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IT Ops QueryGet ready to meet your new digital coworkersOne of the enterprise tech industry's most influential voices on all things AI, independent analyst Andy Thurai, says in a wide-ranging discussion that IT pros should prepare to work with AI agents in the very near future, despite unanswered questions about their orchestration and the reliability of their decision-making.
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AnalystANGLEtheCUBE Insights With Andy Thur{AI} | UiPath FORWARD VI 2023Andy Thurai, VP, Constellation Research at Constellation Research joins theCUBE hosts David Vellante, Lisa Martin and Rebecca Knight as we wrap up our coverage of UiPath FORWARD VI 20232023-10-1224 min
Bot Nirvana | AI & Automation PodcastAndy ThuraiAndy is VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research.
He is an accomplished IT executive having served in leadership roles at major companies like IBM, Intel, and Oracle. He is an expert in AI, AIOps, Observability, Cloud, and other enterprise software. I have read many of his articles in publications such as Forbes and Harvard Business Review.
In this chat, we talk about the emergence of ChatGPT, Microsoft vs. Google AI, AI ethics, and the future of AI.
More information and Links:
Connect with Andy: linkedin.com/in/andythurai
HBR article Andy co-authored...2023-10-0635 min
Breaking Analysis with Dave VellanteConnecting the dots on the emerging Databricks tech stackThe recent Databricks Data+AI Summit attracted a large audience and, like Snowflake Summit, featured a strong focus on large language models, unification and bringing AI to the data. While customers demand a unified platform to access all their data, Databricks and Snowflake are attacking the problem from different perspectives. In our view, the market size justifies the current enthusiasm seen around both platforms but it’s unlikely that either company has a knockout blow for the other. This is not a head on collision. Rather Snowflake is likely years ahead in terms of operationalizing data. Developers can build ap...2023-07-0852 minBreaking Analysis with Dave VellanteHPE wants to turn supercomputing leadership into gen AI profitsHPE’s announcement of an AI cloud for large language models highlights a differentiated strategy that the company hopes will lead to sustained momentum in its high performance computing business. While we think HPE has some distinct advantages with respect to its supercomputing IP, the public cloud players have a substantial lead in AI with a point of view that generative AI is fully dependent on the cloud and its massive compute capabilities. The question is can HPE bring unique capabilities and a focus to the table that will yield competitive advantage and ultimately, profits in the space?2023-06-2444 minBreaking Analysis with Dave VellanteSearching for gold in enterprise AIThe AI gold rush is on. The paths to monetization are seemingly endless but the most obvious converge on making humans more productive or supercharging existing business models like search advertising or subscription licenses. Much of AI adoption in enterprise IT is hidden. Our research shows a very high overlap (around 40-60%) between AI adoption in enterprise tech and embedded AI inside software from the likes of Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, Oracle and other major players. But the rapid advancements of tools from AI leaders and an emerging group of independent firms is causing customers to think differently. Catalyzed...2023-05-1340 min
Slight ReliabilitySlight Reliability Episode 54 - Trends in Incident Management with Andy ThuraiSend us a textIn this episode Stephen Townshend chats to Andy Thurai (VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research) about Andy's latest report titled "Trends in Incident Management 2023". They chat about "mean time to innocence", status pages, they debate whether AI or ML has real value for incident management, and ponder why anyone would willingly decide to become an incident commander?You can find Andy's report here: https://www.constellationr.com/research/2023-trends-incident-managementYou can find Andy on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andythurai/You can find the...2023-05-0932 min
DisrupTVCloud technology and AI | Behshad Behzadi, Tom Davenport, AI Nitin Mittal, and Andy ThuraiThis week on DisrupTV episode 317, we interviewed Behshad Behzadi, Vice President of Engineering, Conversational AI, Google Cloud, Tom Davenport and AI Nitin Mittal, Authors of All-in on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence and Andy Thurai, Vice President & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research.
We discussed Google Cloud's Conversational AI Machine Learning, customer service, the enterprise and how to compete in the industry using cloud technology and AI.
