Paul Teich, Author at The Next Platform

Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three

February 10, 2020 Paul Teich 0

We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …

Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two

February 3, 2020 Paul Teich 5

It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …

Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part One

January 13, 2020 Paul Teich 0

Best of breed and vertical integration are two opposing forces that have been part of the datacenter since mainframes first fired up six decades ago in rooms with glass windows in them so companies could show off their technical prowess and financial might. …

IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI

March 27, 2019 Paul Teich 0

The conversational AI created by IBM called Project Debater is designed to have a formal debate with a person. …

Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI

March 18, 2019 Paul Teich 0

To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update Alan Turing’s thought experiment on how to test an AI for conversational intelligence to a 21st Century context and methodology. …

Containers Killed The Virtual Machine Star

January 9, 2019 Paul Teich 3

We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …