For most of the past decade, memory was the quiet line item in a server quote. Processors drew the attention, and DRAM simply came along for the ride. That arrangement has ended. Memory and flash now account for a far larger share of what a server costs, and in many configurations they have overtaken the […]
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Every team has played the same frustrating game. Someone needs last quarter’s pricing deck, so they type a few keywords into a search bar and get back 400 results, none of them right. Then they message three coworkers, wait an hour, and finally find the file buried in a folder called “Misc_Final_v2.” AI-powered search is […]
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Early in my career, the phrase “operating system” referred to something quite specific: the software layer that sat between hardware and applications, allocating resources and ensuring that each component did its work in an orderly fashion. Today I find the term increasingly useful as a description of something broader. In the modern enterprise, workflow automation […]
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Security teams have spent years hardening operating systems, applications and networks. Attackers, being rational, have looked for softer ground. Increasingly they have found it beneath the operating system, in the firmware that initializes a server before any security software has a chance to load. Firmware compromise is particularly troublesome because it is persistent. Reinstalling the […]
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When I was in college, my team kept a shared folder of game film, scouting notes, and practice plans. By senior year it held thousands of files, and only our assistant coach truly knew where anything lived. When she took a job across the country, that folder became a black box overnight. I think about […]
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For most of the past two years, enterprise generative AI has been largely conversational. A user asks a question, and a model produces an answer. That is useful, but it is also limited. The answer must still be read, interpreted and acted upon by a person. AI agents represent a meaningful shift. An agent does […]
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Over the past two years, I have observed a familiar pattern in organizations of almost every size. A small team builds a generative AI prototype. It performs impressively in a demonstration. Senior leadership is enthusiastic, and a budget is approved. Then, some months later, the project is quietly still a pilot, serving a handful of […]
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The demo was polished, the references were glowing, and the price looks reasonable. Then the contract arrives, and the details that decide whether this purchase pays off or becomes a problem are buried in the fine print. Before you sign, press on these seven questions. 1. What is the true total cost? Start with the […]
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Ask any manager where time disappears in their organization and approvals will feature prominently in the answer. A purchase request waits for a signature. A software license sits in someone’s inbox. A contract exception circulates by email until someone remembers to chase it. Each individual delay may seem minor, but collectively they slow the business […]
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Every infrastructure team eventually faces the same question: should we keep running these servers, or replace them? The instinct to extend hardware life is understandable. Servers that still work feel like assets already paid for. Yet the true cost of running older equipment is often higher than it appears on the balance sheet. The calculation […]
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Most of what a company knows isn’t sitting in a database. It’s in slide decks, meeting notes, proposals, design files, and emails with attachments. Analysts often estimate that around 80 percent of business data is unstructured, and for years that data has been hard to put to work. Generative AI changes the math. These models […]
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