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by C...2023-04-071h 04Breaking Analysis with Dave VellanteAI Goes Mainstream But ROI Remains ElusiveWith Andy Thurai, VP & Principal Analyst, Constellation ResearchA decade of big data investments combined with cloud scalability, the rise of more cost effective processing and the introduction of advanced tooling has catapulted machine intelligence to the forefront of technology investments. No matter what job you have, your operation will be AI powered within five years and machines may be doing your job in the future. Artificial intelligence is being infused into applications, infrastructure, equipment and virtually every aspect of our lives. AI is proving to be extremely helpful at controlling vehicles, speeding medical diagnoses, p...2022-12-3031 min
On CloudReduce IT complexity and build better apps with AIOpsAIOps is being embraced by savvy companies to help them build—and operate—better apps, faster. In this podcast, Mike Kavis and Constellation Research's Andy Thurai discuss how companies can use AIOps to reduce IT complexity and deliver better products. Andy cautions that the onus is on the enterprise to assuage employees' fears and get management buy-in for a successful AIOps implementation.2021-08-0433 min
The Edgevana PodcastE17: Edge Visibility & Architecture- With Andy ThuraiHow can we achieve total observability at the edge? Tech Analyst and Influencer, Andy Thurai joins Mark to brings his take on real time data at the edge, cloud operations, and much much more.2021-05-1843 min
Utilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology2x13: AI Needs Non-Traditional Storage Solutions with James Coomer of DDNAI applications have large data volumes with lots of clients and conventional storage systems aren’t a good fit. In this episode, James Coomer from DDN talks about the lessons they have learned building storage systems to support AI applications. Inferencing requires terabytes or petabytes of data, often large files and streaming data. For example, autonomous driving applications generate hundreds of terabytes of data per vehicle drive, resulting in petabytes of data to ingest and process. DDN’s parallel filesystem goes a step further than NFS with an intelligent client that directs I/O to leverage all network links and...2021-03-3036 minUtilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology2x08: Algorithmic Bias and Subjective Decision Making with Alf RehnBiases can creep into any data set, and these can cause trouble when this data is used to train an AI model. Alf Rehn, Professor of Innovation, Design, and Management at the University of Southern Denmark, joins Andy Thurai and Stephen Foskett to discuss the lessons he has learned about algorithmic bias based on his work with the Velux Foundations Algorithms, Data and Democracy project. Society is directing artificial intelligence to solving some problems and ignoring others, and this can create biases as surely as data selection in model training. Can we ever truly eliminate bias? If not how...2021-02-2333 minUtilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology2x06: Moving AI To the Edge with BrainChipBrainChip is developing a novel ultra low power “neuromorphic” AI processor that can be embedded in literally any electronic device, rather than centralizing learning in high performance processors. Today’s edge devices are applying exiting models to process inputs but can’t actually learn in the field, but on-chip learning and inference could radically alter the capabilities of devices in automotive, home, medical, and other remote locations. BrainChip is able to reduce power thanks to the neuromorphic self-learning approach and also because they reduce precision down to 4 bits or less. This loses some accuracy, but only a little. The company...2021-02-0931 minUtilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology2x05: How AI Can Save IT Operations From Drowning in Data with Josh Atwell from SplunkAI is impacting IT operations more quickly than expected, and companies like Splunk are leveraging it to augment staff capabilities. Josh Atwell joins Andy Thurai and Stephen Foskett to discuss practical application of AI to help keep IT operations from drowning in data as applications are distributed in containers and the cloud. The key to using AI for operations is to leverage it to assist staff to process the volume and velocity of data, not replace them.
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Josh Atwell is Senior Technology Advocate at Splunk. Find Josh on Twitter as @Josh_Atwell and...2021-02-0230 minUtilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology2x02: The Last Mile - Connecting AI to Enterprise Applications with Monte ZwebenThere are many “last mile” items on the enterprise checklist, and companies are struggling to connect everything together. In this episode, Monte Zweben, CEO of Splice Machine, discusses feature stores with Andy Thurai and Stephen Foskett. Data engineers maintain data pipelines, data scientists maintain the data store, and machine learning engineers are trying to create models and package them so they will be useful. One idea is to store a model in a relational database, store records in a feature table, and enable the database to trigger a model based on this data. That’s what Splice Machines is implem...2021-01-1236 min
OpenObservability TalksAn Observability chat with Andy Thurai - OpenObservability Talks S1E7The seventh of our OpenObservability Talks has Andy Thurai, Senior Analyst at GigaOM.
