Businesses spent an awful lot of time talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning in 2017. It appears that 2018 is shaping up to be the year the talk trails off and morphs into reality.
And that’s precisely the moment that CIOs and IT decision-makers at large companies are going to realize that for all the attention they’ve paid to enabling AI in their business, they may have neglected the critical resource that fuels it: Data.
Data is always on the mind of Eric Schrock, CTO at Delphix, the Redwood City, Calif.-based company that since 2008 has worked to make data easier to work with and more accessible to the people who need it. Whatever business you’re in, chances are you’re dreaming of a near future where that business is made better by AI, and Schrock says that means that whether you know it or not, you have an unquenchable thirst for data that’s quickly going to rise to the top of your priority list.
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Source: IT Strategy