Day: March 31, 2025

Facing an Exodus of Healthcare Workers, Providers Turn to AI but are Overlooking Important Strategic Elements

by Amy Larsen DeCarlo, posted in IT Leader
Amy Larsen DeCarlo – Principal Analyst, Security and Data Center Services

Summary Bullets:

  • With the demographic that represents the biggest healthcare consumer spiking at the same time hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers are leaving the sector in droves, the industry is looking to artificial intelligence (AI).
  • An Accenture survey of healthcare provider executives found that while most are piloting AI projects, the ad hoc approaches many are taking may find them coming up short of their full potential.

There is a perfect storm hitting the healthcare industry. The population of 60- to 90-year-olds, the largest users of healthcare services, is projected to spike by 45% over the course of the next 20 years. This comes as a post-pandemic flight of healthcare workers is happening. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) projects that 900,000 nurses in the US will leave their positions by 2027.

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Post-Quantum Cryptography – The Tempest Begins

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in Communicate, Secure
S. Schuchart

Summary Bullets:

  • Governments have issued advisories as to when and how enterprises, institutions, and government agencies should begin their journey to PQC.
  • While there is much speculation as to when quantum computing will advance to become a threat, the time to act is NOW.

While the AI trend has made a lot of noise dominating headlines, the world of quantum computing has been moving forward much more quietly. More qubits, new error correction, and in general just more improvements in the field as fundamental research continues to point the way. Quantum computing will provide the means to crack some of the hardest problems in the world and will lead to advances in healthcare, chemistry, materials science, and so much more.

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AI-Powered Network Portals: SLMs, Proactive Observability, and Root Cause Analysis

by Gary Barton, posted in Network
Research Director, Enterprise Technology and Services

Summary Bullets:

  • Multiple small language models (SLMs) are likely to be more affective than one big large language model (LLM).
  • AI can offer proactive root cause analysis informed by multiple data sources.

Agentic AI has dominated the tech headlines in recent months and was the hot topic at this year’s MWC event in Barcelona (Spain). The technology will play a significant role in revolutionizing indirect sales and customer support processes across pretty much all verticals. It can also play a major part in one of the most important challenges facing telcos at the moment: automating their networks.

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GenAI Startup CoreWeave Goes Public Amid Tumultuous IPO

by Beatriz Valle, posted in Big Data, Cloud Enable, IT Leader
B. Valle

Summary Bullets:

• CoreWeave’s IPO was the first time an AI startup went public since the beginning of the generative AI (GenAI) boom.

• The IPO market has been very slow against the backdrop of an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment.

The data center operator CoreWeave made headlines as it went public last week. Its IPO, initially estimated to reach up to $32 billion, went down to $23 billion in the days prior to its stock market debut. CoreWeave rents out computing power to big tech companies building out large language models (LLMs). The company relies heavily on two major customers: Microsoft and OpenAI. The latter, alongside Nvidia, is a stakeholder in CoreWeave.

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