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Veeam’s big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:46:45 +0000

Veeam Software Group GmbH used VeeamON 2026 in New York City this week to punctuate its shift from “the backup company” to a data and artificial intelligence trust platform for the agentic era. With a new architectural layer and an aggressive product roadmap, Chief Executive Anand Eswaran (pictured) and President of Products and Technology Rehan Jalil are betting […]

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AIR, ARR and AI: Inside RingCentral’s transformation into an AI-first engagement platform

Zeus Kerravala — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:54:15 +0000

RingCentral Inc.‘s latest quarter shows a company that has quietly turned artificial intelligence from a future story into its primary engine for product differentiation, operational leverage and, increasingly, growth. What started as a unified-communications-as-a-service provider is evolving into an AI-first customer engagement platform, with RingCentral AIR and related products at the front door of every conversation. Steady top […]

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Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: Thoughts from Arvind Krishna’s keynote at IBM Think

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:15:53 +0000

At this year’s IBM Think, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna’s keynote focused on artificial intelligence’s impact on the modern enterprise. Instead of the usual tour through features and roadmaps, his talk challenged information technology leaders. The real divide in the next decade won’t be between those who do and don’t use AI, but between those who rebuild their […]

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Nvidia’s MRC: When ‘just Ethernet’ isn’t enough for gigascale AI

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:30:59 +0000

Nvidia Corp.‘s latest networking innovations meet the needs of a new kind of network that supports the unique demands of artificial intelligence factories. Ethernet is no longer a generic plumbing choice but an enabler of high-performance AI. With today’s unveiling of Multipath Reliable Connection, or MRC, on Spectrum-X Ethernet, Nvidia is pushing Ethernet even deeper into […]

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Extreme Connect 2026: Agentic AI, Platform ONE and the next phase of enterprise networking

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:32:55 +0000

Extreme Networks Inc. used its Extreme Connect 2026 user conference this week to make a strong case that artificial intelligence-driven networking has finally arrived. Building on Platform ONE, the company rolled out a full-stack vision spanning new Wi-Fi 7 access points, enhanced fabric-ready switching and a second-generation artificial intelligence layer called Agent ONE, designed to act […]

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RingCentral raises the CX bar with branded messaging, AI and embedded Teams calling

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:34:51 +0000

Customer experience used to be something tuned at the edges. Better call center scripts, nicer portals, lower prices or a new survey could make incremental improvements in consumers’ perceptions of a brand. Today, it starts much earlier because every interaction across the channels customers use every day matters. Text, voice and messaging are no longer […]

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How T-Mobile’s private 5G network is changing the game for Major League Baseball

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:00:29 +0000

Major League Baseball opened the 2026 season with a technological first: the Automated Ball-Strike or ABS Challenge System, powered by T-Mobile’s private 5G network, is now deployed across all 29 U.S. ballparks. While headlines focus on umpire challenges and strike zones, the real story for information technology professionals lies beneath the surface — in the […]

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Amazon Connect’s second act: From contact center to agentic AI suite

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:00:09 +0000

It has been just under a decade since Amazon Web Services Inc. launched Amazon Connect, taking its own internal contact center-as-a-service solution and commercialized it. At the time, there were many doubts about whether it could succeed in a mature market with several established vendors. The company loaded Connect up with artificial intelligence features long before AI […]

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Cisco’s Universal Quantum Switch and the rise of the quantum fabric

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:49:47 +0000

Cisco Systems Inc.’s new Universal Quantum Switch introduced last week is a strong proof point regarding the network’s importance in scaling quantum. For information technology leaders, the key takeaway is that quantum is shifting from isolated computing hardware to an interconnected fabric, and Cisco has been positioning itself as the core quantum interconnect for whatever qubit technologies ultimately […]

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From GPUs to AI factories: Inside the Nvidia-Google Cloud superstack

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:33:31 +0000

Nvidia Corp. and Google LLC used the search giant’s annual Cloud Next event to deepen their long-running partnership, creating a full-stack “artificial intelligence factory” that integrates Google’s AI Hypercomputer infrastructure with Nvidia’s latest solutions, including Blackwell, open models and agentic and physical AI tooling. With this announcement, Google expands its distribution of Nvidia’s accelerated computing stack, […]

