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The Infrastructure for the Era of AI video series presents insights and best practices on the trends and developments in AI infrastructure, the driving forces behind AI innovation, and their potential impact on business strategies.
As it stands, 2024 looks to be quite the year for AI, somehow even more promising than originally anticipated. With the rapid pace of technological advancements, AI infrastructure has become more diverse and widespread. Current research reveals that 95 percent of organizations plan to expand their usage of AI within the next two years. From cloud to edge, CPUs to GPUs, and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), the AI hardware and software landscape is growing very fast.
Microsoft and Forrester Consulting have created a five-part video series to help Microsoft Azure partners stay current with AI trends and learn more about best practices for helping customers develop and implement large-scale and efficient AI systems.
Infrastructure for the Era of AI is hosted by Omar Khan from Microsoft and Mike Gualteri from Forrester Consulting. Khan and Gualteri explore the state of AI infrastructure, including the driving forces behind AI innovation and their potential impact on business strategies. Watch the video series to:
Click on the episodes below to watch each recording.
Episode 1: AI Implementation Stages
Omar and Mike explore how a company’s early AI adoption stage impacts its challenges, priorities, and skilling requirements.
Episode 2: AI Infrastructure Challenges
Learn how AI infrastructure challenges -- emphasizing integrated platforms, proper training, the role of AI partners, and evolving infrastructure needs -- all impact how an organization makes infrastructure decisions.
Episode 3: The IT Pro Viewpoint
Discover how IT professionals embrace AI, focusing on strategic roles, industry needs, integration across environments, cost optimization, and ethics.
Episode 4: Building AI Confidence
How confident are IT professionals about AI adoption? Omar and Mike discuss how to build AI confidence, emphasizing optimism, practical implementation, skilling, and training and focusing on areas with clear ROI to reduce operational pain.
Episode 5: Impact of Culture on AI Progression
Omar and Mike explore AI's cultural impact, integration into business strategy, and the need for technical and soft skills.
Watch the video series to learn how Microsoft Azure is redefining cloud infrastructure to prepare every business to harness the power of AI.