AUGUST 2026 • ENTERPRISE DATA & AI BRIEF A year ago, nearly every conversation about artificial intelligence seemed to revolve around one question: Which jobs are going to disappear? Depending on who was speaking, the answer was either “almost none” or “you…
About a year ago, it was difficult to attend an AI conference, open LinkedIn, or read anything about technology without hearing the same prediction. Artificial intelligence was going to replace millions of workers. Entire professions were expected to disappear, and…
Your dashboards refresh in real time. Your models are accurate. And your organization still acts too late. The hardest problem in real-time AI decision making was never the data or the model — it was timing. I see this pattern…
That question has largely been answered. It does, and not because it’s ideal, but because it reflects how organizations actually operate: Federated data architecture is not a transitional phase, as much as we might want it to be. For most…
As I finished up my previous article on calculating the ROI and TCO of AI, I gave you the analysis of how to justify AI projects, but thought it prudent to give you the step by step process I believe…
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 for AI adoption. The foundation of…
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 inevitable doomsday when the…
Ifyou’re like most, security is at the forefront of your mind for yourorganization. You need the right tools and the right team to keep upwith the balance of increasing number of sophisticated threats and withsecurity teams being inundated with requests…
In some past blogs I’ve discussed Azure Data Box and how the Data Box family has expanded. Today I’ll talk about Azure Data Box Edge (in preview) and elaborate on the machine learning service that it provides in your premises with…