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.

Palo Alto Firewall Boosts Performance with Single Pass Architecture

The new Palo Alto Networks PA-400 ML Powered Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) product family comes in a compact form factor and is designed for branch offices, small businesses, or retail locations. The product aims for the next generation firewall market, and it features natively integrated security features, such as threat prevention, advanced URL filtering, DNS […]

ITRenew, a High-End Webscale Refurbisher, Integrates with Pluribus Networks

The definition of cloud is changing as hybrid multicloud and distributed cloud architectures emerging, and with businesses seeking to augment their public cloud deployments with a private cloud stack. Deploying a private cloud can be quite a significant undertaking as it requires procuring and integrating network, storage, compute, orchestration software and other technology. One vendor […]

Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration Effort Aims to Boost Digital Transformation

Solving the world biggest challenges and making the world a better place for everyone is something most large businesses talk about, but action is sometimes lacking. One company that has stepped up, particularly in the past five years, is Cisco, whose stated purpose is to “Power an Inclusive Future.” While the company has donated hundreds […]

AWS Re:Invent Wrap-Up: Social Issues, Networking Focus, Partner Revenue

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent conference was held last week in Las Vegas. This year, the 10th Re:Invent, returned to an in-person format after a year as a digital event due to the pandemic. It was also the first Re:Invent under new CEO Adam Selipsky, who takes the helm from Andy Jassy, who had […]

AIOps Provides a Path To Fully Autonomous Networks

I recently spoke with Ajay Pandya, Director of Product Management at Masergy, about the key findings of the 2021 State of AIOps Study and how AIOps trends are transforming IT operations.

American Connection Project Aims To Fill The Gaps In Rural Broadband

I recently spoke with Teddy Bekele, chief technology officer at Land O’Lakes, about connectivity challenges in rural communities and how ACP is addressing these networking challenges.

Skuid Aims for Streamlined Workflows Across Applications

Skuid, which stands for scalable kit for user interface design, is a no-code, drag-and-drop cloud platform that combines data from multiple sources within an organization to create customized apps, pages, and reports. With Skuid, organizations can bring data from all their systems into one system of engagement, explained Ken McElrath, founder and chief strategy officer […]

Is your Application Delivery Strategy Aligned with the Next Wave of Cloud?

Businesses have been adopting cloud computing for the better part of two decades. During that time, the implementation of cloud has gone through a change and is on the precipice of another major shift. The first phase of cloud was a hosted service, where companies performed a “lift and shift” of legacy apps into a […]

Palo Alto Networks’s Okyo Garde: Enabling Hybrid Work From Home

The concept of hybrid work existed before COVID-19. What nobody expected is for hybrid work – digital transformation – to become a permanent setup for organizations. Some will have many people in the office, some just a few, and every combination in between. As home offices turn into forever offices, organizations will have to rethink […]

Cisco Partner Summit: New Enterprise Agreements, Partner Lifecycle Services

It’s fall, which in the tech world means the conference season is well underway. One of the major events in networking is Cisco’s Partner Summit, as the company typically announces changes to the way it handles its reseller community as well as a handful of new products and this year was no different. While many […]