2001 saw the total disintegration of the storage service provider (SSP) market, after a lot of PWSHKB (people who should have known better) wrote some of the world's daftest business plans and actually managed to get some of them funded. Biggest offender, without any doubt: Sanrise Inc.
No. 7: Romulan Cloaking Devices
In a strange-but-true twist, numerous storage networking startups were afflicted by a curious condition during the second half of the year. The symptoms were twofold: disappearing customers and invisible products.
Both 3PARdata Inc. and Zambeel Inc. still have shields of death surrounding their products, and TrueSAN Networks Inc. along with many, many others is suffering from a nasty case of invisible customer.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
