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Cisco works with the USGA to network-enable the U.S. Open

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:32:54 +0000

Earlier this month the United States Golf Association held the 2024 U.S. Open Golf Championship, widely regarded as the toughest test in professional golf. Given the high-profile nature of the event, the underlying network that supports it had to be equally tough. On the Friday of the U.S. Open, Rob Neumann, head of sponsorships technology, […]

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C1 moves its AI solution Elly from product to platform

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:30:41 +0000

Tech solutions provider C1, formerly ConvergeOne, in March launched a generative artificial intelligence-powered tool called Elly that has helped organizations better use their data, including previously inaccessible data locked in different business systems. Now, C1 is expanding Elly into a fully managed platform to keep up with the growing demand for gen AI tools. Elly improves customer […]

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In a pair of announcements, Pure Storage looks to help customers with AI and ransomware

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:17:10 +0000

Pure Storage made a couple of significant announcements last week at its annual user event, Pure Accelerate, in Las Vegas. First, the company said it had released three new advanced storage-as-a-service service level agreements for the Pure Storage platform: cyber recovery, resilience and site rebalance. The company also announced new capabilities in the Pure Storage platform […]

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Zscaler Zenith Live ‘24 touts breach predictions, zero trust and expanded partnership with Google

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:55:46 +0000

Zscaler Inc.‘s Las Vegas Zenith Live ‘24 event in Las Vegas last week featured a wide range of news, from zero-trust security to a new breach detector. Most of the news was unveiled during the keynotes, which featured several executives, including Chief Executive Jay Chaudhry (pictured), Deepen Desai, chief security officer and head of security […]

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NICE customers provide best practices for adopting AI in the contact center

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:14:43 +0000

Customer experience improvement remains a top initiative for business and information technology leaders. The stakes are high in CX. My research has found that 95% of companies now compete on CX and, last year, two-thirds of millennials admitted to switching brands because of a single bad experience. Contact centers and the customer experience professionals who […]

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Splunk report finds downtime still costs big money

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:26:55 +0000

Unplanned downtime — whether it involves minor service interruptions or major system outages — extends far beyond technical glitches. Downtime affects the foundation of business operations and profitability, resulting in long-term consequences. Splunk Inc. analyzed unplanned downtime’s financial and nonfinancial implications by surveying 2,000 executives from some of the world’s largest companies — the Global 2000. The […]

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Five thoughts from Cisco Live 2024

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:07:52 +0000

Cisco Live was held last week in what has become my second home, Las Vegas. I had dubbed this the most important Cisco Live in the Chuck Robbins era, as the company is looking to put a stake in the artificial intelligence ground. Simultaneously, Cisco Systems Inc. is integrating its Splunk acquisitions and reshaping the […]

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CEO Anand Eswaran delivers his data resilience vision in a wide-ranging keynote at VeeamON 24

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 04:45:27 +0000

At VeeamON 24 last week in Florida, the opening general session was kicked off by Tamecka McKay, chief information officer for the City of Fort Lauderdale, who touted the city as an economic hub with industries as diverse as aviation, technology, finance, marine, and tech — and no state tax. The city is also home to […]

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Arista releases Etherlink platforms for AI networking focused on large clusters

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:36:51 +0000

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Arista Networks Inc. as a publicly traded company, and to celebrate, the company held a special event at the New York Stock Exchange, which is not only the exchange that trades ANET stock but also one of the early Arista customers. However, the shindig at the NYSE wasn’t […]

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Five9 integrates with Salesforce to evolve into a CX platform

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 21:56:52 +0000

Customer Contact Week, being held in Las Vegas this week, has evolved from focusing on hard-core contact centers to a broader customer experience event. This aligns with the contact-center-as-a-service or CCaaS providers’ direction, where their products have expanded beyond the traditional agent to other customer-facing roles. Five9 today took a big step in this direction by entering […]

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Cisco Live Day 1 news brings together networking and security

