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srufolo1
7/11/2017 5:22:45 PM
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Event-Driven IT a Priority for CIOs
"But you can't capitalize on the business moment if you don't first recognize the convergence of events and the digital business opportunity."
I believe EDA will help CIOs recognize the convergence of events and digital business opportunities, which willl hasten enterprises' digital transformation.
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I hadn't heard of EDA before this. I was hoping that Ms. Thomas would get back to me on the role that service providers would play in this area, but she hasn't so far.
DHagar
7/11/2017 6:04:23 PM
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@Mike, I have not heard that time either, but I have seen its development applied to public safety and the need for "real-time" awareness of assets, geolocations, etc.
Very interesting!
Don't you believe this will further build a case as well for the value of SDN and NFV? It all is beginning to take shape around new designs.
Also, the question becomes, will CIO's stay on top of this or miss the signs?
DHagar
7/11/2017 6:01:19 PM
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@srufolo1 - I agree - it will broaden their horizons and potentially change their perspective into more of a platform and enterprise design. This can be extremely beneficial.
srufolo1
7/12/2017 8:19:55 AM
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Right. Is EDA a tool for businesses to gain market insight so that they can maximize their opportunities and bottom-lines, or is it a company that provides that service? I was also somewhat unclear on that.
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@DHagar, I agree now that SDN is moving towards more customer-facing applications and services instead of just infrastructure.
I did get an email reply from Gartner's Anne Thomas. She said that EDA operates on the application layer while service providers typically deal with infrastructure. I can see her point but I think service providers (CenturyLink, AT&T, Verizon, etc.) are starting to focus more on applications such as virtual firewalls, uCPE and SD-WAN. And using SDN/NFV to do so, back to Deborah's point.
Thomas says partnerships are perhaps the biggest role that service providers can play in regards to EDA>
Here's a quote from her: "Service providers can exploit the EDA Copernican shift and grow their business by developing partnerships with system integrators and cloud providers with an event-centric application modernization practice."
dcawrey
7/12/2017 2:23:51 PM
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Never heard of EDA until now.
Sounds promising. What I got from this article is that EDA is a way to make systems more flexible and efficient. Sounds pretty familiar.
DHagar
7/12/2017 5:20:57 PM
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@dcawrey, good point. There clearly are patterns that are starting to develop - that are drivers transforming the industry. I imagine there will continue to be new labels as we discover new applications.
DHagar
7/12/2017 5:19:15 PM
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@Mike, thanks for clarification. That is an excellent review of the developments in play.
I totally agree with your assessment service providers developing greater value through applications. I think the lines will continue to blur; particularly with the leading service providers you identify. I believe it will be more "solutions" driven, solving the customer's problems.
DHagar
7/12/2017 5:16:18 PM
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@srufolo1, it is for companies to use. It creates a new focus that requires a more enterprise-wide capability to capture data and integrate for more effective decisioin making in reducing risk, managing resources, and optimizing results - all positive opportunities and business use cases for service providers to deliver enterprise-wide and service platforms with new value.
srufolo1
7/12/2017 10:13:49 PM
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@DHagar Thanks for the explanation. Service providers and enterprises can definitely benefit from this.
mhhf1ve
7/13/2017 10:47:47 AM
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This sounds like another way of saying automation is going to drive more businesses? Companies will set up triggers based on data and analytics.. and then automated bots will try to nudge employees towards growth goals when those triggers are flipped.
Ariella
7/13/2017 1:50:08 PM
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@mhhf1ve I should think that is very much a part of the automation strategy.
DHagar
7/13/2017 2:11:11 PM
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mhhf1ve, interesting perspective. It clearly will be supportive of autonomous technology, but I think it can be an extended hybrid as well of artificial intelligence with "smarter systems" designed by CIO's and business users.
dcawrey
7/13/2017 2:43:34 PM
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@mhhf1ve That sounds ideal in theory, but I'm going to guess it is going to take a lot more to pull off in practice.
But does it sound like where we are going? Yeah, it does.
mhhf1ve
7/13/2017 6:54:10 PM
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> "But does it sound like where we are going? Yeah, it does."
Yup. More and more "opportunities" are going to be identified by algorithms, I think. Because human intuition may be just too slow.. or it may not transfer well from person to person. An algorithm will be loyal and stay with the company for as long as its useful....
We'll still need some human intuition.. hopefully.. :P
elizabethv
7/14/2017 8:28:56 AM
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@mhhf1ve - I think some automation, like you'd previously mentioned is a good thing. Maybe humans tend to be a little self-absorbed in nature and even managers who should be focused on employee growth don't think of everything they might be able to. Still, I'd like to hold true to what a boss of mine always liked to remind us all, "You're smarter than the computer." Given some customer service issues I've had of late, I think we could all do to remember that.
dcawrey
7/16/2017 3:24:55 PM
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@mhhf1ve A lot is going to be discovered with analytics, I have no doubt about that.
Still, it's early days. That can be exciting to consider. Machine learning has a long way to go, and it's going to take AI going to the next level before we let computers make decisions.
JohnBarnes
7/17/2017 4:43:09 PM
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mhhf1ve,
You're reminding me that I need to finish up another piece for another site, regarding the ways in which machine intelligence is beginning to develop something that looks very much like "intuition". So far, although some parts of human mentation are not yet duplicated and surpassed on machines, there has not been any convincing demonstration that anything people can do with their brains and minds can't eventually be done better by machines with their processors and software (other than "BUT I DON'T WANT IT TO BE!" which is still convincing to some humanists.)
(We'll probably keep using quote marks around "machine intuition" for another generation, though, because humans desperately cling to the idea that there is something special about us; heck, there are still many people who pretend to be unable to see the evidence for evolution, and a few who can't accept that we're on a smallish planet orbiting a very common kind of star a long way from the center of a commonplace galaxy).
(Other thought: "humanist" may go from being linguistically parallel to scientist, artist, and parachutist (i.e. one who practices, uses, or has intimate knowledge of) to being linguistically parallel to racist or sexist (i.e. one who adheres to obsolete notions of superiority))
mhhf1ve
8/1/2017 6:51:45 PM
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> "So far, although some parts of human mentation are not yet duplicated and surpassed on machines, there has not been any convincing demonstration that anything people can do with their brains and minds can't eventually be done better by machines with their processors and software."
Hmm. I'm not so sure about that assertion and logic. You can't prove "there is no god-like AI" -- so it doesn't quite follow that AI will be able to do anything humans can do AND do it better than us eventually. I mean, sure, maybe.. but..
The one problem I see is that machines and humans have different "desires" and sensory input, fundamentally.
So it would be like asking an autistic person to write a romatic comedy -- if you wanted an AI to do that. How do you infuse AI with the hopes/dreams/humor of humans?
dlr5288
7/31/2017 4:46:23 PM
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It sounds like that to me as well. It'll be quite interesting to see how far this goes and which route they'll take.
DHagar
7/13/2017 2:09:21 PM
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@srufolo1, absolutely, it opens new options and business models as well.
I see this as part of the ongoing opportunity for real transformation. It can add new value and make technology real "solutions" to business problems.
clrmoney
7/11/2017 10:17:17 PM
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CIO has IT for priority
The CIO has a high position so they will need something big on their side.The IT/ Information Technology has a lot to offer for many so whatever works for them.
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