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GPT-4o: The Next Frontier of Generative AI
Since its inception in 2015, OpenAI has led the innovation in large language models, setting new AI standards with its GPT series. However, recent competition from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Mistral introduced Gen AI models surpassing OpenAI in response speed, multilingual understanding, and multimodal processing. While OpenAI had these capabilities individually, they were scattered across multiple models. The launch of GPT-4o finally unified these features, delivering a comprehensive solution that harnesses the full spectrum of Gen AI capabilities.
May, 2024
Multicloud and AI: Enabling Intelligent Workflows across Diverse Cloud Environments
Enterprises are adopting multicloud environments and AI-driven automation to enhance operational efficiency and flexibility. As multicloud adoption grows, challenges such as cost inefficiencies, migration complexities, and integration issues persist. Addressing these challenges, Oracle announced at Oracle CloudWorld 2024 the integration of its Exadata database with AWS, enabling seamless multicloud connectivity, improved latency, and optimized costs. Oracle also introduced over 50 role-based AI agents in its Fusion Cloud Applications Suite to automate repetitive tasks using AI capabilities that adapt to changes and improve over time. These initiatives align with industry efforts by SAP, Microsoft, and Workday in leveraging generative AI to streamline sales, service, finance, and supply chain management functions.
November, 2024
Beyond Apple’s Vision Pro: Charting a New Course with Spatial Computing
One of the primary challenges enterprises face when leveraging AR/VR is providing realistic visuals and seamless interaction between virtual and real-world objects. High visual quality traditionally required high-power computing, which further hindered enterprise adoption. In such a scenario, spatial computing has emerged as a solution, enabling superior immersive experiences suitable for enterprise use. The introduction of Apple’s Vision Pro has accelerated this development, with numerous real-world implementations across several industries being introduced shortly after its release.
June, 2024
From Fugaku HPC to Quantum: Fujitsu’s Leap into Next-Gen Supercomputing
The quantum era is here, and it is compelling enterprises to act. Once seen as a distant tech milestone, quantum computing is now reshaping strategies, accelerated by generative AI’s rapid ascent in 2022. Companies realize the risk of unpreparedness as quantum promises to disrupt industries from logistics to cybersecurity. Fujitsu is demonstrating a rapid transition from research to real-world applications. At its recent Executive Analyst Day 2024 in Pune, India, Fujitsu showcased a groundbreaking 64-qubit superconducting quantum chip and an audacious road map to a 256-qubit system by 2025 and over 1,000 qubits by 2026. Its scalable hardware, HPC legacy, multi-architecture approach, and qubit efficiency solidify its edge in this race.
December, 2024
Responsible AI: A Strategic Imperative for Enterprises in Generative AI Implementation
While AI has driven technological innovation for decades, the pressing need to integrate responsible AI (RAI) principles has surged only in the past year. Historically, RAI emerged as a distinct practice in 2018, yet many enterprises failed to prioritize AI governance, often regarding it as a compliance obligation rather than a foundational element. However, the advent of Gen AI tools such as Gemini and ChatGPT has introduced fresh risks, underscoring the critical importance of robust RAI practices in addressing issues such as intellectual property misappropriation, hallucinations, and cyberattacks.
June, 2024
IT and Apps Managed Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H1 2024
In this report, Avasant provides key information on solutions and pricing trends for the IT and apps managed services industry in the past 12 months. The report covers several aspects, including market trends, pricing model trends, and pricing and staffing trends in the space. The geographical scope of the report is global, although there is an emphasis on data points from North America. The report leverages valuable insights from our enterprise interactions, ongoing market research, data collection through primary research, and the AvaMark™ Price Benchmarking database.
June, 2024
Compliance Requirements Driving the Move to Government Clouds
The dramatic shift towards smart cities and a new digital economy is increasing the need for governments to upgrade their IT infrastructure. Cloud environments are the best way to ensure government systems are highly available and data is securely accessible. But until recently, cloud was not always an option for government entities due to strict compliance requirements. Now providers are catering to this need by setting up government clouds—sovereign data centers to employ local workers in the countries they intend to serve.
November, 2021
Government Cloud Platforms 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Government Cloud Platforms 2021–2022 RadarView™ addresses the need for government departments and agencies to leverage cloud platforms to accelerate their digital journeys, embrace the cloud, and identify the right cloud platform providers to partner with. The 33-page report also provides our point of view on how government cloud platform providers are catering to the changing needs of public sector agencies through a wide portfolio of products and services. Avasant delivers a general ranking for these providers based on the key dimensions of product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and future readiness.
November, 2021