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:06:00 +0000

The 2024 edition of Cisco Systems Inc.’s global user event Cisco Live is particularly important, as artificial intelligence has redefined networking, security, observability and collaboration. The fundamental tenet of my research is that share shifts happen when markets transition, putting the incumbent vendors at risk if they don’t evolve with the industry. In the past, Cisco has […]

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HPE looks to speed up enterprise private cellular deployments with new Aruba Networking offering

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 23:11:08 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced today the launch of HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G, an offering designed to assist customers in expediting and streamlining the deployment and management of private 5G networks. The company said the offering will deliver reliable wireless coverage across enterprises, resulting in previously unimagined applications. I had the opportunity to receive […]

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AI, AI and more AI: A deep dive into Nvidia’s announcements at Computex 2024

Zeus Kerravala — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 14:51:39 +0000

Nvidia Corp. today unveiled a series of advancements in artificial intelligence technology at Computex 2024, where it’s showcasing its latest innovations in consumer computing, accelerated computing, networking, enterprise computing, and industrial digitalization. From new AI laptops to the powerful Blackwell platform and the Spectrum-X Ethernet network, Nvidia’s announcements at Computex offer a comprehensive view of the future […]

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What to expect at Cisco Live 2024 edition

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:14:24 +0000

The annual Cisco Live 2024, to be held June 2-6 in Las Vegas, will boast Elton John as the music artist performing at the Wednesday night celebration event, as well as seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and Formula 1 driver Oscar Piastri as special guests. However, while those names create exciting entertainment, the more than […]

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Five takeaways from IBM Think 2024

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:02:11 +0000

IBM Corp.‘s annual Think event in Boston showed how the company has had a complete facelift in the era of Chief Executive Arvind Krishna. Krishna (pictured) has used the boom in artificial intelligence to reposition the company around Watson and make that the focal point of IBM’s next platform. I left Think 2024 more positive about […]

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Juniper adds end-user experience enhancements, network remediation and access control to AI-native platform

Zeus Kerravala — Sat, 18 May 2024 17:00:30 +0000

Juniper Networks Inc. announced enhancements this week to its AI-Native Networking Platform, aimed at adding value to its cloud-hosted products. These products use Mist AI to optimize user experiences and simplify operations, as well as network assistant Marvis. The new features detect and fix network, application and security issues, which enables customers to anticipate user needs. The […]

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Behind the numbers: five facts about Cisco’s quarter

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 16 May 2024 15:20:24 +0000

The day after Cisco Systems Inc. announced its third-quarter 2024 earnings, investors are wavering on the results, as the stock was falling 2% this morning, reversing a 5% jump after-hours Monday. The company reported revenue of $12.7 billion, down 13% year-over-year — 16% without Splunk — and $70 million ahead of consensus estimates. Gross margins remain […]

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At RSA Conference, AWS brings updates to Amazon Security Lake

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:12:20 +0000

The RSA Conference 2024 last week was dubbed as the artificial intelligence security show, and rightfully so, as AI was prevalent across keynotes, sessions and the show floor. That’s all fine and dandy, but it’s important to understand the engine that drives AI is data. Last year, Amazon Web Services Inc. announced Amazon Security Lake, to provide […]

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Infoblox uncovers Muddling Meerkat, which can control China’s Great Firewall

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 14 May 2024 20:05:16 +0000

Before last week’s RSA Conference, Infoblox Inc. announced that its threat intel researchers uncovered “Muddling Meerkat,” which it characterizes as “a likely PRC state actor with the ability to control the Great Firewall of China.” The GFW censors and controls internet traffic entering and exiting China. The company said the threat actor used sophisticated techniques to […]

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At RSAC, Cisco launches bolsters in Security Cloud, built on Hypershield and Splunk

Zeus Kerravala — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:55:33 +0000

All security eyes are on San Francisco this week as the RSA Conference kicks off. One vendor with some early news is Cisco Systems Inc., which unveiled a salvo of new offerings in its Cisco Security Cloud. Designed to support and safeguard artificial intelligence, the features aim to help companies protect their applications, devices, users […]

