Supporting humans and networks: AI and machine learning

There is an overarching fear that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning are going to take over people's jobs, but there is a counter argument that their main purpose is to support humans as enabling technologies. However, organisations that don't train up their staff now to learn new skills may find themselves left behind. This includes IT, which is of increasingly strategic importance to most organisations today. Both technologies are becoming a fundamental part of our lives, and with the advent of semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles they will become more so – both in consumer and enterprise applications. SD-WANs are very good at the branch office level, but as technology moves forward data volumes are going increase and the time to intelligence will need to shrink.