Month: August 2022

Virgin Media O2 JV Infrastructure Investment Accelerates UK Broadband Gold Rush

by Rob Pritchard, posted in Network
R. Pritchard

Summary Bullets:

• Virgin Media O2 joins InfraVia Capital Partners to spend GBP4.5 billion on a fiber wholesale joint venture (JV) to offer connectivity to up to seven million premises

• As with any other gold rushes, the only guaranteed winners are the folks supplying spades, diggers, and other infrastructure provision services

Virgin Media O2 has announced a partnership with InfraVia Capital Partners to form a JV deal, which is expected to close in Q4 2022 to build a full-fiber network to provide connectivity to up to seven million premises as a complementary geographical expansion to Virgin Media O2’s existing target of 15.5 million premises – delivering a UK fiber footprint of 80% coverage on completion. The focus of the 50:50 JV will be to offer wholesale connectivity services both to Virgin Media O2 (as anchor tenant) and to other communications and internet service providers. The timing of the announcement when BT Openreach employees were on strike is more than a coincidence. Continue reading “Virgin Media O2 JV Infrastructure Investment Accelerates UK Broadband Gold Rush” →

Managing AI with Speed and Scale: Tibco Launches a ModelOps Platform

by wstofega, posted in Big Data
Will Stofega – Principal Analyst, Advanced Analytics

Summary Bullets:

• Tibco’s ModelOps will help businesses ensure that the value of ‘the AI Model’ can be retained and improved throughout the model’s lifecycle.

• The complexity of AI can slow the deployment of models. Tibco’s ModelOps allows even non-programmers to move a model from development to deployment.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become a must-have tool for businesses. While AI has enabled businesses to gain new insights into their performance, its management and operational aspects have lagged behind, creating bottlenecks in deployment. In addition, companies are carrying a large amount of under-deployed and unrefreshed models that drain budgets and add to what is often referred to as ‘model debt.’ Some of these AI models are not utilizing the most recent data or have drifted away from their original business purpose. AI models and data sets continue to grow in size and complexity, requiring larger teams of software engineers to transform a model into an application.

Continue reading “Managing AI with Speed and Scale: Tibco Launches a ModelOps Platform” →