OK, call me a cynic, but I think that we tend to obsess about singular solutions to complex problems. Maybe it’s just a human need, or maybe it’s easier these days to present a single story instead of an exploration of some complex set of requirements and even-more-complex set of possible solutions. In any event,…
Starting with the tech planning cycle that some enterprises start in late fall, and running into February of 2023, I got for the first time hard indication from enterprises that they were not only putting cloud projects under greater scrutiny, but even cutting back on spending for projects already approved and deployed. Public cloud revenue…
There are surely people out there who continue to believe that network operators, meaning telcos in particular, can catapult to profit growth on the back of traditional voice and connection services. There are also people who believe the earth is flat and that politics is a civilized tension between intelligent debaters. In assessment of profit…
There doesn’t seem to be much good news for tech companies these days. The fact that PC sales are expected to have fallen sharply in the first quarter, with Apple estimated to have lost 40%, sure seems ominous. Is all of tech going to be under pressure? What’s behind this, and when will it end?…
There is no question that the most expensive part of networking is the access piece. Move inward and you quickly reach a point where hundreds of thousands of customers can be aggregated onto a single set of resources, but out in access-land it’s literally every home or business for itself. Not only that, selling a…
Is “dominance” the same as “monopolistic”? That’s a question that many regulators are wrestling with, and sometimes they’re also wrestling with lobbying and nationalism. In the UK, Ofcom (the UK regulator) has been looking at public cloud services, and recently referred Amazon and Microsoft to the investigatory body in the UK (the US equivalent of…
OK, I guess it’s time to ask (and of course, try to answer) the question “How many metaverses are there, anyway?” It’s clear when you read about the metaverse concept, and also watch a growing number of metaverse-related commercials, that the answer is greater than one. How much greater, and what’s creating both the diversity…
The relationship between buyers and sellers isn’t usually hostile or adversarial, but it’s naturally wary, particularly on the buyer side. Sellers make money by making buyers spend money, and while that spending can often be offset by benefits, there are times when it isn’t. One such time is when changes in pricing policies set by…
I’m happy to say that we’ve had 44 end users of technology products join in our program to allow tech users to email us with comments and questions, under a promise of anonymity unless they release us to use a comment. These users are spread over 15 vertical markets and three continents. All but 5…
What’s the right model for AI-based operations, or AIOps? There are obviously a lot of different “operations” AI could be used in, so does the optimum model depend on the specific mission? Or, just maybe, is there at least a set of guidelines that would cut across all the missions? That would enable us to…