Tag: artificial intelligence
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The Five Barriers to Enterprise AI Adoption
AI is changing the role of the developer, shifting work from coding toward agent orchestration and higher-level architecture. While not the only area seeing results, developer productivity is where AI’s traction is most visible and measurable, particularly among individual developers, small teams, and greenfield shops free of legacy systems and layered processes. Enterprise adoption is…
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DeepSeek on the Horizon: Distillation, Defiance, and Clusters in Inner Mongolia
The industry is sitting on the edge of its collective seat as it awaits the release of DeepSeek V4 – which some are expecting next week. DeepSeek, you may remember, was the AI model that debuted a little over a year ago, rocking the AI world and tanking the entire market (not to mention giving…
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Infrastructure Is Eating the World: Circonomics and the Cult of “Bigger Is Better”
TL;DR: The market’s trillion-dollar AI boom is built on one assumption: whoever spends most on infrastructure wins. DeepSeek briefly exposed how fragile that belief is, and how quickly the system could unravel if it’s wrong. It could happen again. On the last Monday of January, markets lost over a trillion dollars in value. Nvidia alone…
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ChatGPT-5’s Short-Lived Simplicity: One Week of Clean Design
About a month ago I wrote about my frustration with ChatGPT-4o’s pull-down menu and its mess of mismatched models. I ended my post saying that I hoped ChatGPT 5 would address this. Last Thursday my prayers were answered. The pull-down was gone and with it the hodgepodge of models. In its place there was one…
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You Can’t Build an AI Strategy Without a Data Strategy
At their foundation, AI systems are massive data engines. Training, deploying, and operating AI models requires handling enormous datasets—and the speed at which data moves between storage and compute can make or break performance. In many organizations, this data movement becomes the biggest constraint. Even with better algorithms, companies frequently point to limitations in data…
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Why Storage Matters in Every Stage of the AI Pipeline
One of the companies that impressed me at AI Infrastructure Field Days was Solidigm. Solidigm, which was spun out of Intel’s storage and memory group, is a manufacturer of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) optimized for AI and data-intensive workloads. What I particularly appreciated about Solidigm’s presentation was, rather than diving directly into speeds and feeds,…
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Rethinking Monitoring: How Catchpoint Shifts Focus to the End User
At Cloud Field Day, I sat in on a presentation from Catchpoint, a company focused on digital experience monitoring. Their platform delivers real-time insights into the performance and availability of applications, services, and networks. What sets Catchpoint apart is how they’re reframing observability—moving away from infrastructure-centric monitoring and placing the focus squarely on end-user experience.…
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Fortinet CNAPP Review: AI-Powered Cloud Security and Composite Threat Detection
At Cloud Field Day 22, cybersecurity leader Fortinet shared its vision for managing the growing complexity of cloud-native environments. Their focus: enabling security teams to move faster, reduce alert fatigue, and make smarter decisions using AI-driven threat detection and automation. Navigating Modern Cloud Security Challenges In traditional data centers, firewalls protected predictable network chokepoints. But…
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How DeepSeek R1 Triggered a $1 Trillion NASDAQ Drop and caught the AI Industry by surprise
Note (April 2025):This post was originally written in early February, just after DeepSeek’s R1 model sent shockwaves through the AI world. Since then, the model has been downloaded thousands of times, sparked forks and spinoffs, and raised serious questions about the future of proprietary AI. The original post has been lightly updated for clarity and…
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Precision Developer Editions 7530/7730 now online — Welcome the power pair
Not long ago I introduced the next gen of Project Sputnik’s Linux-based Dell Precision Mobile workstations: the 3530, 5530, 7530 and the 7730. At that time the 3530 was available for purchase. Today I’m happy to announce that the uber-powerful 7530 and 7730 are now live on dell.com Dell Precision 7530 Mobile Workstation, developer edition…