Jonah Kowall, CTO and Andy Thurai will talk about Andy's career and journey as a vendor and an analyst. We will discuss the observability market along with APM and other aspects of monitoring. We will then dive into the open-source ecosystem and how this is changing vendor thinking. Of course, we'll also be discussing OpenTelemetry!
Andy Thurai is the Founder & Principal at the FieldCTO providing content and advisory services to enterprise customers in particular on AIOps, CloudOps, AI, ML...2020-12-3144 min
Utilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology01x14: Three Reasons AI is Getting Real with Bob Friday, CTO of MistAI, machine learning, and neural networks are not new ideas. So what changed now? Over the last 5-6 years, advances in software, hardware, and scale have brought machine learning to the forefront, enabling new products and technologies. In this episode, Bob Friday, CTO of Mist, a Juniper Company, discusses the changes that have enabled his company and others to bring AI to the enterprise. We focus on four key questions: When did you start to see that AI was going to be a major force in the enterprise networking world? How have Google and other companies enabled AI...2020-11-2427 min
Utilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology01x12: Why Do Most Enterprise AI Projects Fail? with Roey Mechrez of BeyondMindsMost enterprise IT projects fail, and it has been this way for decades, and this discussion with Roey Mechrez of BeyondMinds considers why this is the case. One of the primary reasons is the trade-off between building custom solutions and buying off the shelf products. This is doubly different with AI since the success of a model depends on the data and training, not to mention the maintenance and updates needed as issues arise. Data science teams need to invest significant time and model into infrastructure, rather than just jumping in to train the model. This is a similar...2020-11-1033 min
Utilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology01x11: Is Kubeflow the Real Deal? Featuring David Aponte and Demetrios BrinkmannDavid Aponte and Demetrios Brinkmann discuss the future of Kubeflow with Stephen Foskett and Andy Thurai. Kubeflow is getting a lot of attention, but contributions and community seem to be lagging. Is this really the future of machine learning or just another dead-end open source project? Will product vendors pile on top, redirect the project, or kill development? The open source community tends to gravitate to quality projects, and it will develop Kubeflow (or not) based on the usefulness of the solution.Episode Hosts and Guests David Aponte, Machine Learning Engineer. Find David online at LinkedIn...2020-11-0334 min
Utilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology01x10: Bringing DevOps Principles to MLOps with Gaetan CasteleinStephen Foskett and Andy Thurai discuss the parallels between DevOps and MLOps with Gaetan Castelein of Tecton. We are in the middle of a shift in analytics and software engineering, with DevOps and continuous deployment, and this is colliding with the development of data analytics and big data. Machine Learning allows organizations to handle this explosion of data and build new applications and automate new business processes, but MLOps must be converged with big data and DevOps tooling to make this a reality. One key enabler of this transformation is the creation of an ML feature store, which stores...2020-10-2730 min
The AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 11 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Andrew Tunall, GM, New Relic Serverless & Emerging Cloud Services, discuss the challenges and advantages of distributed tracing.2020-10-2626 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 11 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Andrew Tunall, GM, New Relic Serverless & Emerging Cloud Services, discuss the challenges and advantages of distributed tracing.2020-10-2615 min
Utilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology01x08: What Does AI Mean For the Future of Networking with Chris GrundemannStephen Foskett and Andy Thurai are joined by Chris Grundemann to discuss how AI is used in enterprise networking, and how it is changing the industry. They begin with a discussion of AI in enterprise networking, connecting it with software-defined networking and other trends. What network management tasks can be improved through the use of AI? Grundemann looks to using the technology in root cause analysis and fault correlation as well as prediction of network events. The discussion then turns to the ways that AI workloads will change the workload or demand on networking. AI systems demand data, throughput...2020-10-1322 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 10 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO interviews Prem Naraindas, CEO of Katonic.ai.2020-10-0517 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 10 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO interviews Prem Naraindas, CEO of Katonic.ai.2020-10-0532 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 9 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Sean McDermott, President, CEO and Founder of Windward Consulting Group, discuss how the COVID pandemic is impacting business and IT, and driving the need for AIOps. 2020-09-2821 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 9 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Sean McDermott, President, CEO and Founder of Windward Consulting Group, discuss how the COVID pandemic is impacting business and IT, and driving the need for AIOps. 2020-09-2837 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 8 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Michael Olson, Director of Marketing at New Relic, discuss how AIOps can truly help IT teams. 2020-09-2118 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 8 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Michael Olson, Director of Marketing at New Relic, discuss how AIOps can truly help IT teams. 2020-09-2133 min
Voices in InnovationVoices in Innovation – Andy Thurai and David Linthicum Discuss AIOps
In this episode GigaOm analysts Andy Thurai and David Linthicum discuss AIOps, focusing on the recent report 'GigaOm Radar for Evaluating AI Ops'.
