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Steve McDowell

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
As seen in: NAND Research, Forbes, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo Singapore, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Finance Canada, Yahoo Finance Singapore, Flipboard, Kansas City Star, Lawrence Journal-World and
Covers:  Enterprise IT Infrastructure: servers/storage/networking, AI/ML, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Database & Analytics, Observability
Industry Analyst | Podcaster | Road-Tripper | Passion for my guitars, passport & cameras

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Steve McDowell is a technologist with over 25 years of deep industry experience in a variety of strategy, engineering, and strategic marketing roles, all with the unifying theme of delivering data, storage and systems technologies into the enterprise market. Most recently, Steve was vice president and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, where he worked directly with tier-one technology companies including Amazon Web Services, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), IBM, …

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Qualcomm’s AI Data Center Bet: Inside The Dragonfly Strategy

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By Steve McDowell
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Cristiano Amon, chief executive officer of Qualcomm Inc.© 2026 Bloomberg Finance LP The economics of artificial intelligence are shifting, placing the data center under strain. Agentic AI, in which software agents chain together dozens of model calls to complete a single task, has turned inference from a modest tax into the dominant workload.
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Qualcomm’s AI Data Center Bet: Inside The Dragonfly Strategy Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Cristiano Amon, chief executive officer of Qualcomm Inc. © 2026 Bloomberg Finance LP The economics of artificial intelligence are shifting, placing the data center under strain. Agentic AI, in which software agents chain together dozens of model calls to complete a single task, has turned inference from a modest tax into the dominant workload.
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Oracle Targets AI Security With Database-First Protection Strategy Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
AI has compressed the vulnerability lifecycle from discovery to exploitation, enabling attackers to identify weaknesses, generate exploit code, and launch campaigns at machine speed. According to the 2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report, the average attack breakout time is now just 29 minutes, a 65% increase in speed since 2024. AI-enabled adversaries have increased their activity by more than 89%.
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