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It’s back to the future for Arista with new high-frequency trading switches

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 21:20:04 +0000

High-frequency trading markets have relied on 10G infrastructure for more than a decade, and Arista Networks Inc. has been at the forefront, providing essential equipment to financial institutions such as trading firms and exchanges. In fact, it was almost 20 years ago that Arista was founded to provide networking products to the financial industry. Its […]

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Pure Storage pays the freight for storage-as-a-service and aims to simplify data resilience

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:07:57 +0000

Pure Storage Inc. today made several announcements aimed at further bringing a cloudlike operating model to storage and simplifying data resilience. First, the company released a set of data resilience offerings, including Pure Protect//DRaaS, which it says is a disaster recovery-as-a-service solution, new energy efficiency guarantees for its Evergreen products, and scalable artificial intelligence-powered storage […]

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Outside the 8½-by-11 box: Five thoughts from Zoomtopia 2023

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 21:07:13 +0000

Collaboration services provider Zoom Video Communications Inc. held its annual user event, Zoomtopia, this week in its home city of San Jose, California. This has become the event for the company to set its vision for the industry and launch new products. In 2022, Zoom used the conference to boldly launch its Mail and Calendar […]

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Veeam gets into the backup-as-a-service game for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:55:25 +0000

Veeam Software Inc. Wednesday announced a couple of new offerings in the backup-as-a-service market: Cirrus by Veeam for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure. I had a chance to get a pre-briefing with Veeam Chief Technology Officer Danny Allan and asked him what was behind this move. He said it’s primarily about giving customers the flexibility […]

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Mitel closes deal to acquire Unify from Atos

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:25:34 +0000

Unified communications provider Mitel Networks Inc. today announced it has closed on the transaction with Atos SE to purchase Unify, formerly Siemens Enterprise. In January of this year, Mitel announced it had entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Unify, expecting to close in the year’s second half. All the regulatory issues have been cleared, and the two […]

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HPE infrastructure powers the most intelligently connected and sustainable Ryder Cup yet

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 02:21:32 +0000

The 2023 Ryder Cup is being held through Oct. 1 at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome, and the event is expected to take in 250,000 spectators — most of whom will be looking to text, tweet, Instagram and Facebook. Knowing that today’s fans expect not just a good but a great […]

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MLB looks for a hit with its Virtual Ballpark metaverse experiment

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:33:08 +0000

Major League Baseball kicked off a Virtual Ballpark experience for a Sept. 20 game between the Angels and Rays that uses startling 3D graphics to depict baseball games in real time. Built in partnership with British metaverse company Improbable, it’s not without its early bugs, since the Virtual Ballpark UI was a little choppy. But like […]

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NTT Docomo and Nvidia partner to launch the first AI-powered 5G network

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 02:43:37 +0000

Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo broke new ground this week at MWC Las Vegas by deploying the first 5G network to use graphics processing unit-accelerated wireless technology in a commercial setting. The deployment is the product of collaboration under the 5G Open RAN Ecosystem Experience, or OREX, service brand, combining the efforts of 13 tech companies, including […]

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AI and security headline Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk, but other synergies exist

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 06:03:00 +0000

If data is king of this artificial intelligence-driven world, Cisco Systems Inc. is making a play for the throne with its acquisition of Splunk Inc., long-rumored and finally announced this morning. Cisco has been expanding from its hardware roots over the past few years, and this all-cash $28 billion acquisition will push it even further […]

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Employers take note: HP study finds the business-employee relationship is broken

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:11:24 +0000

HP Inc. just released its first annual study exploring the relationship between employees and work, particularly the gap between evolving work expectations and reality, and that gap is surprisingly wide on a range of drivers for a healthy relationship. The research covers more than 50 facets of work, such as the significance of work in […]

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Celona bids to unify indoor private and public wireless with neutral host service

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 15:00:43 +0000

From hotels to hospitals to universities, enterprises everywhere can relate to the longstanding problem of poor in-building public cellular service coverage. Meanwhile, they want to simplify their infrastructure. But with separate public and private wireless deployments, they’ve been moving in the wrong direction. Celona Inc. has now stepped in with an all-inclusive neutral host service with […]

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Nvidia’s cuQuantum software development kit sings PennyLane’s song

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:40:30 +0000

There is currently a tremendous amount of interest in quantum computing, which can potentially solve some of the world’s biggest problems. However, despite the feverish efforts of cloud providers, hardware manufacturers, and software industry, quantum computing is still on the drawing board. It will happen someday. But, for now, we’ll have to settle for quantum […]

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How the Boston Red Sox are looking to use generative AI to reinvent the fan experience

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:22:04 +0000

The Boston Red Sox, one of the iconic names in the world of baseball, is reinventing the fan experience. In an age of data-driven decisions and personalized outreach, the Major League Baseball team is tapping into generative artificial intelligence to revolutionize its marketing campaigns. Here’s how: Rising complexity and democratization of data The Red Sox’s […]

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Zoom launches an AI companion and introduces AI-heavy Zoom Revenue Accelerator

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:30:50 +0000

No stranger to hype, Zoom Video Communications Inc. is jumping on the generative artificial intelligence bandwagon with both feet. After introducing AI in early June for composing team chats and meeting summaries, the company on Tuesday expanded that commitment in two areas: Zoom AI Companion: Formerly known as Zoom IQ, the company describes this service […]

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At VMware Explore, Sanjay Upall shares his vision of the edge

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 02:57:36 +0000

In my VMware Explore wrap-up post, one of my key takeaways was that the edge is the next big frontier for the company. Given that, I thought examining VMware Inc.’s vision of the edge a bit more closely made sense. The afternoon keynotes were highlighted by Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager for […]

