This is the August 2023 edition of the neXt Curve Tech Insights newsletter. This edition covers Mountain Connect 2023, VMware Explore, Google Cloud Next, generative AI, digital divide, BEAD, edge cloud, multi cloud, hybrid AI and more. Subscribe for tech and industry insights that matter.
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The hype that is generative AI continues to rise and with it what is and will be and inevitable realization of the risks and the limitations of the technology, its rapidly growing range of applications, and investments in capitalizing on the ever-expanding landscape of theories of its revolutionary impact on society, industry, and civilization as we know it. We are also starting to see calls for responsible and confidential Gen AI. The “edge” may have some answers that we seek for safe and valuable use of generative AI technologies.
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The Milken Institute Global Conference provided neXt Curve a unique opportunity to engage with a diverse community of leaders and thinkers across industries and domains of expertise to contemplate the role and essentiality of connectivity, computing technologies, and digital transformation in helping societies, economies, and individuals adapt and thrive through crises of humanity and nature as they look forward and create a more connected, resilient world.
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In the last three months, Microsoft has been on a tear building out its portfolio of 5G core and virtualized network service management technologies having acquired Affirmed Networks, and most recently, Metaswitch. The acquisition of these telecom tech companies by the leading enterprise IT technology company and cloud service provider may seem curious at first, but these transactions highlight the acceleration of a transformative trend that we at neXt Curve dubbed Under-the-Bottom (UTB) in our 2019 technology horizon study for Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s communications and media sector regulator.
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For years the Smart Home has promised to enrich the lives of consumers and has inspired waves of manufacturer innovation such as smart speakers, intelligent thermostats and much more. While these innovations have offered incremental improvement in our home lives, the consumer reality has been a deluge of devices and services, greater complexity, and less security. In truth, the Smart Home remains elusive, the problems it intends to solve unclear. Only when manufacturers reach beyond devices and services with purpose-driven “Smart Living” solutions at home will this market cross the chasm to rapid market growth.
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While GDPR raises global concerns about enterprise use of consumer personal data, the media and consumers continue to confuse privacy with security and vice versa. Can consumers effectively advocate for and protect their digital privacy when privacy and security are so easily and readily confused?
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