Zeus Kerravala

Zeus Kerravala is a principal analyst at ZK Research, a division of Kerravala Consulting.

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The DP World Tour tees off a new era of connectivity by tapping Amazon Leo

The DP World Tour will become the first professional sports organization to use Amazon Leo as its official satellite connectivity partner, deploying low Earth orbit or LEO terminals at tournament venues starting in 2026. The network uses more than 3,000 LEO satellites to deliver high-speed internet to locations underserved — or completely unserved — by terrestrial infrastructure. ...
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Five takeaways from CEO Shantanu Narayen’s final keynote at Adobe Summit

The 2026 edition of Adobe Summit this week marks a historic turning point for the software giant. It not only showcased the next frontier of “agentic artificial intelligence” but also served as the swan song for Shantanu Narayen, who delivered his final keynote as chief executive. Narayen, who has steered Adobe through the transition to ...
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AI in coding: Five takeaways from Cursor COO Jordan Topoleski’s fireside chat at NTT Upgrade

The theme of NTT Research Inc.‘s annual user event, Upgrade, in San Jose this week was “Research to Reality,” a reflection of NTT’s desire to balance the academic nature of research with the practicality of ensuring the outcome is something customers can use and benefit from. One of the more interesting sessions was a fireside chat moderated by ...
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How Zscaler and OpenAI turn zero-trust security into an AI accelerator

Zscaler Inc.‘s new partnership with OpenAI Group PBC has the potential to transform the security firm’s cloud-native zero-trust platform into an engine that can both harden its own stack and help customers deploy artificial intelligence with confidence at large scale. Understanding the news Zscaler has joined OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber or TAC program, gaining access to security-tuned ...
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The user interface of the future is your voice: Inside 8×8’s AI Studio

For years, the promise of “no-code” artificial intelligence has felt a bit like a “some assembly required” IKEA desk — sure, you aren’t sawing the wood yourself, but you’re trying to decipher how to assemble dozens of parts, many of which seem to fit poorly. With communications, low-code often had a nice user interface, but ...
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Zoom Perspectives: Why ‘agentic’ work is the new enterprise standard

I had been waiting for the 2026 edition of Zoom Communications Inc.‘s Perspectives, its recently held annual get-together for industry analysts, because I find Zoom to be the most interesting vendor in the communications business today. Though it has many competitors, its product roadmap has been markedly different. Other unified-communications-as-a-service and contact-center-as-a-service providers have been ...

How the NFL is using Amazon Quick to humanize the offseason

For years, the National Football League offseason was a period defined by information asymmetry. While front offices sat behind “glass walls” in war rooms, armed with proprietary Next Gen Stats and sophisticated modeling tools, the average fan was left to navigate a fragmented landscape of mock drafts, cap calculators, PDF guides and Twitter rumors. Last ...
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The AI infrastructure bottleneck: Why ‘good enough’ Kubernetes isn’t cutting it anymore

While security eyes are on the RSAC conference in San Francisco this week, the compute world is focused on KubeCon EU in Amsterdam. But the theme of artificial intelligence is the pervasive across both, as in enterprise information technology we’ve reached a point where “AI curiosity” has officially been replaced by “AI urgency.” Every chief information officer ...
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The agentic workforce is here: Why Cisco just put a ‘Claw’ on AI security

The RSAC cybersecurity conference is this week and for the last two years, the conversation at the event has revolved around generative artificial intelligence — that is, models we talk to, and they talked back and act as a copilot. At RSAC 2026, there has been a definite change in topic as the world has been shifting ...
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The agentic era: How Palo Alto Networks is turning security into a business enabler

For years, the relationship between cybersecurity and business innovation has been a zero-sum game. Security teams were the “Department of No,” tasked with slowing down adoption to ensure safety. Given the business pressure to get artificial intelligence deployed, the security industry has been trying to flip this script by rethinking security along platform lines. With ...