New Opportunities Today’s IT customer is managing a growing array of pressures—an accelerating need for digital transformation, increasing complexity in technological offerings and innovation, and the market demand to be fast, nimble and flexible. Accompanied by an uncertain macro-economic environment, these pressures only intensify their need for trusted support and expertise, creating an enormous opportunity…
Remember Big Data? Even the name seemed bigger than life, because it was usually capitalized. When people first started talking about it, we had the “three Vs of Big Data,” which were volume, velocity and variety. Then the “five Vs,” adding veracity and value to the prior three. Then the “seven Vs,” with variability and…
Today, the AWS Panorama Appliance is generally available to all of you. The AWS Panorama Appliance is a computer vision (CV) appliance designed to be deployed on your network to analyze images provided by your on-premises cameras. Every week, I read about new and innovative use cases for computer vision. Some customers are using CV…
The year 2020 took companies boldly beyond most visions for digital transformation. In the blink of an eye, supporting a remote team became the focus and priority of every IT administrator. And it’s our job to help. As a product manager, I’m always looking for ways to improve the support experience for IT admins. What…
Back in 2019 I told you about AWS Data Exchange and showed you how to Find, Subscribe To, and Use Data Products. Today, you can choose from over 3600 data products in ten categories: In my introductory post I showed you how could subscribe to data products and then download the data sets into an…
The edge is not a new place, but it is garnering lots of attention, especially when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI). In fact, AI is the number one workload for the edge, according to Moor Insights & Strategy in the newly published paper, “Delivering the AI-Enabled Edge with Dell Technologies.” The paper also points…
Michael Dell has the kind of confidence that comes with being the only founder leading a major global technology firm today. It’s the quiet confidence of a visionary who for nearly 40 years has focused fearlessly on the future and has made the big bets required to repeatedly reinvent the company that bears his name. Dell recounts the journey in his memoir…
The edge is fast becoming the next major business and technology frontier. Phrases like “we expect the most growth at the edge,” “gain insights at the edge” and “monetize the edge” have become quite common to hear. And the continued expansion of smart monitoring technologies at almost every endpoint from retail, to traffic lights, to…
Imagine it’s October 2050 and a school class is on a Cybersecurity Awareness Month field trip at the local museum. Suddenly, a student asks his teacher “what’s that?” staring at some strange combination of letters, symbols and numbers. “Oh, that’s a password,” the teacher says. “Your parents used them to access their devices and applications…
The transition to consuming IT as a service is accelerating rapidly across all industries. Paying for the services and infrastructure you need when you need it is a game changer for organizations that want to reduce upfront expenditures and ongoing maintenance for the infrastructure they need to run their business. APEX Cloud Services with VMware…