How can technology leaders ensure they’re keeping up with innovative technology (such as Edge computing and Continuous intelligence) in the data and analytics sphere?
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Yep, exactly. One of the best ways to enable people to make choices and to limit their risk in doing so is to make the consumption and divestiture a little bit more straightforward. By lowering those barriers to entry and allowing people to gain access to better, wider perspectives, adopt it more quickly, release it more quickly, reduce the overhead associated with owning and managing that, I assume that will create a more successful secondary market than if AWS, Google, Amazon and Ali Cloud are going to own the entire thing. But I will say that there are plenty of early mornings where I wake up questioning that assumption, even though I believe it with all of my fiber, I still wake up wondering, is that how it's going to be long-term?
I had a long call with a guy who's a partner at a large PE firm in the data center space. He wanted my opinion on Edge and investing in Edge. It's funny, but the first thing I told him is I said, "Don't listen to me." The reason I told him that is because anybody that comes to you saying that they know what exactly is going to happen at the Edge is lying to you because nobody knows.
That's right. Yeah. I was talking to a peer the other day; he said there's a pony in there somewhere, but we don't know what it looks like.
All we can do is attempt to pick a horse and use trend analysis, use historical adoption criteria, and attempt to use buyer sentiment. Some of us know that better than others maybe. It's like trying to be the weather service and saying, "A butterfly flapped its wings in Shanghai and it rained in Tokyo, so it's going to be a cloudy day in New York next week."
It's hard, but I think the key thing is you don't get to sit around and wait. You have to pick a path. And so it's okay to fail. Fail first is always good, but don't sit on your hands.