What do enterprises think their network should be? I can’t say that I get much in the way of explicit comments on this, other than the expected toss-offs like “cheap”, “reliable”, and “secure”. Few enterprises really think about how network technology should evolve, and fewer offer spontaneous comments on the topic. However, I’ve been looking…
We may be ignoring one of the most important fields of computing, spatial computing, even though many of the IoT, AI, digital twin, and AR/VR applications explore pieces of the field. You can argue that recent progress in the convergence of IT and business processes is really related to spatial computing, so it makes sense…
One interesting thing I’ve noticed over the last couple months is a growing sense among enterprises that they’ve taken root in some obsolescent technical paradigms. We’ve used networking and computing in business since the 1950s, and a surprising amount of what we do and how we do it would be familiar to professionals of that…
If enterprises (and I) are correct, the future success of AI is very likely to depend not on enormous generative AI intelligence models, but on relatively contained and probably hierarchically organized agents. I believe that these agents will be “deep learning” models, some perhaps rising to the scope of an LLM but many being much…
One of the problems with hyped technologies is excessive breadth. Hype is a form of mass hysteria, and to achieve it you need masses, which means you tend to generalize to increase the chances a given theme will intercept interest profiles and get clicks. The problem is that there’s often a specialized piece of a…
What’s the question that defines 2025? No, it’s not about AI or the cloud. It’s not even about technology in a direct way, but about what’s real and how we decide just what that is. What is reality? That’s one of those important-but-imponderable questions that comes up regularly, and in this case has been debated…
In it’s New Year’s Eve email blast, SdxCentral’s tag subject was “Cisco’s eventful 2024”. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but the phrase connects to a historical-philosophical concept “The Hero in History” by Sidney Hook. Hook differentiated between people who made things happen (“event-making”) and those things happened to (“eventful”), and I…
What’s in store for the cloud? That may be a hard question to answer because there’s a pretty significant gap between what’s currently happening in the cloud and what we think/hear is happening. Still, I’ve gotten comments from 167 enterprises in 2H24 that could shed some light on things. Some are direct views, and others…
What’s the asset of the future, the potential determinant of success for practically everyone in tech? No, it’s not AI. It’s not 5G or 6G or WiFi 7, nor is it fiber or quantum. What is it, then? Real estate. An astonishing number of critical network and IT assets have one common element—they need to…
There are plenty of reasons to get concerned, really concerned, about what’s going on in AI. There seems to be a growing disconnect between AI press releases and stories, and what enterprises are telling me. That disconnect seems linked, as is often the case, with the concept of “washing” announcements with mentions of new technology…