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At GITEX 2023, Avaya brings generative AI to the future of customer experience
The GITEX Global show kicked off this week in Dubai. For those unfamiliar with the event, it is the largest enterprise tech show in the world, with hundreds of thousands of attendees spanning 41 halls across two venues. I have been looking forward to this show as the 2023 edition of GITEX theme is “AI ...
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It’s back to the future for Arista with new high-frequency trading switches
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
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
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
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
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 ...
MLB looks for a hit with its Virtual Ballpark metaverse experiment
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 ...
NTT Docomo and Nvidia partner to launch the first AI-powered 5G network
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
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 ...