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Final thoughts from VMware Explore 2023: Broadcom, multicloud and security

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:02:27 +0000

VMware Inc.’s user event last week in Las Vegas, Explore, formerly known as VMWorld, offered a cornucopia of news, with multicloud and artificial intelligence the overarching themes. Given the pending acquisition by Broadcom Inc. and the fact that this was the first user event with Raghu Raghuram (pictured) as chief executive for a full year, I […]

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Fortinet aims to connect remote workers and distributed edges with an expanded SASE solution

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:17:03 +0000

Our research shows that an average enterprise uses 68 security tools from 32 vendors, so the platform concept has become the preferred deployment model in this world of multiple security and networking vendors since it helps simplify operations. Fortinet Inc., which has disrupted the once- undisruptable wide-area network market, today announced a number of updates […]

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As it announces new CEO, RingCentral rings up more AI with RingCX and RingSense

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:39:35 +0000

For the past few years, artificial intelligence has been front and center in the communications industry. This has been spurred further this year with the release of ChatGPT, which has put generative AI in the cross hairs. This week, on the same day that it announced a series of management changes and quarterly earnings that […]

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It’s raining RATs and dogs, with DNS as the target: How Infoblox is responding to Decoy Dog adaptations

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 22:37:31 +0000

Infoblox Inc. recently published a second threat report to provide updates on the remote access toolkit, or RAT, called “Decoy Dog,” which the company discovered in April. To establish command and control, Decoy Dog uses the Domain Name System. The company also suspects it’s a secret tool nation-states use in cyberattacks. Once Infoblox disclosed it […]

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Final thoughts from AWS Summit NYC: It was all about generative AI

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:23:51 +0000

Artificial intelligence was the focus this week at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS Summit New York, which makes sense given the massive interest in the topic since ChatGPT was launched. For example, AWS announced several updates to its managed foundational model service, Amazon Bedrock. This was just one of many announcements that make it easier for customers […]

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How Nvidia enables accelerated computing

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:20:44 +0000

Everywhere we look these days, data-intensive applications are increasing at breakneck speed. One of the companies at the center of this development is Nvidia Corp., which has been riding high of late because of the chips it makes to power artificial intelligence. Recently, Nvidia hosted an analyst briefing, presented John Zedlewski, senior director of data […]

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Top sports CIOs provide lessons for IT operations in all industries

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:52:18 +0000

Earlier this month I attended the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Seattle, home of the Mariners. As part of my activities there, I moderated a sports CIO summit hosted by Extreme Networks Inc., MLB’s official Wi-Fi solution provider, at Lumen Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks. This was a great venue because the team has […]

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Five thoughts from the Cisco collaboration device tour

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 03:49:06 +0000

At the end of last month, Cisco Systems Inc. invited a small group of analysts to tour its facilities in Oslo, Norway, the home of the Cisco team responsible for its device portfolio — aka “Video Valley” — primarily used with Webex software. The team, led by Snorre Kjesbu (pictured), senior vice president and general manager […]

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DDR.Live taps AWS Private 5G to catch Lightning in a Bottle

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 02:58:07 +0000

5G cellular technology has come into the spotlight in recent years, revolutionizing how businesses operate and creating new opportunities for innovation, and Amazon Web Services Inc. has stepped up to the challenge. A couple of years ago, it launched AWS Private 5G, a service that offers customers flexible pricing options ranging from a 60-day plan to one- and […]

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Contentsquare bolsters its digital experience platform in its Summer 23 release

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:25:22 +0000

Contentsquare, a provider of digital experience analytics, rolled out several notable new products and a design update for its Summer 2023 release recently annual flagship event, CX Circle London, focusing on helping organizations provide better customer experiences — both on the web and in-app. Over the past decade, brand affinity has shifted away from considerations such […]

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It’s go time for Avaya

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:00:13 +0000

Avaya LLC‘s and the International Avaya Users Group‘s annual Engage user conference in Orlando this week is the first major event for the business communications provider since it completed its financial restructuring. The company, once saddled with a massive debt load, is now in a strong position financially to execute its product roadmap and return […]

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Final thoughts from Cisco Live 2023: The platform’s the thing

Zeus Kerravala — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 03:25:50 +0000

It’s early June, so for networking professionals, it’s time for Cisco Live, Cisco Systems Inc.’s annual user event, which typically involves the announcement of a cornucopia of product news. The 2023 edition of Cisco Live was no different, although most product news was related to building broader solutions that leverage multiple products. Going back to […]

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Cisco Live’s coming next week. Here’s a preview

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 23:01:59 +0000

Cisco Systems Inc. will hold its annual Cisco Live user event next week in Las Vegas as the networking giant is coming off an impressive quarter in which Chief Executive Chuck Robbins (pictured) set a more than positive outlook for the company. Given that the secular trends of cloud, mobility and hybrid work act as […]

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Nvidia announces updates to the industrial metaverse

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 30 May 2023 20:59:12 +0000

Graphics chip and artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nvidia Corp. today used the Computex 2023 held in Taipei, Taiwan, to announce a reference workflow that uses its suite of technologies to advance the digitalization of the industrial manufacturing sector. The goal is to streamline significantly the planning, construction, operation and optimization of factories. Among other things, it’s part of a […]

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Veeam: Ransomware keeps rising, and paying fraudsters is still not the right approach

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 26 May 2023 03:05:23 +0000

Veeam used its annual user event, VeeamON, in Miami this week to release the results of some research on ransomware highlighting some alarming statistics that raise concerns for businesses of all sizes. Veeam is a backup and recovery company, so one might wonder why it’s releasing research in cyber security. The reality is, that ransomware […]

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