Tom Nolle is founder and principal analyst at Andover Intel, a consulting and analysis firm that looks at evolving technologies and applications first from the perspective of the buyer and the buyer's needs. By background, Nolle is a programmer, software architect, and manager of software and network products, and he has provided consulting services and technology analysis for decades.
He's a regular author of articles on networking, software development and cloud computing, as well as emerging technologies such as IoT, AI and the metaverse. His writing has appeared in No Jitter, IoT World Today, Network World, and multiple Tech Target publications. He publishes a public blog dedicated to the telecom, media, and technology strategy professionals, and also a series of reports on technology, market, and economic conditions.
Tom’s Reality Check blog won AZBEE awards in 2024 and 2025.
Vendors who told enterprises that AI networking would have a profound impact are proving correct.
Everything isn’t moving to the cloud because the cloud isn’t best for everything.
A single enterprise won't influence telecom standards, but a group of them can, if they work together. Support for IoT, openness, and security are few reasons why it's worth the effort.
It's hard to imagine an easy-yet-broadscale IT win to be gained from deploying any single technology like private 5G, edge computing or AI. But applied together, there's cause for excitement.
When asked which IT vendors are shaping the future of networking, a lot of enterprises said IBM, which doesn’t even make network products. What do network vendors need to do to reclaim strategic influence and generate interest and excitement?
Digital twins, linked with AI, could remake networking. The combination enables a whole new level of automation.
Enterprise IT tends to view AI agents as application components that fit into business processes and workflows with varying degrees of autonomous operation. That’s opposed to a chatbot or copilot model, which suggests more of a personal product
Enterprises that take a team approach to cloud planning are finding success in optimizing cost/benefit ratios and shortening the payback time of cloud implementation costs.
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