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Your Intellyx Cortex for January 3, 2025: | |
JE makes his analyst predictions for 2025 and review's Eric's 2024 picks, 2025 Intellyx Digital Innovator award winneers, event reviews from AWS re:Invent and TBM, plus new thought leadership for JUXT, Cloud Foundry, BMC Software, Conviva, GenAI governance, news and more. Subscribe for free today. Share with your peers and friends, they can subscribe to Cortex/BrainCandy newsletters for free. | |
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by Jason English, in Cortex Newsletter | |
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I love think time. For every useful unit of actual hands-on-keys work time I spend writing thought leadership pieces, or time on briefing and advisory calls with innovative vendors, there must be a corresponding amount of time away from the computer to realign my thinking and grasp the connections between technology categories and their value to end customers.
From the inside of different software vendors over the years, I can recall several examples of founders and engineers, and even myself benefiting mightily from think time—through inspirations that arrive away from the computer—on dog walks, at dinner, or while listening to music. And I can recall tougher times, working for companies that were in a state of constant flight, pivoting wildly from one idea to the next with no time to think at all.
As humans, we never expected to be as fully engaged as we are now, with per-worker productivity at an all time high, a pocket supercomputer that constantly nags us for attention wherever we go, and some AI coming in to scoop up our ‘think time’ by repeating our collective thoughts back at us.
But I wouldn’t let that short-change my non-AI-generated think time for these predictions for 2025. Here we go!
Reflecting on Eric’s picks for 2024As tradition indicates, first I will need to respond to my esteemed CTO-whispering analyst colleague Eric Newcomer’s predictions from last year. Here’s my take on those.
Database Convergence. Eric was 100% spot on here—just about every known database and data lake vendor rebranded itself with an assortment of once-specialized capabilities for transaction and analytics readiness, or vector capabilities, or distributed SQL, with massive scalability and/or cost savings advantages, in both licensed and DBaaS licensing models.
Walking the floor at AWS re:Invent you couldn’t help but notice how many vendors were now “the ultimate home for AI data” with AI query bolt-ons, in addition to AWS’s own RAG and ML offerings to maintain parity with other hyperscaler services from Azure and GCS. To make a decision in this confusing data environment, buyers will need to look closely at what active use cases customers are employing.
AI In the Enterprise – Rise of Best of Breed. Mixed bag, I’d say this prediction was about 50% right, as in 2024 the hype of generative AI was matched by the equivalently hyped rise of agentic AI (basically, a fancy new term for AI bots with some degree of autonomy) ... [Read the whole Cortex on Intellyx.com.] | |
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Regulations and laws governing the collection and use of personal data are getting stricter every year. Penalties for infractions are growing, and becoming more and more common all the time.
A significant aspect of compliance is how the laws are enforced, and how organizations respond to issues, incidents, and breaches.
Internal audit teams are frequently tasked with ensuring the right controls are in place so that organizations avoid compliance and security issues. Regulators also frequently perform audits and checks to ensure organizations are implementing the correct safeguards. And of course if an incident occurs, such as it often does... [Read the whole BrainBlog here.] | |
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Industry experts discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI can help organizations solve mainframe operational challenges like the loss of tribal knowledge, faster onboarding of new talent, managing cost and capacity, and more. Intellyx Director and Principal Analyst Jason English leads a panel including BMC Area Vice President of Product Management Mark Banwell, R&D Solutions Architect Anthony DiStauro, and Solutions Director Jeremy Hamilton. entire UI ... [Listen/download the podcast here.] | |
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In this series, my colleague Jason Bloomberg and I have defined quality of experience’ (QoE), discussed operationalizing telemetry data for QoE, and explored the dynamics of Time-State technology. All of which should help us break out of traditional thinking when optimizing how our critical customer-facing applications perform.
Unfortunately, all of the time-state telemetry data and quality-of-experience optima in the world can still produce suboptimal results, unless we can understand our customer’s intentions and impressions during the moments they are taking action. Subjective indicators about the customer’s state of mind make it very hard to extrapolate useful customer experience metrics.
Given this difficulty, it would be tempting to continue measuring the success of our customer-facing application in terms of concrete results, such as reduced customer churn, increased signups and sales revenue, or the old gold standard of high NPS ... [Read the whole BrainBlog here.] | |
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AMSTELVEEN, NETHERLANDS, December 18, 2024 — In today’s confusing and messy enterprise software market, innovative technology solutions that realize real customer results are hard to come by. As an industry analyst firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the disruptive vendors that support it, Intellyx interacts with numerous innovators in the enterprise IT marketplace.
To honor these vendors, Intellyx established the Intellyx Digital Innovator Awards, now in its fourth year, as they celebrate their 10th anniversary since founding in June 2014.
Intellyx bestows this award on every vendor who makes it through Intellyx’s rigorous briefing selection process and delivers a successful briefing that results in coverage that year ... [Read the big news here.] | |
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AI has impacted search engine optimization (SEO) for years, as Google, Bing, and other search engines have long leveraged AI in their search algorithms to understand user intent and to display relevant results.
Today’s SEO practitioners are also using AI to uncover relevant keywords that will optimize the search results for the content they produce.
Combine this AI-driven keyword strategy with generative AI’s ability to create passable marketing content, and it would seem that an all-AI strategy for generating and optimizing such content would be a straightforward proposition ... [Read the whole BrainDump here.] | |
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Attending AWS re:Invent 2024 was like watching a forest grow and decay at 10,000-times time-lapse speed. With each major breakthrough release falling, Amazon Web Services Inc. might crush a wide swath of products, including a few of its own, while sprouting even more new startups in its wake.
