Moving Enterprise AI From Pilot to Production With Stelia
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Moving Enterprise AI From Pilot to Production With Stelia

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 11, 202634 min
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Why do promising AI pilots struggle when they become services that real customers depend on? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I'm joined by David Hughes, Chief Technology Officer at Stelia, to talk about the engineering decisions behind enterprise AI deployment. Dave's responsibilities cover networking, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing products, giving him a view of what happens when an application meets the physical systems expected to support it. We begin with a question that can get lost in the excitement around a successful demonstration. What problem was the system designed to solve, and what...

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Well, today I'm going to be joined by Dave Hughes, Chief Technology Officer, and together we will examine why enterprise AI systems struggle when they leave pilot stage. And Dave will argue today that the failure could be hiding below the model, inside the storage throughput, the network capacity, the power availability, data movement and architectural choices made long before a first

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