Mary E. Shacklett

InformationWeek

AI network readiness: Is your infrastructure prepared?

By: Mary E. Shacklett

AI workloads can strain enterprise networks. Here's how CIOs and network leaders can prepare infrastructure for AI demands.

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Navigating energy management strategies in AI data centers

By: Mary E. Shacklett

Data center energy use conditions have changed, but the fundamentals of measuring energy consumption and costs have not.

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From network monitoring to AI agents: A practical roadmap

By: Mary E. Shacklett

Network logjams are growing as monitoring, observability, AIOps and AI access overlap. Here's how to clear the clutter.

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Nemours Children's Health scales hospital-at-home as an operating model

By: Mary E. Shacklett

Nemours Children's Health scaled hospital-at-home into an enterprise care model integrated with Epic to improve capacity, workflows and care delivery.

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Can AI agents solve monitoring and scaling crises on the network?

By: Mary E. Shacklett

Network teams struggle with daily data and telemetry overload, but are they ready to trust AI agents with more operations? Four steps can help prepare.

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AI project management: Why traditional methods fall short

By: Mary E. Shacklett

Learn how AI project management differs from traditional IT project management in planning, staffing, governance and long-term oversight.

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Data center sustainability: What are renewable energy credits?

By: Mary E. Shacklett

In January 2026, a congressional report found that data center energy consumption accounted for about 4.4% of total U.S. energy use in 2023 and was expected to triple by 2028.

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QA is struggling to keep pace with AI app development

By: Mary E. Shacklett

The QA process for application deployment isn't keeping up with the speed of AI coding. Here are five steps to speeding up QA in the AI era.

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IT/OT convergence training and certification: A practical guide

By: Mary E. Shacklett

IT/OT convergence has moved from a "wishful" business strategy to a requisite technology that drives the speed of business and is the technology of the future, but what happened to change that?

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The road to automation: Exploring lights-out data centers

By: Mary E. Shacklett

The concept of a "lights-out" data center, which is fully automated and operates without human assistance, lacks consensus among data center managers.