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Since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022, AI has been greeted as a transformational game changer for businesses. However, nearly two years later, organizations’ use of AI is uneven. While some companies have successfully embraced AI, most are taking baby steps with it or still figuring out how to […]

AI Is Impacting Data Centers—and the Earth

This entry was posted in AI Data Center and tagged AI carbon footprint data center spending hyperscale servers on June 18, 2024 by Jack Rosenberger

What’s the size of your organization’s technical debt? Unfortunately, many IT leaders can’t answer this question accurately. Not only don’t many IT leaders know the gamut of their organization’s technical debt, but they struggle with knowing fully how it impacts their business. In addition, many IT leaders don’t have a […]

Coming to Grips with Technical Debt

This entry was posted in Big Data Cloud Data Center IT Management Networking Security Storage Virtualization and tagged Gartner hardware Info-Tech Research Group innovation ROI software on April 18, 2024 by Jack Rosenberger

Artificial intelligence has become so pervasive in today’s business climate that the rarer species is a technology that doesn’t utilize some form of AI. Indeed, AI itself is no longer a differentiating feature for new and existing applications and technologies, which is now leading organizations to focus their messaging on […]

Can AI Help Ease WFH Anxiety? The Remote Work Question

This entry was posted in AI Mobility and tagged AI work from home on March 13, 2024 by Charlene O'Hanlon

If you don’t think ransomware is one of the most serious criminal threats to your organization in 2024, you haven’t been paying attention. Ransomware was a $1.1 billion industry in 2023, and successful attacks inflicted brand, financial, and operational damage to nearly every type of organization, large, small, and middling. […]

6 Things You Need to Know About Ransomware in 2024

This entry was posted in Blog Security and tagged ransomware on March 6, 2024 by Jack Rosenberger

Analyses show a slow but steady increase in IT spending in 2024. However, how the money is being spent is the subject of debate. Following on our last blog, which noted research firm Forrester predicted a 5.5% increase in IT spending in 2024, data from Gartner and Enterprise Technology Research […]

More on IT Spending: A Rosy Second Half?

This entry was posted in AI Blog Cloud and tagged 2024 budgets artificial intelligence Enterprise Technology Research Gartner generative AI IT spending on February 14, 2024 by Charlene O'Hanlon

Today, generative AI is all the rage. In the news, it’s everywhere. As a result, the emergence of machine customers has probably not grabbed your attention as generative AI has. Machine customers are connected, increasingly smart devices that possess the ability to purchase goods and services for your organization. While […]

The Next Big Thing: Machine Customers

This entry was posted in AI Big Data and tagged AI machine customers on February 8, 2024 by Jack Rosenberger

After a few years of “growth at all costs” and the purchase of systems and services to accommodate such growth, the tech sector saw a slowdown in 2022 and 2023. That’s not news to anyone who makes a living building, buying, or selling technology—in other words, pretty much everyone. Recent […]

Tech Spending: Will We See a Rise in 2024?

This entry was posted in Blog Cloud Data Center Networking Security and tagged cloud cybersecurity financial services Forrester healthcare IT spending software tech refresh on January 25, 2024 by Charlene O'Hanlon

The swift and steady adoption of cloud technology has fundamentally changed the way organizations interact with data. It’s also led to data overload, as individuals and organizations alike have become less selective in what data they delete and what they hold on to (after all, cloud storage is infinite, right?). […]

Industry Clouds Are Rolling In

This entry was posted in Blog Cloud and tagged cloud services compliance composable highly regulated industries Industry Cloud Platforms vertical industries on January 17, 2024 by Charlene O'Hanlon

It’s a new year, which means many of us have made our New Year’s resolutions. And while our intentions are worthy—lose weight, stop smoking, eat less junk food—many times we unintentionally fall back into our familiar patterns, giving up on our resolutions because they’re too difficult, uncomfortable, or otherwise don’t […]

It’s Time to Get Proactive About Security

This entry was posted in Security and tagged Gartner Omdia proactive security security spending security threats on January 11, 2024 by Charlene O'Hanlon

The new year is upon us, and for many, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Outdated, inflexible systems and processes will be shown the door, ushering in a new way of working smarter, not harder. Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence, including generative AI, will continue to drive […]

2024 Trends: Better Business Through Generative AI

This entry was posted in AI Big Data Blog Networking Storage and tagged 2024 trends AI artificial intelligence Deloitte generative AI trends on January 3, 2024 by Charlene O'Hanlon