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The Evolving Case for AI: Justifying AI Investments with ROI and TCO in 2025

When I first wrote about justifying AI investments in my book, I focused on how businesses could calculate Return on Investment (ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to make a strong business case...

Copilots are revolutionizing business… so why are IT leaders hesitant?

Parlor tricks, Smoke and Mirrors, Inaccurate, Hallucinating, Too Expensive… Useless!?!? Yes, these are comments I’ve heard from IT leaders when talking about various Copilot capabilities...

The Current State and Future of AI: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of modern technology, influencing industries and societies in ways we could only dream of a few decades ago. From personalized recommendations on...

AI Will Take Your Job!? A Deeper Dive Beyond the Headlines

That’s right, unless you live under a rock, you can’t escape this rhetoric, but is it true? The media certainly would like to make you think so, wouldn’t they? I’m a bit less emphatic about the...

THE EASY PATH TO AI

The explosion of interest in AI due to the recent success of ChatGPT, the state-of-the-art natural language generation model that can write anything from essays to poems to code, is no surprise...

3 KEY DIFFERENCES IN CHATGPT AND AZURE OPENAI

In this vlog I discuss some misconceptions around ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI, to include: Who owns ChatGPT, OpenAI, and how Microsoft got involved Security and privacy concerns about Azure OpenAI and...

HERE COMES YOUR COPILOT

The new age of large language models (LLMs), and the ability to accelerate various forms of novel thought is being cast upon us at a rapid pace. Just like an airplane copilot, we are seeing an...

AZURE COGNITIVE SERVICES

AI solutions are exploding, and Azure has the most complete offering of any cloud provider! Watch this video to get started with our API based Cognitive Services in Azure and a sample architecture of...

What is HTAP in Azure

Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing, or HTAP, is an advanced database capability that allows for both types of workloads to be performed without one impacting the performance of the other...