Just pick out any one announcement such as AWS Bedrock Data Automation — which could overshadow a few dozen intelligent document processing and business workflow solutions, at least in the view of AWS customers that aren’t already automating that kind of work.
Indeed, while AWS Bedrock was being infused as the new substrate for multiple artificial intelligence models, large language model, retrieval-augmented generation and so on that will someday run everything, the real progress will still be among vendors and enterprises making cloud infrastructure better support application innovation and operations. AI is just today’s bleeding edge, driving the advancement of scalable and interoperable cloud architectures, massive resilient and secure data infrastructures, and development tools and technologies that are ready for change ... [Read the SiliconANGLE article here.] | |
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DevOps adoption is pretty much done. So what’s next? Speakers and exhibitors at the recent DevOpsCon New York conference made it clear that DevOps is moving on to new challenges, most of which build on the DevOps foundation.
New challenges include DevSecOps, improving resilience and safety procedures, reducing the time to resolve an incident, introducing AI assistants, and realigning organizational roles and responsibilities to better implement the DevOps methodology ... [Read the SiliconANGLE article here.] | |
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As software continues to ‘eat the world,’ TBM helps developers validate their work’s impact and ensure they’re building what matters to the business.
Bridging the gap between business and IT continues to be a challenge, but as mentioned at its recent annual conference in San Diego, the Technology Business Management (TBM) Council thinks they might have the answer.
If so, this is a big win for organizations generally and for IT staff in particular, including developers who want to know they are working on what the organization really values ... [Read the article here.] | |
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In my last BrainBlog for Cloud Foundry, I reviewed the history of the organization from its birth within VMware in 2009 to its current incarnation as a development platform for cloud native applications.
In the intervening years, Cloud Foundry evolved from a virtual machine (VM)-centric platform to a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that the Cloud Foundry Foundation re-architected for containers running on Kubernetes.
Re-architecting for Kubernetes, however, is not the same thing as being Kubernetes-native.
The Cloud Foundry team understands the difference. To this end, they rolled out Korifi, a Kubernetes-native version of its popular Cloud Foundry platform ... [Read the article here.] | |
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Intellyx bestows this prestigious award on every vendor who makes it through Intellyx’s rigorous briefing selection process and delivers a successful briefing that results in coverage that year. We’d like to congratulate and thank those leading-edge vendors who are sharing the word of this accomplishment ... [Read the article here.] | |
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The Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 global thought leaders and influencers on Robotics for 2024. | |
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Bitcoin is frequently portrayed as the chosen currency of crooks. There is no doubt that criminal activity has been associated with the Bitcoin ecosystem, but I would argue that cash is still king in the underworld. Jason Bloomberg writes in his recent Forbes article [1]: “Professional criminals’ number one requirement is a secure, anonymous way to move and store money, and Bitcoin fits the bill perfectly.” There’s a really big problem with that statement: it is simply and provably not true. It displays ignorance in how Bitcoin really works. In fact, Bitcoin is a potential nightmare for criminals. If they want to minimize getting caught, they’ll stick with cash and the legacy banking system ... [Read the article here.] | |
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REDEFINING DEVELOPER ROLE: PROMPT ENGINEERINGDevelopers will struggle with the change in their job descriptions, but there will always be demand for qualified developers — only now they’ll be spending more of their time on prompt engineering. Jason Bloomberg, Managing Director, Intellyx [Read the article here.] | |
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Eric Newcomer said: “Yellowbrick’s OpenShift support gives organizations the flexibility to deploy on private as well as on public and hybrid clouds while maintaining the high-quality engineering characteristics of their SQL platform. OpenShift extends Yellowbrick’s flexibility for running AI workloads, real-time analytics, and data warehousing with the same cost effective high-performance and security characteristics wherever their customers need to run them now and, in the future.” ... [Read the article here.] | |
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The watchword for log analysis in 2025 will be scale. More sources of logs, increased quantity of log data, and greater emphasis on real-time log analysis all require increasing scale. Organizations can no longer afford any data tier other than hot — and they will all be looking for less expensive ways to keep all the log data hot all the time.
Jason Bloomberg, Managing Director, Intellyx ...[Read the article here.] | |
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In September 2024. Intellyx Analyst Jason Bloomberg wrote, “Both its storage and compute offerings have passed the network tipping point, as sufficient participants have offered their excess capacity to meet all of Storj’s customers’ needs. The company is now crossing the chasm, as sufficient early adopters have proven its model, leading to an explosion of early majority customers.” ... [Read the article here.] | |
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“Code generation will continue to improve, impacting all tiers of modern applications. Expect to be able to build a full-stack containerized app from a single prompt.” – Jason Bloomberg of Intellyx ... [Read the article here.] | |
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How to get a handle on generative AI governance | SiliconANGLE
Author: Jason Bloomberg(Saturday, November 30, 2024) “The way out of this conundrum is straightforward: Implement AI governance – not to slow down innovation, but rather to remove roadblocks to adoption of gen AI in ways that are safe, legal and compliant with corporate policies.” ... [Read the article here.] | |
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Let’s say you have some development skills. You can code a business application that calls APIs and talks to the SAP backend systems. You need pro-code tools to get your job done.
Or, let’s say you are not oe of those developers, but you have business skills. You know what customers need, and you understand the business process that gets kicked off with each web transaction. You need low-code tools to get the job done with automation, while abstracting away both paperwork and technical complexity.
If you are in one of the abovementioned groups, then stay with me here. If you want to stay ahead of the market and build better applications, faster, maybe you should look to mid-code tools to advance your career ... [Read the article here.] | |
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