Enterprises Challenged By The Many Guises Of AI

Artificial intelligence and machine learning, which found solid footing among the hyperscalers and is now expanding into the HPC community, are at the top of the list of new technologies that enterprises want to embrace for all kinds of reasons. But it all boils down to the same problem: Sorting through the increasing amounts of data coming into their environments and finding patterns that will help them to run their businesses more efficiently, to make better businesses decisions, and ultimately to make more money. Enterprises are increasingly experimenting with the various frameworks and tools that are on the market and available as open source software, in both small scale experiments run by a growing number of data scientists who have the expertise to find the valuable information the growing lakes of data and in full blown production deployments that are, conceptually, every bit as sophisticated as what the hyperscalers are deploying. The top cloud service providers and hyperscalers have for several years embrace data-driven AI and machine learning techniques and built their own internal frameworks and platforms that enable them to quickly take advantage of them. But as the technologies begin to cascade into more mainstream enterprises, the complexity of software and systems are throwing roadblocks in front of initiatives aimed at leveraging AI and machine learning for the good of the business.