Enterprises are obviously getting concerned about cloud costs, and according to those I’ve talked with, the concerns are greatest because of usage pricing. While it’s possible to get an IaaS instance on a fixed price, things like scalability and even traffic can introduce at least a usage-price component to the picture. It’s this added dimension…
What could be better, after talking about the pitfalls of cloud-native development, to talk about how cloud-native and 5G are locked in a deadly hype embrace? There are a couple of stories to reference; one that says the 5G emperor has no clothes, and a second that asks whether 5G can really offer an alternative…
I’ve already blogged about my own experience with the wildly popular ChatGPT, but that analysis opens a question that was also raised recently online, which is whether ChatGPT could be a threat to search in general and Google/Alphabet’s revenue model in particular. So could it? The answer is related to some of the points I…
Enterprises have been telling me that they’re finding the cloud to be a lot more expensive than they’d expected. That has a lot of potential consequences, not the least of which being the risk to cloud provider revenues or the risk to the careers of a lot of developers. What’s really interesting to me is…
Spectrum is expensive, and as this Light Reading article points out, anything that promises additional capacity for a given chunk of spectrum sounds good. The current focus is orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, which some are promoting as a fundamental technology for (gasp!) 6G. But is sounding good enough; is this yet another way…
I doubt there’s anyone in tech, and perhaps any parent, who hasn’t heard of ChatGPT. It’s often characterized as a “robot” that can do your homework, run your business, and so forth. I’ve said in the past that I believed its responses weren’t all that sophisticated, but I didn’t offer any specific proof. Now I…
There may be subtle signs of problems in earnings reports, and I think that’s the case with those of Verizon and AT&T for the 4th calendar quarter of 2022. I covered the reports broadly in our first TechsRay podcast, but one specific point needs a bit more development, and that’s the business services trend both…
Metaverse-wise, I’ve got good news and bad news, and they’re actually the same news. We seem to have gotten some momentum up for an open metaverse concept, and there’s both a Linux Foundation and World Economic Forum framework being put into place. That’s good because we need an open metaverse, but bad because collective processes…
I doubt that there are many who believe things are coming up roses for the network operators globally. The challenges with declining profit per bit have been recounted by just about everyone, including operators themselves. Wall Street is getting antsy regarding the sector, and a growing number of analysts are expecting some major changes. Like…
Well, here’s a surprise. Four major European telcos (DT, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone) plan to create a joint venture that’s aimed at attempting to address their “disintermediation” and “profit-per-bit” problems. EU operators have already asked the EU to approve traffic subsidies for telcos by the OTT giants. Is this latest JV an indication that the…