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

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:01:31 +0000

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

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:21:24 +0000

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

Zeus Kerravala — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:25:24 +0000

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

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:32:13 +0000

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

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:22:20 +0000

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

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:36:37 +0000

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 […]

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How the NFL is using Amazon Quick to humanize the offseason

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:05 +0000

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

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:56:16 +0000

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

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:26:44 +0000

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

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:30:47 +0000

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 […]

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The convergence of context: Why Nvidia’s BlueField-4 STX marries the network and storage admin

Zeus Kerravala — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:52:14 +0000

For years, the “wall” between storage and networking administrators has been a fixture of the enterprise data center. I spent the early part of my career as a network engineer and the arena of storage was a bit of a black box, and for most companies, that’s still the case. This is because these networks […]

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The AI workforce is now ‘hirable’: How Nvidia is rewiring healthcare from the inside out

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:27:20 +0000

As an industry, healthcare tends to be slow-moving and significantly behind others. There are many reasons for this, including budgets, availability of technology and the fact that any errors in healthcare can result in lost lives. Healthcare transformation has been a big part of past Nvidia GTC conferences, and it was again this year. In fact, […]

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The intelligent green: How AWS and the PGA Tour are reimagining the fan experience through agentic AI

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:22:40 +0000

The intersection of professional sports and cloud computing has enabled leagues and organizations to accelerate innovation. However, the partnership between the PGA Tour and Amazon Web Services Inc. is currently entering a new phase: the hyper-personalized era. This week the golf world descended upon TPC Sawgrass for THE PLAYERS Championship, to watch Cam Young take […]

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Beyond the plumbing: How Cisco and Nvidia are industrializing the ‘token economy’

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:30:50 +0000

The initial phase of the artificial intelligence gold rush was defined by “The Build.” Hyperscalers and model builders raced to secure every available Nvidia Corp. H100 GPU, constructing massive, centralized cathedrals of compute. But as the industry descends from the peak of inflated expectations toward real-world utility, the conversation is shifting. AI is moving from […]

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The 6G horizon: Can AI finally solve the telco monetization paradox?

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:45:52 +0000

As one would expect, artificial intelligence was a top theme at the recent MWC conference in Barcelona, but 6G was certainly prominent as well. This year, the discussions has pivoted from the maturation of 5G wireless networks to the “seamless path” toward 6G. But for those of us who have spent the better part of two decades […]

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The convergence crisis: Why AI adoption demands a new architectural blueprint

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:51:16 +0000

Enterprises are currently fighting a two-front war. On one side, there is an aggressive push toward AI adoption; on the other, an infrastructure landscape so fractured across edge, cloud and on-premises sites that scaling becomes nearly impossible. This “complexity tax” is stalling innovation. For the modern operations team, the dream of lightning-fast artificial intelligence is […]

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Beyond the fan experience: How Wi-Fi 7 is redefining the modern stadium

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:26:41 +0000

For years, the industry conversation around stadium technology has been stuck on a single, albeit important, metric: How many thousands of fans can simultaneously post a selfie to Instagram? Though the “connected stadium” was once a differentiator, it has rapidly become a baseline requirement. I recently talked to the leadership at Ruckus Networks and the […]

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Zoom at Enterprise Connect 2026: From meeting tool to agentic work orchestrator

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:00:37 +0000

The communications industry is filled with vendors that once dominated one aspect of the “stack” but have been focused on building a unified platform that includes voice, video, meetings, contact center and much more. But the most interesting vendor in the market is Zoom Communications Inc. Zoom has not only broadened the scope of what […]

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HPE flexes some Juniper muscle at MWC26

Zeus Kerravala — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:12:21 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced new networking, compute hardware, cloud operations software and financing updates for service providers at this past week’s MWC26 in Barcelona. The updates center on meeting the new demands being created by artificial intelligence reshaping every aspect of network design — from centralized data centers to distributed edge environments. AI adoption is driving […]

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The infrastructure bottleneck: Why enterprise AI needs a ‘hyperspeed’ pivot

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:59:22 +0000

We are squarely in the artificial intelligence event season with MWC just wrapping up and Nvidia GTC and RSAC on deck. The talk of every show this year has been about moving AI from vision to reality. However, it’s often the case that the transition from AI experimentation to production-grade, value-generating systems hits a wall because […]

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