The Chip Control Fantasy
The current push for semiconductor export controls ignores a fundamental reality: you can't undo forty years of willful technology transfer with regulations.
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Export Controls Won’t Save Anthropic’s Business Model
While Dario Amodei's recent letter about export controls and DeepSeek is carefully couched in the language of geopolitical competition, it reveals more about Anthropic's business concerns
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The DeepSeek Ultimatum
The release of DeepSeek’s open-weight AI model represents a transformative moment in enterprise technology—one that fundamentally alters the landscape of what’s possible for large organizations. Rather than
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Re-Industrialize InfraOps: Part 3
Learning from Success Stories Understanding the practical application of industrialized InfraOps can be enhanced by examining real-world examples. By exploring case studies of organizations that have successfully transitioned from traditional
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Re-Industrialize InfraOps: Part 2
Learning from the Past Understanding the necessity and potential of industrializing InfraOps requires a look back at historical precedents. Throughout history, industrialization has transformed industries, leading to unprecedented levels of
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Re-Industrializing InfraOps
Identifying the Problem Customer satisfaction is at an all-time low, with the Forrester 2024 US Customer Experience Index revealing that only 3% of companies are customer-obsessed. But this decline in
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What's Your Purpose?
What Purpose Does Your IT Infrastructure Operation Serve? In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven world, understanding the true purpose of your IT infrastructure operations is more critical than ever. IT
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Turning Chotch into Gold
Every business person knows the drill. You receive a bunch of crappy inputs from suppliers. It’s frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be a dead end. With the
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InfraOps Insights from Gleick’s 'The Information'
James Gleick’s: The Information - A History, A Theory, A Flood is a solid introductory book on “Information”. Anyone working in our space would get a lot out of
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InfraOps Digest #2
Hello everybody, Thank you for being some of the earliest readers here. Next Thursday, I'll publish another book review and draw 10 names to receive the book “A
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IT Asset Provenance Matters
The Secret to Achieving Perfect IT Asset Visibility In today's fast-paced and complex business environment, IT asset visibility is critically important for global organizations. If you don'
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René Girard’s Mimetic Theory for InfraOps
I've done introductory reading on René Girard. I'm no expert on his work, but I see an opportunity to make some relevant observations. They apply to
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