Zeus Kerravala

About

Zeus Kerravala is an eWEEK regular contributor and the founder and principal analyst with ZK Research. He spent 10 years at Yankee Group and prior to that held a number of corporate IT positions. Kerravala is considered one of the top 10 IT analysts in the world by Apollo Research, which evaluated 3,960 technology analysts and their individual press coverage metrics.

Uniphore Rolls Out Conversational AI for Sales

Start-up Uniphore has announced its Q for Sales product, which brings the benefits of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to enterprise sales organizations. Conversational AI is a hot topic but has primarily been applied to contact centers, where the technology has been focused on dissecting chatbot interactions between businesses and consumers. This has been the “low […]

Deployment Options Are Coming For Private 5G

I spoke with Todd Krautkremer, Chief Marketing Officer at Cradlepoint, about the evolving landscape of private 5G networks, including the various deployment options available and how they can benefit enterprises in terms of security, flexibility, and performance.

The Future of Observability is Beyond MELT

Observability is a hot tech topic yet has also become one of the industry’s most overused buzzwords. The term means understanding the behavior, performance, and other aspects of cloud infrastructure and cloud apps based on the data they generate, such as metrics, events, logs and traces (MELT). Observability relies on telemetry that comes from endpoints […]

Bring Your Own Carrier Solves Cloud Contact Center Migration Pain

In my latest ZKast video, I interviewed Paul Dryden, vice president of business and development at Bandwidth, to discuss the partnership with Genesys and why enterprise contact centers are shifting to the cloud.

Tangoe Report: Pandemic Caused Major Shifts in IT Spending

Throughout 2021, the pandemic influenced corporate buying behavior as hybrid work models became more permanent, replacing ad-hoc strategies initially used to support remote workers. Organizations changed their buying behavior in favor of more flexible, efficient, and cost-effective IT strategies, according to Tangoe’s newly released 2021 Market Trends Report. Tangoe gathered the data from the massive […]

NTT Addresses the Why and When of Private 5G

NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) is one of the world’s leading telecom providers. The conglomerate is deeply rooted in the mobile space, providing cellular services across Japan through its subsidiary NTT Docomo. More recently, NTT has shifted its focus to building innovative solutions that utilize next-gen mobile technologies to help organizations deploy networks specifically […]

Zscaler Brings a New Approach to Experience Management

I recently chatted with Dhawal Sharma, vice president of product management at Zscaler, to better understand how ZDX works, the new enhancements, and how it fits into the overall Zscaler platform.

Cisco, Lockheed Martin and Amazon Partner to Bring Collaboration to Space

Cisco is bringing its Webex technology to the final frontier: space. Webex will be a part of the Callisto payload on the Orion spacecraft, which launches later this year on a mission called Artemis I. Formerly known as Exploration Mission-1, this launch will be the first in a series of several complex missions focused on […]

The End of BlackBerry Classic: IT Pros, Always Evaluate Your Vendors

Over the holiday break, the onetime king of mobile, BlackBerry, issued a post reminding users that as of January 4, 2022, Classic BlackBerry devices will no longer function – including the ability to make 911 calls. The decommissioning of these devices is another milestone in the long, slow demise of a company that ruled the […]

How Distributed Cloud Computing Drives IT Automation

Recently, I was the keynote speaker at the AppViewX digital event, “Simplify Application Delivery 2021.”  While there were many sub-themes to the event, the one I focused on is automation, as I believe this is the single most important capability for application delivery moving forward. The application delivery landscape is evolving rapidly and shifting from […]