Enterprises, like telcos, face a world dominated by AI and other hype, while their own technical reality is still pretty pedestrian. There are some points of congruence between hype areas and real planning focus, but even in those areas the influences driving enterprise network and IT planning are more complicated than responding to a new…
OK, MWC is over, and most operators say that it didn’t have answers for them on how to increase their profits. “We had a lot of vendors telling us the same old things,” one told me. Is there no new thing? Must operators, to achieve their goals, finally start doing things they’ve been told they…
Operators attending MWC aren’t all that happy about the state of the show, the mobile market, or their own mobile opportunities. I’ve gotten comments from 54 of them as of end-of-show on Wednesday, and 48 found little to be pleased with. The six that were at least a bit positive were reacting in some way…
MWC, like all trade shows, generates an enormous amount of ink; more ink than insight in my own view, which is why I no longer go to shows (unless someone pays me to be there). One problem this generates is the predictable shifting of focus from tech evaluation to tech entertainment; people seem to adopt…
After my blog on the cloud or Internet absorbing the WAN, I got a lot of comments from enterprises. Sixty were particularly detailed and even included some back-and-forth clarifications, and all were thoughtful enough to warrant some discussion. Networking is changing, and the majority of enterprises think it will change radically in the next five…
Years ago, I angered some people by calling a new technology a “UFO”. Why did I do that, and why did it make some people mad? And finally, what does it have to do with network traffic and telco revenues? Read on. What’s the primary property of a UFO? I contend it’s “unknowability”. As I…
Could the cloud really become the network? That’s a question that many (including me) have asked over the last decade. When the view was “everything is moving to the cloud”, that would be an almost-inevitable outcome except for broadband access, but since I’ve rejected that universal-cloud theory from the first, and since I’ve reported that…
Andrew Lloyd Weber has a great line that describes tech these days. In the form I’ve heard it performed, it goes “You talk of truth? Is truth unchanging law? We all have truths—are mine the same as yours?” Leaving the question of whether truth is unchanging to philosophers, consider the next point, which is the…
One early point of application for AI in general, and AI agents in particular, is network/IT operations. In the last six months, 154 enterprises have told me their own interest in this area has increased dramatically, and the number who have adopted or say they will adopt AI in that role has doubled. What’s behind…
If a fusion of AI and digital twins is at least a convenient abstraction to use describing the relationship, does a metaverse figure in? If so, how? Could it be that what I’ve called the “metaverse of things” or MoT, is what the AI/digital-twin fusion is, and if not, what is MoT in this picture?…