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Mindful Digital Transformation: AI and Architecture

Published January 5, 2025 by Carlos Veira

Mindful Digital Transformation: AI and ArchitectureMindful Digital Transformation: Integrating Generative AI from Architecture

Happy 2025 everyone!

Last December 9th I had the honor and pleasure to participate in the II Enterprise Architecture Forum with a conference titled: “Mindful Digital Transformation: Integrating Generative AI from Architecture“.

In a world where Generative AI is reshaping enterprises at an unprecedented speed, I presented my point of view on how Enterprise Architecture can be the compass in the midst of so much complexity.

We discussed how a structured approach can translate technological disruption into sustainable strategic opportunities.…

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Assessing Broadcom VMware Eight Months On

Published August 20, 2024 by Carlos Veira

Assessing Broadcom VMware Eight Months OnAssessing Broadcom VMware Eight Months On

A few days ago David Vellante posted a summary in LinkedIn about a Breaking Analysis from theCUBE Research about the state of things after the Broadcom acquisition.

👉🏻 In addition to the ideas shared on that piece of work, I also see the convergence of three trends as major drivers for Workload Modernization (Hybrid Multicloud adoption):

1. VMware “exits”.
2. The enforcement of EU-DORA regulations as an accelerator.
3. The combined capabilities of IaaS and PaaS under a single Control Plane powered by GenAI (i.e.…

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Enterprises seek deeper AI value beyond chat

Published April 15, 2024 by Carlos Veira

Enterprises seek deeper AI value beyond chatEnterprises seek deeper AI value beyond chat

A few days ago David Vellante posted a summary in LinkedIn about a Breaking Analysis from theCUBE Research about the state of GenAI in the Enterprise.

It is a very interesting reading with lots of data points and reflections about the market behavior.

🎯 Data Points I found interesting

  1. Enterprise use cases are ChatGPT-like (not surprised).
  2. AI-monetization doesn't follow the hype (not surprised).
  3. Complex Use Cases, Longer ROIs and Paybacks, but higher upsides (not surprised)
  4. Investments in GPUs <10M will wait 1 year to be fulfilled.
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Summary and Initial Thoughts of the OpenAI DevDay

Published November 7, 2023 by Carlos Veira

Summary and Initial Thoughts of the OpenAI DevDayOpenAI DevDay: Opening Keynote

Yesterday, OpenAI held its first-ever DevDay conference.

Here you have a quick summary of the announcements presented:

  1. More speed.
  2. Price reductions.
  3. More Capabilities.
  4. Platform Play: Marketplace for customized GPTs + Revenue Sharing Schemes. 👈

On the Capabilities front, they announced:

  1. 128k context window. 👈
  2. New version of Whisper.
  3. Reduced knowledge gap: now updated until April 2023. 👈
  4. Improved fine-tuning.
  5. Custom Model Program for very large datasets.
  6. More deterministic behavior and better tools to manage this.
  7. Conversation Threads to hand off state management to OpenAI.
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A crisis of spending and cloud-based GenAI

Published October 5, 2023 by Carlos Veira

A crisis of spending and cloud-based GenAIA crisis of spending and cloud-based generative AI

A few days ago, David Linthicum published a summary on LinkedIn about an article he wrote on InfoWorld about this topic.

However, besides the points made in the article, I believe that some strategic thinking can also help here. There is always something else after the hype: they call it the “Trough of Disillusionment”. Knowing this raises questions:

  1. can we be smarter now to spend less time “there”?
  2. what can we do now to ensure that trust between stakeholders remains “healthy” when those “bad times” come?
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Brief notes about GenAI Orchestration

Published September 5, 2023 by Carlos Veira

Brief notes about GenAI OrchestrationBrief notes about GenAI Orchestration

A few days ago, my colleague Vishal Anand, shared in LinkedIn an initial draft of an LLM Orchestration Framework to get our feedback.

Beyond technical discussions about the Framework itself, it is obvious that GenAI Orchestration has a bright future based on the initial estimates of the AI market. However, I would also remind that this is a key Architectural Capability that can also be embedded in applications. In this regard:

  1. AI-Native Apps will have it embedded. AI Agents, and the “Promt Is Code” concept will be wild here.
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Decomposing the Value Chain in the Cloud

Published May 4, 2019 by Carlos Veira

Decomposing the Value Chain in the CloudDecomposing The Value Chain In The Cloud

Back when consumer USB drives were flooding the market, it was quite common to witness how people would challenge datacenter-grade storage. They would do so by comparing it with devices they could readily buy on any retail store immediately and inexpensively. By comparison, IT storage was costly and slower to deliver.

Perceptive observers could think that, either there was a scam going on… or, most probably, those two things were not exactly the same …

The funny thing is that the same still (yes, still) happens with Cloud Services.…

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Selecting Components for WordPress

Published March 4, 2019 by Carlos Veira

Selecting Components for WordPressSelecting Components for WordPress

I have been dealing with WordPress for years now. I have developed and maintained my own site; built a number of experiments and Proofs-of-Concept and managed blogging platforms for others. Each context has taught me something new, but one of the aspects that keeps me hooked into this environment is the vibrant community that WordPress has.

The amount of plugins, themes, and solutions that get built on top of it is astonishing. WordPress is estimated to run to 33% of all websites and 60% of the ones with a known CMS.…

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Additional thoughts about Cloud Portability

Published February 25, 2019 by Carlos Veira

Additional thoughts about Cloud PortabilityAdditional thoughts about Cloud Portability

 

Despite how much I love the Cloud, it would be foolish to ignore the many challenges that it poses. And, when concepts such as Liquid IT or Multi-Cloud become part of the agenda, one of those is, without a doubt, Portability.

Back when I was a member of the Atos Scientific Community, I was one of the authors of a whitepaper that addressed this very same topic. Since then, I was fortunate enough to witness other points of view about the subject and some have certainly got me thinking.…

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Getting into the Enterprise Architecture space

Published February 19, 2019 by Carlos Veira

Getting into the Enterprise Architecture spaceGetting into the Enterprise Architecture space

I don't know your experience with this, but I always had this feeling that Enterprise Architecture is one of those things that everybody talks about without quite knowing what actually is.

I myself can be blamed about this very same thing… I have practiced IT Architecture for years at different levels and across different domains. And, despite always doing my best; learning from brilliant people and working on challenging projects, the same issues emerged over and over again. Here are just a few:

  • The focus on a narrow scope wouldn't let me connect with the global picture or the ultimate vision that was driving what I was doing.
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