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Ahead of RSAC, Menlo Security announces partnership with Google Cloud for better browser security

Zeus Kerravala — Fri, 03 May 2024 18:17:22 +0000

As the security world descends upon the Moscone Center next week for the RSA Security Conference, two companies that put out some news ahead of the show were Google Cloud and Menlo Security Inc. which announced a partnership to improve the security of enterprise browsers. Under the terms of the agreement, Menlo Security, which pioneered […]

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Splunk report finds generative AI both a problem and a solution for security teams

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:48:22 +0000

As organizations navigate increasingly complex technological environments, they face a dichotomy: Some are harnessing advanced cybersecurity tools and practices, while others are struggling under the weight of new challenges. Splunk Inc.’s new 2024 State of Security Report: The Race to Harness AI, released Tuesday, highlights significant differences in how cybersecurity is managed. It also delves into […]

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Five thoughts from Extreme Networks’ Connect user conference

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:58:04 +0000

Extreme Networks Inc. recently held its annual user conference, Connect, in Fort Worth, Texas, where everything is big. In keeping with that tradition, Extreme had its own big news from the show. Day 1 news involved Extreme being approved for standard power for the 6-gigahertz spectrum for Wi-Fi. This new band was added to Wi-Fi 6E […]

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Arista enhances its multi-domain segmentation to fight east-west threats

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:44:38 +0000

Arista Networks Inc. today announced an enhancement to Arista MSS — Multi-Domain Segmentation Service — to create a zero-trust enterprise network. “We tried to overcome one of the biggest challenges of micro-segmentation technologies that are always deployed in islands today,”Alessandro Barbieri, director of product management at the company, told me in a briefing. “There is […]

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New Amazon Bedrock offerings provide a new way to fast-track generative AI apps and experiences

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:00:29 +0000

Amazon Web Services Inc. Tuesday announced a slew of offerings on Amazon Bedrock, including a custom artificial intelligence model import capability, model evaluation, safeguards to remove personal and sensitive information, and additional model choices, with a goal to help customers speed up the rollout of generative AI. Before the news, I received a prebriefing on the announcement […]

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Veeam acquires Coveware to bolster its ransomware incident response capabilities

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:00:38 +0000

Veeam Inc. today announced that it has acquired incident response firm Coveware Inc. for an undisclosed price. The new offering that results from the acquisition — Coveware by Veeam — will operate independently initially, but the company will integrate elements over time. Dave Russell, vice president of strategy at Veeam, gave me a preview of the […]

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Amazon Bedrock adds Anthropic’s Claude 3 family and Mistral Large

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:00:39 +0000

Amazon Web Services Inc. recently announced that Anthropic PBC, an artificial intelligence safety and research company, will make its Claude 3 family of models available on Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku are already available on Bedrock, and today Claude 3 Opus is generally available to AWS customers. AWS says this should help […]

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Zscaler goes east-west with the acquisition of Airgap Networks

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:47:31 +0000

With Zscaler Inc.‘s announced acquisition today of startup Airgap Networks Inc., a network access and segmentation tech provider, the cybersecurity provider is looking to address gaps in operational technology. No financial terms for the purchase were provided, but Airgap has raised a little over $13 million since it was founded in 2019, so the deal […]

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How L’Oreal is tapping generative AI to transform its marketing

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:39:05 +0000

Good companies are always looking to use the latest technology to transform themselves. For decades, L’Oreal Groupe has been a leader in beauty and is now looking to use AI to disrupt the industry. Boasting 37 global brands, the company addresses contemporary consumer needs using innovative marketing and cutting-edge technology. L’Oreal is embracing generative artificial […]

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AWS pledges to help organizations with digital sovereignty and resilience

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:13:15 +0000

Max Peterson, vice president of sovereign cloud at Amazon Web Services Inc., recently posted a blog about the resiliency and security of AWS’s global infrastructure and the company’s continued progress on its Digital Sovereignty Pledge. In the blog, Peterson outlined a comprehensive approach to secure data across global networks and ensure that critical applications remain unaffected by […]

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