Edwin Yuen, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. in Milford, Mass., has a lot of good things to say about Chef, particularly as a network automation tool for Linux and container systems. <\/p>\n
The Chef automation tool, Yuen wrote, gives IT operators the chance to make a bigger impact on their companies. Yuen said the programming language is a standard through which teams can communicate and eliminate roadblocks across platforms and applications. <\/p>\n
Companies can then focus on \"outcome-oriented IT,\" where outcomes drive both the applications and the infrastructure required to support them. That shift in strategy doesn't devalue infrastructure, Yuen said. Instead, it's about letting IT administrators -- through a network automation tool like Chef -- shift their focus from the infrastructure to apps and outcomes. \"Chef has begun the shift away from simply showing the value of automationwithChefto the value of automationbecauseof Chef,\" Yuen said. <\/p>\n
See what else Yuen had to say about the value of a network automation tool. <\/p>\n
Lee Badman, writing in WiredNot, shared his experience with a simple upgrade of the Cisco controller underpinning his wireless LAN network. And the experience wasn't a pleasant one. As Badman put it, \"It matters not that I've done this procedure about a hundred times through the years.\" <\/p>\n
\"This time, the controller had its own idea about how this code upgrade would go down.\" <\/p>\n
The culprits will forever be unknown, but after a few bruises from repeatedly hitting his head against the wall in frustration, the controller -- and the associated access points -- got the required upgrade. <\/p>\n
However, how he was able to get everything operating again makes for an interesting read. <\/p>\n
Read about the obstacles Badman faced. <\/p>\n
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is now the cool kid on the block. At least, that's what Gartner analyst Jim Hare said in a recent blog post examining the evolution of the technology. <\/p>\n
AI, in Gartner's estimation, has three important traits: the ability to learn, predict and, most important, to surprise. \"Many people associate AI with a single technology -- chatbots, cloud APIs, computer vision, natural-language processing (NLP) or robotics,\" Hare said. \"In reality, AI is diverse -- it is all of the above, and much more.\" <\/p>\n
To that end, Gartner identified five vendors it believes have AI software that goes beyond the tools currently available. They are Chronocam, for its image processing software; Cortical.io, for its NLP software; Deepgram, for its search and classification engine; Descartes Labs; and SigOpt. <\/p>\n
See what Hare had to say about these companies and the evolution of AI. <\/p>\n
AI comes of age <\/p>\n
Troubleshooting wireless connection issues <\/p>\n
What you need to know about Chef <\/p>\n
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