Mike Vizard

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), most organizations will have to make one of two choices. They can either invest in the technologies required to build their own AI platform or leverage one that has already been built. Verizon is betting most organizations will opt for the latter. Verizon this week launched Digital Customer […]

As part of an effort to enable organizations to send notifications on a global basis, Urban Airship today announced it has acquired Accengage, a provider of a rival notification platform that operates mainly in Europe. Urban Airship CEO Brett Caine says combining both platforms will make it simpler for organizations to manage digital customer engagement […]

The biggest inhibitor to pervasive adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in enterprise IT environments in 2019 may have little to do with the technology itself. Rather, as more governments around the world come to appreciate what can really be achieved using AI, committees are now actively studying how both new and existing legislation might be […]

Arm, which provides the processors widely employed in smartphones, announced today an Arm Retail offering that promises to enable retailers to transform the in-store shopping experience by applying algorithms to massive amounts of data in real time. Charlene Marini, vice president of the Internet of Things (IoT) Services Group at Arm, says Arm is combining […]

While interest in serverless computing frameworks is rising sharply, the risk associated with being locked into proprietary architectures or investing in a framework that ultimately dies on the vine due to a lack of industry support is a major concern for most IT organizations. To help alleviate those concerns, providers of cloud computing services and […]

As the rate at which applications are being either built on or shifted into the cloud accelerates, it’s become clear that IT organizations will need to more aggressively either develop new skills internally or recruit IT professionals that already have them. Recruiting that talent, however, is likely to be a major challenge as the number […]

Box and IBM today announced they are extending an existing partnership into the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Both companies have developed their own AI frameworks. In the case of Box, that framework comes in the form of a Box Skills framework that makes it simpler to apply AI to content management. IBM, meanwhile, has […]

Graphical processor units (GPUs) play a key role in artificial intelligence (AI) by accelerating the training of machine and deep learning algorithms employed to create an AI model. Given the cost of GPUs, most AI training today takes place in the cloud. But organizations that need to maintain independent control of their IT infrastructure are […]

Adobe today advanced its case for being at the center of digital business transformation initiatives by adding support for capturing images of government-issued identifications alongside electronic signatures. In addition, Adobe says it has integrated Adobe Sign with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent and ServiceNow HR Service Delivery applications used widely by human resources departments, and […]

The end of the year is usually a time when most organizations are either actively engaged in business planning for the next year or have just completed the process. Regardless of where they might be in the business planning process, just about everyone involved would agree that it was a painful. Most organizations still rely […]

A digital business transformation is arguably the most difficult endeavor any organization is likely to embark on. Each initiative invariably touches multiple business functions that historically have tended to operate in isolation from one another. IT leaders often find themselves trying to navigate competing agendas within their organization that directly conflict with one another. Rarely […]

Going into 2019, it’s apparent that a major challenge facing IT leaders will be to bring the cost of cloud computing under control. While cloud computing in theory reduces the cost of IT, it turns out that the operational complexity of supporting multiple cloud computing platforms alongside existing on-premises IT environments has become quite expensive. […]