A feature on how generative AI is redrawing data centre design — from storage-led optimisation to power-hungry GPU compute and high-bandwidth interconnect — and the energy, permitting, and supply-chain constraints that come with it. John Bradshaw is quoted on why retrieval-augmented generation carries most enterprise workloads: cheaper, faster to deploy, no scarce ML engineering talent required, and proprietary data never touches a training pipeline.
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John Bradshaw argues that major cloud outages reveal design failures, not just technology failures, and explains how abstraction across multiple providers creates true resilience rather than dependency on a single cloud's availability guarantees.
John Bradshaw discusses the operational and architectural challenges of edge computing — from distributed data gravity to workload orchestration — and how Akamai is simplifying the landscape for operators and developers to keep workflows seamless.
An examination of the trade-offs between serverless and serverful computing approaches in modern cloud environments, exploring the infrastructure management decisions organisations must consider when building their cloud strategy.