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A Contrarian View

A rarely updated blog, home of very long posts:

  • The misleading TAM (Total Addressable Market)
    April 13, 2022
  • NoOps: Misguided Hopes, New Ideas, And Three Paths Towards An Attainable Future
    November 27, 2020

Alessandro Perilli
Alessandro Perilli
  • Strategic thinking for Red Hat. Member of the Products & Technologies leadership team.
  • Focused on multiple emerging markets and use cases:
  • Generative artificial intelligence for low-code/no-code automation
  • Event-driven automation and machine learning for self-healing IT environments
  • Blockchain (mainly Ethereum) for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
  • Deep learning and IT automation for security orchestration
  • Enterprise IT governance for hybrid cloud management
Also:
  • Founder of the H+ research project about human body augmentation technologies
  • Advisory Board member for the European Commission initiative HORIZON CLOUD
  • Member of the European AI Alliance within the European Commission
  • Inventor: US Patent 10778701 - Mitigating cyber-attacks by automatically coordinating responses from cyber-security tools
  • Keynote speaker for 20 years in a row
  • Art collector and former corporate sponsor for Tate
Formerly:
  • Global analyst, leading research in private cloud computing for Gartner
  • Entrepreneur in the media industry as the founder of virtualization.info
  • Advisor to Fortune Global 2000 companies
  • Co-author of the Cloud Computing Risk Assessment for the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
  • Author of a cybersecurity book for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
  • Creator of one of the first ethical hacking trainings in the world for Mondadori Informatica

Things I Know a Bit About

Artificial Intelligence
Automation & Orchestration
Cloud Computing
Cybersecurity
Enterprise IT Management
Virtualization
Web3

Things I’m Interested In

Augmented Reality
Autonomous Vehicles
Behavioral Economics
Cognitive Psychology
Computer Vision
Crowdsourcing
Fine Arts
Generative AI
Genetics
Home Automation
Human Body Enhancement
Industrial Design
Information Management
Interior Design
Mass Surveillance
Natural Language Processing
Neuromarketing
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Self-Manufacturing
Self-Publishing
UI & UX Design
Wearable Computing

Things I’m Building

  • H+
    A research project about human enhancement technologies like neural interfaces, augmented reality, biohacking, bionic prosthetics, genetic engineering, nanorobotics, tissue engineering, and wearables.

Things I Have Built

Ansible Security Automation
An open source-based solution to integrate and orchestrate 3rd party cybersecurity solutions through Ansible (patented).

virtualization.info
From 2003 to 2010, the most authoritative online publication about virtualization worldwide, counting 7 million visitors per year at its peak of popularity (sold).

Things I Have Invented

US Patent 10778701 (2020)
Mitigating cyber-attacks by automatically coordinating responses from cyber-security tools

Things I Wrote Here

  • Open Source for Business People
  • Analyst Relations Worst Practices
  • NoOps: Misguided Hopes, New Ideas, And Three Paths Towards An Attainable Future
  • A killer app for the VR of the future: life tourism

Things I Wrote Elsewhere

  • Climbing the Cloud Orchestration Curve
    [Gartner]
  • Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Management Platforms
    [Gartner]
  • Devising a Cloud Application Onboarding Strategy
    [Gartner]

Things I Said on Stage

  • No Experience Required

Things I Said on Twitter

November 25, 2022
RT @pharmapsychotic: #stablediffusion2 uses the OpenCLIP ViT-H model trained on the LAION dataset so it knows different things than the Ope…

November 25, 2022
👀 https://t.co/PiLzsy9Izc

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Special Projects
The Brain
How things shape the mind.
A collection of the most interesting passages and charts I find in books and articles on a daily basis.

Artificial Intelligence for Art
A series of original artworks generated with the help of various AI models to further complicate the answer to an eternal question:
What is Art?

Life-Changing Books
Every week, I ask my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances a simple question:
"What is the book that changed your life?"

Startups Worth Watching
"There are no bad ideas. There are only early ideas." - Marc Andreessen
"What about Yo?" - Me
A list of startups with enormous potential.

A Contrarian View
Where I reject popular opinions and current practices.
The misleading TAM (Total Addressable Market)
NoOps: Misguided Hopes, New Ideas, And Three Paths Towards An Attainable Future

Hard Questions
Questions worth asking that we rarely have the courage to answer.
About our Job
About our Product
About our Decision

Looking Without Seeing [BETA]
All the content above, but via a weekly newsletter.

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