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HS147: Architecting Infrastructure to Meet Your AI Ambitions (Sponsored)

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Show Notes

Many a IT professional is having the AI football tossed to them, “We need to implement in house AI, go do it”. If this is you, what questions should you be asking of yourself and of leadership? Getting traction accommodating vast new workloads with new and different behaviors is a challenge, given the parameters... Read more »

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