Zeus Kerravala

Coming up on September 13th and 14th, Zoom will be holding its fifth annual Zoomtopia user event. Like last year, the 2021 Zoomtopia will be an all-digital event, which provides attendees access to a massive amount of content during and after the event. Since its inception, Zoomtopia has been a popular event for Zoom’s customers, […]

Organizations all over the world are entering a period of extended — and potentially permanent — hybrid work. As more people do their jobs outside the traditional office, IT administrators are becoming overwhelmed with managing hybrid workers, devices, and all the complexities that come with it. The changing workplace underscores the importance of ensuring that […]

This week Australia-based Appen announced a disappointing quarter, as many of its customers grapple with global privacy changes, causing a redirection of spend away from advertising to projects that include geolocation information. In an effort to shift the business toward these new areas of spend on its earnings call, Appen announced it had signed a […]

This morning Comcast Business announced its intent to acquire managed service provider Masergy. This move brings enterprise class network capabilities to Comcast Business as they attempt to move up market and take on Verizon and AT&T in a bigger way. Comcast currently has its own SD-WAN offering, leveraging its partnership with Versa Networks, but it’s […]

Networks of the past looked very different from networks today. Legacy networks were built for applications and data that resided in corporate data centers, whereas modern networks are built for cloud apps and a distributed workforce. Especially post-COVID-19, it’s unrealistic to run a cloud-first business on a network that was designed for a different era. […]

This week Cisco posted solid Q4 Fiscal 2021 results. The company ended its fiscal 2021 with strong performance, highlighted by revenues of $13.1B, up 8.8%, which was also $87M ahead of Street expectations. About 2.1% of the growth came from acquisitions, most notably IMImobile and Acacia, resulting in 6.7% of organic growth, which is certainly […]

The interest in software defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) and secure access service edge (SASE) was high pre-pandemic, but since then, interest has skyrocketed. In a recent survey by ZK Research, we found that 62% of businesses have accelerated SD-WAN plans in the past year. Similarly, SASE has seen a sharp rise in interest, although […]

AI brings a number of new capabilities to cyber security. To understand the impact it can have, I recently interviewed Sam Jones, VP of Product Management and security at start-up Stellar Cyber.

DigiCert, a tech company specializing in digital security like secure socket layer (SSL) and public key infrastructure (PKI) encryption, just launched a new cloud-based tool for digital signatures called DigiCert Document Signing Manager. The solution uses proven electronic signatures to verify the signer’s identity and ensure that signed documents have not been modified. It comes […]

The world of technology has seen more disruption in the past 18 months than in any other period in history. Businesses have accelerated digital transformation plans and introduced several new technologies, such as cloud, mobility, IoT and edge computing. The commonality for these is that they are all network-centric technologies, meaning the network plays a […]

This week Bandwidth plans to roll out a version of its direct routing and E911 product, Duet, specifically for RingCentral. The product is currently available for Microsoft Teams and has seen strong adoption as Teams customers look to add calling. Now Bandwidth is providing this to RingCentral customers as an option to Ring’s current calling […]

In the sports-event industry, the COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented challenges. Despite the setbacks, COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation initiatives, resulting in a better experience for fans as they returned to in-person sporting events. For professional baseball team Boston Red Sox, this meant moving to 100 percent digital ticketing at America’s most beloved ballpark, known better as […]