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Avoid AI budget waste in 2026. Use this practical guide to plan investments that produce measurable business impact.
Nick Chase
December 30, 2025

Planning AI Investments That Actually Pay Off in 2026

In 2026, AI spending scrutiny will rise. This guide helps organizations plan AI investments that survive CFO review, avoid pilot purgatory, and deliver compounding ROI through clear outcomes, defined metrics, and scalable foundations.

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AI won’t reward hype in 2026. Learn how to avoid pilot purgatory, vendor failures, and data misuse with this field guide.
Nick Chase
December 28, 2025

What Companies Will Get Wrong About AI in 2026

This guide outlines seven key mistakes enterprises will make with AI in 2026—from overvaluing tools to skipping governance—and offers practical, operations-first advice to help teams turn AI from a buzzword into sustained business value.

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Discover how AI agents can streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and drive innovation. This guide covers key steps for business leaders, from selecting the right AI technology to deployment, maintenance, and ethical considerations.
Nick Chase
February 13, 2025

Embracing the AI Agent Revolution: A Practical Roadmap for Business Leaders

This blog provides a practical roadmap for business leaders looking to adopt AI agents to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and drive innovation. It covers key steps, including identifying opportunities for AI agents, selecting the right technology, deploying AI solutions, and ensuring long-term success through maintenance and ethical considerations. Whether you're just starting your AI journey or refining existing implementations, this guide helps businesses harness AI agents effectively while mitigating risks.

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AIOps: Insights from an Article Close to My Heart
Nick Chase
November 14, 2024

AIOps: Insights from an Article Close to My Heart

AIOps leverages AI to automate IT operations, reducing downtime by analyzing vast data streams and predicting issues. The next step, agentic systems, enables AI to autonomously resolve problems, but this raises concerns around trust, making explainable AI essential. Responsible AI ensures ethical, fair, and secure operations, establishing guardrails as autonomous systems gain prominence.

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Breaking Down Data Silos: Empowering Cross-Departmental Collaboration with a "Collective Data Fabric"
Nick Chase
November 13, 2024

Breaking Down Data Silos with a Collective Data Fabric

Data silos are the natural result of decentralized systems and tooling decisions that optimize for individual departments rather than the organization as a whole. Common entities like "client," "customer," or "user ID" often differ across departments, complicating data integration -- custom ETL (extract, transform, load) processes (read: spaghetti code) that are challenging to scale and maintain. It doesn't have to be that way.

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Moving Beyond Lift-and-Shift: The Value of Kubernetes-First Thinking
Nick Chase
November 11, 2024

Moving Beyond Lift-and-Shift: The Value of Kubernetes-First Thinking

Modernization is inevitable. You're never finished. If you didn't do it last week, you're going to need to do it next week. That said, the pace of software change is continuing to accelerate, but sometimes simpler is better.

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GenAI is Finally Boring, Agentic Systems are the Next Big Thing
Nick Chase
November 6, 2024

GenAI is Finally Boring (in a Good Way); Agentic Systems are the Next Big Thing

ChatGPT and GenAI have upended content creation and interaction with customers. As "newness" wears off, we settle into a (reasonably) reliable and predictable trajectory. Organizations have gone from "let's see how this works" to "we need to make this work for us ASAP."  And now, GenAI opens the door to a bigger technology change: agentic systems.

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How to make your Lakehouse the reservoir that powers GenAI and BI success
David Fishman
October 15, 2024

5 Challenges: How to make your Lakehouse the reservoir that powers GenAI and BI success

Data Integration has become a key focus for organizations aiming to unlock value from their rapidly growing data. Cloud-scale data stores – databases, file stores, and the range of big data types – have led many to adopt a data lake house platform, Snowflake and Databricks most prominent among the many options.

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Moving from VMware to Kubernetes? One Step at a Time
David Fishman
October 14, 2024

Moving from VMware to Kubernetes? One Step at a Time

Transitioning from VMware to Kubernetes can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. Just like updating old furniture, you don’t need to throw everything out at once. This blog explores a practical, phased approach to modernization, helping you navigate from legacy systems to cloud-native infrastructure.

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Common Hurdles in Cloud-Native Development with Kubernetes
Alex Ulyanov
September 27, 2024

Overcoming Common Hurdles in Cloud-Native Development with Kubernetes

Kubernetes (K8s) and containers have become just about every developer’s bread and butter for building, deploying, and scaling applications. But let’s be real—using K8s in the cloud-native race isn’t always a walk in the park. In fact, even though K8s automates a lot of the heavy lifting, there are still plenty of ways to stumble.

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Databricks for a green energy company’s data platform. Explore the strategic benefits, including rapid implementation, scalability, and flexibility to transition to open-source solutions.
Nick Chase
September 26, 2024

Why Start With Databricks

In the fast-paced world of green energy, where the ability to adapt is crucial, Databricks provides them with the tools and flexibility they need to stay ahead of the curves in the supply and demand landscape.

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Explore why Text-to-SQL alone falls short for complex data management and discover how knowledge graphs enhance data organization, integration, and query precision.
Nick Chase
September 20, 2024

Why Text-to-SQL Isn’t Enough: The Case for Knowledge Graphs in Data Management

In the world of enterprise data management, text-to-SQL technology, while helpful, is it simply not enough for today’s complex data environments?

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Learn from the recent major outage affecting IT and Security teams worldwide. Discover essential steps for rigorous system assessments, risk management, and business continuity planning to enhance your organization's security posture.
Valery Levchenko
July 19, 2024

CrowdStroke: A Wake-Up Call for IT Security

Learn from the recent major outage affecting IT and Security teams worldwide. Discover essential steps for rigorous system assessments, risk management, and business continuity planning to enhance your organization's security posture.

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Discover the hidden risks of openwashing in generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E. Learn about the Linux Foundation's new Model Openness Framework and Tool, designed to ensure transparency and protect your business and customers.
Nick Chase
June 23, 2024

Why you need to worry about openwashing

Uncover the risks of openwashing in AI tools like ChatGPT. Learn about the Linux Foundation's new tools for ensuring model transparency and protecting your interests.

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