Over the past 15 years working in the area of cloud computing, I’ve had a front row seat to its incredible evolution and the transformative impact it has had on how businesses operate and deliver value. It’s been amazing to watch enterprises of all sizes get more and more...
Continue reading...Sustainable, Observable, Secure
Check out this recent webinar where Lucy Drinkwater at Storm Technologies and I discuss the importance of sustainability, observability and security in the space of multi-cloud computing, and how VMware Aria can help!
Continue reading...A Clarion Call for Data Centre Sustainability
How VMware Aria helps organisations achieve their environmental goals With scorching temperatures and devastating wildfires, July 2023 has etched a grim milestone: the world’s hottest day on record. The urgency of the climate crisis has reached unparalleled heights, demanding immediate and resolute action. The outlook can seem bleak, but...
Continue reading...A very lazy interview with ChatGPT
ChatGPT is becoming more interesting by the day, with novel use cases popping up all over the place. There’s the guy who tried to use ChatGPT as his lawyer in the courtroom (sadly, jail time was threatened if he did). In healthcare, the NHS are already exploring the impact...
Continue reading...Meet DALL·E 2, OpenAI’s artificially intelligent artist.
As someone highly interested in both technology and art, I’m always interested in where those things intercept. Imagine how I excited I was today, when I finally made my way through the waitlist and got access to the DALL·E 2 system! As per the OpenAI website, “DALL·E 2 is...
Continue reading...DevOps for AI Apps (Part 2)
Welcome back to the second of this two-part piece on DevOps for AI Apps. In part one, we explored the differences between regular apps and AI apps, drilled into some of the added complexity and thought about the benefits of adopting a DevOps methodology for enterprise AI app projects....
Continue reading...DevOps for AI Apps (Part 1)
Looking through various recent studies on the success of AI Apps for enterprises, It seems many businesses have developed AI Apps, but the apps only very rarely make it into production. Challenges seem to come from everywhere, from infrastructure and capacity, to skills scarcity, to the lack of automation...
Continue reading...Log Insight – AIOps with vRealize (Part 2)
The Challenge with Logs If you consider your time working with technology, reviewing log files must be one of the most daunting tasks. It certainly is for me, line after line of output messages, that may or may not be readable to a human being, searching for the few words, which hopefully bring clarity to a...
Continue reading...Cloud Technologist Show – E4 – Artificial Intelligence
In this show I get over-excited about AI/ML (sorry Martijn and Mandy!) We have a great discussion around A.I. in general and also A.I. in the world of Data center and Cloud. Mandy shares her views on A.I. in consumerism (Tesla, thermostats, chat-bots) whilst Martijn ponders the often tricky...
Continue reading...Observe, Engage and Act AIOps with vRealize (Part 1)
The Need for Intelligence In today’s age of mass digital transformation, it’s not always the strongest, or largest businesses that survive and thrive. It’s often the ones who can adapt the quickest to the change in markets. If you were running a bricks-and-mortar only store pre-COVID, when lock-down hit, you needed to either adopt technology very quickly, or risk obsolescence. It didn’t matter if you...
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