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Stop Asking “Which AI Tool?” — Start Asking “Which AI Practice?”

Published March 16, 2026 by Carlos Veira

Stop Asking “Which AI Tool?” — Start Asking “Which AI Practice?”Stop Asking "Which AI Tool?" — Start Asking "Which AI Practice?"

There is a pattern I keep seeing across enterprise teams, vendor pitches, and technology conversations: everyone is talking about AI “tools”. Almost nobody is talking about AI “practices”.

Meanwhile, something significant has been happening quietly. The agentic plugin ecosystem — the layer of structured workflow tooling built on top of AI coding assistants — has reached its “best practices” moment. Tools like claude-task-master (24,000+ GitHub stars), RuFlo (Fortune 500 validated, deployed in 80+ countries), and planning-with-files are not experiments anymore. They are the first generation of systematized, reusable AI workflow infrastructure for individual practitioners.…

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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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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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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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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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The dirty secrets of Speed

Published February 26, 2017 by Carlos Veira

The dirty secrets of SpeedThe dirty secrets of Speed

Digital Transformation is a buzzword these days. It is so for good reasons. Many businesses today face fierce pressures from competitors leveraging web scale technologies and digital business models. Many others must also adapt to younger customer bases that are particularly sensitive to engagements via digital means. In this context, Digital is no longer an instrumental item to the business, but a defining one.

Technology has always had the ability to speed things up. We have been hearing this forever and, precisely because of this, we all tend to normalize our perception about speed and minimize how relevant it can be.…

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Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell – Part 2: “The Dark Side”

Published March 21, 2014 by Carlos Veira

Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell – Part 2: “The Dark Side”Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell — Part 2: “The Dark Side”

What we have seen on our previous post may seem interesting and powerful. Essentially, what we are doing is opening the door to creating local datasets with personally identifiable information coming from our Social Networks. That's a pretty big deal. Therefore, there are a couple of things that we need to understand before going forward.

Privacy, Law and Ethics

Usually, on Digital Media, whenever you can access some information is because you have rights and permissions to do so. However, I would like you to consider the difference between “can” and “should”.…

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By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 3 of 3)

Published August 27, 2012 by Carlos Veira

By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 3 of 3)By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 3 of 3)

Innovation = Sales activity

This paradigm usually appears when a customer tells you that he “misses innovative proposals from you”. As you might have figured out, this is a Sales activity but not an Innovation one: Proposing something is selling, not innovating.

Anyway, we must question ourselves who is really innovating just in case we’ve successfully sold something innovative:

  • We?
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