[Editor drifts off to teenage years, remembers summers building camps in the back garden at home... raking the leaves in the autumn for extra pocket money...]
Murphy: ...to the mainframe era.
Byte and Switch: Oh, yes, the mainframe era. Of course.
Murphy: There were a bunch of hardware companies Unisys [NYSE: UIS], Amdahl, IBM, HP, and others all vying for a piece of the software market, as there were way too many people in the data center and the emphasis was on consolidation, automation, and provisioning to eliminate all the manual intervention required to keep these systems running.
Byte and Switch: Right. Then what happened?
Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer for Juniper Networks, explains how the advanced technology is transforming operations.
Contact center leaders from 8x8, Awaken Intelligence, and 360insight discuss the importance of agent experience.
AI may force enterprises to rewire parts of their data centers so they are fully optimized to run such workloads. The question is do you use Ethernet or InfiniBand?
