Zeus Kerravala

In my latest ZKast interview, I talked to Craig Theriac, VP of Product Management at Scale Computing, about how the company is helping businesses manage their edge infrastructure with its new cloud-hosted Fleet Manager tool.

Ransomware continues to plague organizations all over the world. The most common entry points of ransomware into enterprise IT environments are phishing emails, malicious links, and dubious websites, according to Veeam Software’s 2022 Ransomware Trends Report. The provider of backup, recovery, and data management solutions found that 44 percent of organizations have experienced such cyberattacks […]

This week, network vendor and technology leader Cisco announced its Q3 FY22 earnings results. The company posted revenues of $12.8B, missing consensus estimates by over $500M. Revenue was essentially flat (+0.3%) year over year. Cisco reported non-GAAP EPS of $0.87, topping the street by a penny. Total gross margin was 65.7%, which was at the […]

Most enterprises today have some type of multi-cloud strategy, yet still face challenges when connecting to public and private clouds. The Internet provides “best effort” connectivity but has inconsistencies in network quality that can significantly impact application performance. Connecting to the Internet via legacy multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) doesn’t provide cloud-like agility where enterprises can […]

I recently did a ZKast with Moinul Khan, VP of Product Management for Zscaler, discussing the importance of data protection in the cloud.

Every organization with cloud-based collaboration tools should be thinking about security, privacy, and compliance. Post-pandemic, digital transformation priorities have shifted to support a hybrid work environment, where there is less control over data and a rise in shadow IT. Last year, ZK Research surveyed business leaders to understand how their spending priorities have changed during […]

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 […]