The Diversity Blog – SaaS, Cloud & Business Strategy

Enterprise AI has reached an interesting point in its evolution. For the past couple of years organisations have largely been experimenting. They’ve rolled out copilots, deployed chatbots, automated meeting notes and helped employees draft emails they probably didn’t want to write in the first place. Developers have embraced coding assistants, marketers have discovered conten...

Almost 20 years ago, in the early years of cloud computing, the handful of us analysts who covered the space started talking about “single panes of glass.” The idea being that in a world typified by multiple platforms, infrastructure approaches and environments, having a single dashboard and control panel would give visibility and governance to users.

That conversation...

I’m not a patient person. While I could wax poetic about the reason for my impatience being an awareness of how short life is and a desire to move the needle, the reality is that taking time to be still, to smell the roses and enjoy quietness, isn’t my strong suit.

I also have a hobby making furniture....

It was past midnight when I found myself standing at the lounge window, watching a small machine quietly navigate the far corner of my orchard. I hadn’t asked it to do this. It had simply decided the grass needed cutting and got on with it. I stood there for longer than I’ll admit, and somewhere in that oddly peaceful moment, it struck me that this was exactly the kind of thi...

San Diego has a way of making things feel more consequential than they are. But standing in the conference hall this week, watching the FinOps Foundation announce the Tokenomics Foundation and unveil FOCUS 1.4, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something genuinely important was happening, and that not everyone in the room had clocked it yet.

Let’s be honest about somet...