Zeus Kerravala

It’s a well known fact that there’s an overabundance of wireless devices in the U.S. hospital system. According to U.S. hospital data, there are on average 10 to 15 connected medical devices per patient and more than 350,000 Internet-connected devices in large hospitals. Half of the connected devices found in hospitals are vulnerable to cyberattacks. […]

The terms hybrid work and remote work are used interchangeably, but they’re fundamentally very different. Remote works refers to all employees working from home, as was the case at the start of COVID-19. Hybrid work can describe a scenario where no one is in the office, everyone is in the office, and every possible combination […]

Since the birth of computing, networks have evolved alongside compute architecture. From mainframes to client servers to branch office computing, networks have had to keep pace by undergoing their own evolutionary processes. Today, compute has become highly distributed and that’s driving yet another major shift: to remain effective, networks now must be distributed. Distributed Clouds […]

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, recently held its annual user event, Atmosphere, which returned to an in-person format after being virtual for two years. The event is Aruba’s largest and is the place for customers to learn about the latest and greatest that’s coming. The theme of “ATM22” was “Making Connections, Anywhere,” which I […]

Today’s organizations typically have some combination of on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and multi-cloud environments. The one common denominator across all of these environments is the network. Due to the importance of networks, it’s becoming increasingly important to use observability technology to understand the performance and other aspects of networks, based on the data they […]

I recently sat down with Avaya’s Chief Marketing Officer, Simon Harrison, at the Enterprise Connect conference, which took place in Orlando, Florida, March 21-24. Harrison shared Avaya’s vision for building composable solutions and explained why composability is the future of communication.

Apple recently introduced the general availability of a service called Apple Business Essentials, which helps small businesses throughout the entire device management life cycle, including device setup, storage, upgrades, and repairs. Business Essentials is now available as a subscription in the U.S., following a beta trial of the service that launched in November 2021. Also […]

In my latest ZKast, Nirmal Jandhyala, Director of Product Management at Cisco, explained what SASE is, and why enterprises are adopting the technology. Highlights of the ZKast interview, done in conjunction with eWEEK eSPEAKS, are below.

In a surprise move, Hewlett Packard announced a definitive agreement to acquire Poly, a vendor of workplace collaboration solutions for $3.3B in cash, which is inclusive of about $1.6B in debt. This marks the end of an era for Poly, formerly Polycom, which was one of the pioneers of videoconferencing. The current Poly company is […]

After two years, the Enterprise Connect show returned to an in-person format in Orlando, Florida. Enterprise Connect is typically a show that communications vendors use to announce new products and features – and Amazon Web Services (AWS) did just that. Prior to the pandemic, AWS was a relative newcomer to the contact center industry. Indeed, […]

Communications and the cloud have seemingly become synonymous. The pandemic-induced trend toward working from home prompted companies to adopt “as a service,” or UCaaS, solutions for collaboration. This created a massive wave of deployments, and some industry observers began to believe that the on-premises opportunity, which includes private cloud, will no longer be viable. Also […]

I recently spoke with Michael Bushong, Vice President of Cloud-Ready Data Center at Juniper Networks about the changing role of the data center and what it means to the cloud.