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  • AI Is Moving Off the Screen. Is Your Infrastructure Ready?

    AI Is Moving Off the Screen. Is Your Infrastructure Ready?

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    James Walter

    For years, artificial intelligence mostly lived in software. It answered questions.It summarized documents.It generated images.It wrote code.It searched, predicted, recommended, and automated. But the next phase of AI is becoming much more physical. AI is starting to move from chat windows into warehouses, factories, hospitals, retail environments, logistics hubs, data centers, and field operations. Instead…

  • Fighting Fraud

    Fighting Fraud

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    James Walter

    Enterprise hardware moves through a complicated path before it reaches a rack: OEMs, contract manufacturers, distributors, brokers, logistics providers, refurbishers, resellers, data centers, and eventually ITAD or recycling channels. That complexity creates speed and flexibility, but it also creates room for fraud. For buyers of servers, storage, networking equipment, drives, memory, and replacement components, fraud…

  • The AI Hardware nightmare

    The AI Hardware nightmare

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    James Walter

    The technological landscape is currently navigating the largest infrastructure investment cycle in history. Globally, the major hyperscalers—including Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle—are projected by research firms like the Dell’Oro Group to spend a combined $602 billion on capital expenditures, with roughly 75% of that massive capital pool directly targeting artificial intelligence infrastructure. However, this…