somehow compromised.
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