Voices in Innovation – Andy Thurai and David Linthicum Discuss AIOps2020-09-1726 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 7 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Will Cappelli, Field CTO of Moogsoft and former Gartner Research VP, discuss AIOps vs. Observability. 2020-09-1443 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 7 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Will Cappelli, Field CTO of Moogsoft and former Gartner Research VP, discuss AIOps vs. Observability. 2020-09-1421 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 6 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Mark Thiele, Co-Founder and CEO of Edgevana, discuss taking AIOps to the Edge. 2020-09-0819 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 6 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Mark Thiele, Co-Founder and CEO of Edgevana, discuss taking AIOps to the Edge. 2020-09-0833 minVoices in InnovationVoices in Innovation – Meet Andy Thurai
We welcome our new analyst Andy Thurai and talk about the subjects he covers and his philosophy on research.
Voices in Innovation – Meet Andy Thurai2020-09-0325 min
Utilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology01x02: Ethical and Moral AI with Andy ThuraiStephen Foskett and Andy Thurai discuss the ethics and morality of AI. Taking a cue from an article written by Andy for AI Trends, we focus on the various biases that can influence AI, and how to prevent these from interfering with the results. Andy recommends modeling knowing that biases would come into the input data, recognizing limitations in technology and data, teaching human values and validating AI models, and setting an ethical tone in the organization creating the AI model. Like people, AI models can only be as unbiased as their environment and training, and it is critical...2020-09-0128 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 5 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Bhanu Singh, SVP of Engineering and DevOps at Opsramp, discuss the hype and the reality of AIOps.2020-08-3142 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 5 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Bhanu Singh, SVP of Engineering and DevOps at Opsramp, discuss the hype and the reality of AIOps.
, discuss the hype and the reality of AIOps.2020-08-3120 min
Utilizing Tech: The Podcast Series About Emerging Technology01x01: AI is Getting Real with Andy ThuraiIn this pilot episode of Utilizing AI, Stephen Foskett and Andy Thurai discuss the reason for the podcast and consider where we go from here.AI is getting real, moving out of academia and hyperscale and into the enterprise. Businesses are adopting AI in strategically, and IT companies are deploying AI technologies in their products. This trend is quite obvious to Stephen at Gestalt IT, as many Tech Field Day companies present AI-enabled products for network monitoring and management, security, mobility, and much more. Today's infrastructure applications are focused on applying machine learning to large datasets, finding...2020-08-2822 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 4 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and IBM Fellow Mac Devine, VP & CTO Strategic Customer Success, Watson Cloud Division of IBM, talk about the data-driven organization, the Big Data behind AIOps, and how to get the right data at the right time with the right insights.2020-08-2417 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 4 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and IBM Fellow Mac Devine, VP & CTO Strategic Customer Success, Watson Cloud Division of IBM, talk about the data-driven organization, the Big Data behind AIOps, and how to get the right data at the right time with the right insights.2020-08-2428 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 3 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and cloud computing pioneer Mike Kavis, Managing Director of Deloitte Consulting, talk about the teams that make up ITOps. As Mike says: "Technology is hard. People are harder."2020-08-1729 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 3 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and cloud computing pioneer Mike Kavis, Managing Director of Deloitte Consulting, talk about the teams that make up ITOps. As Mike says: "Technology is hard. People are harder."2020-08-1718 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 2 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Jonah Kowall, CTO of Logz.io and former Gartner Research VP, discuss AIOps, Open Telemetry, Observability, and the Big Data challenges of AI.2020-08-1034 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 2 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Jonah Kowall, CTO of Logz.io and former Gartner Research VP, discuss AIOps, Open Telemetry, Observability, and the Big Data challenges of AI.2020-08-1019 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 1 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO interviews Dennis Drogseth, VP and Analyst at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), about AIOps and the firm's current research into the AIOps market.2020-08-0338 min
The AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 1 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO interviews Dennis Drogseth, VP and Analyst at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), about AIOps and the firm's current research into the AIOps market.2020-08-0321 min