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A Contrarian View

A rarely updated blog, home of (sometimes very long) posts against conventional wisdom:

  • Amazon has won enterprise IT management
    January 31, 2023
  • 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
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Now on YouTube, too...
Big Projects
Synthetic Work
A weekly newsletter for business leaders to understand how AI is changing the way we work.
Le Voci dell'AI
Ten minutes a week, in Italian, about artificial intelligence.
Fake Show
An experimental podcast featuring the most realistic synthetic voices today's AI models can generate.
H+
A research project on human enhancement technologies like neural interfaces, augmented reality, biohacking, bionic prosthetics, genetic engineering, nanorobotics, tissue engineering, and wearables.
Unstable Reality
An R&D company focused on artificial intelligence.
Smaller Projects
Startups Worth Watching
A tracker of startups with enormous potential, curated by Alessandro.
Life-Changing Books
For one year, every week, Alessandro asked friends, colleagues, and acquaintances:
"What is the book that changed your life?"
The Brain
A collection of the most interesting passages and charts Alessandro finds in books and articles on a daily basis.
Artificial Intelligence for Art
A series of original artworks Alessandro generated with the help of various AI models to further complicate the answer to the already spiny question:
"What is Art?"
Automation for AI
How do media companies and artists generate sophisticated AI images at industrial scale? Alessandro created an automation workflow with ComfyUI to show you.
Podcasts
Jobs 2.0: The AI Upgrade
Let's talk about what's the real impact of AI on jobs, how to address the workforce FUD and upskilling needs, and how AI is impacting the career outlook of our kids.
In the Press
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mentions Alessandro as a subject matter expert in artificial intelligence in a new research paper:
Why They’re Worried
Milano Finanza interviews Alessandro about the Future of Life Institute (FLI) open letter he signed:
ChatGPT, l’intelligenza artificiale è davvero una minaccia o rimane un affare miliardario?
Financial Times quotes Alessandro about the impact of automation on human labor:
How cloud automation is changing IT: repair, replicate and correct
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Bio
Alessandro is a contrarian thinker with 23 years of business and product experience in the enterprise IT industry, and a track record in identifying hugely profitable markets and new use cases for emerging technologies ahead of time.

Alessandro also has a track record in identifying over-hyped emerging technologies that eventually have little to no business impact.
Things Alessandro has done so far:

  • Tech executive, focused on business and product strategy for Red Hat
  • 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
Alessandro also is:

  • A public speaker with two decades of experience on stage delivering almost 500 keynotes
  • An inventor⭑
  • An art collector and a former corporate sponsor⭑ for Tate
Alessandro Is
an Expert In
Artificial Intelligence
Automation & Orchestration
Cloud Computing
Cybersecurity
Enterprise IT Management
Open Source
Synthetic Media & Disinformation
Virtualization
Alessandro Is
Passioned About
Augmented Reality
Autonomous Vehicles
Behavioral Economics
Cognitive Psychology
Fine Arts
Genetic Engineering
Human Body Enhancement
Industrial Design
Interior Design
Mass Surveillance
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Self-Publishing
UI & UX Design
Wearable Computing
Alessandro
Built
Project Wisdom
The first application of generative AI to automation in the IT industry: a large language model used to generate Ansible automation workflows (now called Ansible Lightspeed).
Ansible Security Automation
An open source-based solution to integrate and orchestrate 3rd party cybersecurity solutions through Ansible.
virtualization.info
From 2003 to 2010, the most authoritative online publication about virtualization worldwide, counting 7 million visitors per year.
Alessandro Invented
US Patent 10778701
Mitigating cyber-attacks by automatically coordinating responses from cyber-security tools.
Alessandro's
Essays
  • Amazon has won enterprise IT management
  • 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
Alessandro's
Research
  • Climbing the Cloud Orchestration Curve
  • Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Management Platforms
  • Devising a Cloud Application Onboarding Strategy
Alessandro
on Stage
No Experience Required
Alessandro
on Twitter
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