Zeus Kerravala

This week Cisco held its annual user conference, Cisco Live, in an all-digital format. Historically, Cisco Live events were regional as the company hosted a Cisco Live U.S., EMEA, Asia-Pacific and a few others. Because the event was in digital format, Cisco is able to host its first-ever truly global Cisco Live event and stream […]

It’s been well-documented that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation plans.  Early in the pandemic, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella commented that his company has seen two years of digital projects in the first two months of the pandemic. Every business leader I interview now has moved up his/her digital timeline because we now live […]

COVID-19 fast-tracked digital transformation around the globe when consumers and businesses moved predominantly online. Today’s consumers have their pick of digital products and services, which means they’re not as loyal to specific brands. In order to build loyalty, brands are tasked with delivering digital experiences that are both seamless and innovative. The insight comes from […]

Network disaggregation has been a hot topic for the better part of two decades. Despite the promise of lower costs, the concept has never really taken off, because the first wave of products was plagued with performance problems. Recently, an Israeli startup, DriveNets, achieved unicorn status when it closed its Series B funding round of […]

The rise of the digital business has put an emphasis on a number of new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), SASE (secure access service edge), cybersecurity and the cloud. One of the challenges for enterprise IT is that deploying, tuning and operating new technologies–such as those listed above–isn’t always simple. It’s a rare vendor who […]

This week GPU market leader and AI thought leader NVIDIA revealed its NVIDIA AI Enterprise, a comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade AI tools and frameworks. The software brings together everything a business would need to deploy an AI system and is optimized, tuned and certified by NVIDIA, exclusively with VMware vSphere 7 update 2, also announced […]

This past week saw some key news items from some of the tech industry’s biggest vendors. In this week’s ZKast video, done in conjunction with eWEEK, I discuss why NVIDIA’s GTC event has become so important, my thoughts from Microsoft Ignite, why Cisco closing its acquisition is so important and what HPE’s quarterly results signify.  […]

A few weeks back, I authored this post summarizing a ZKast video on how the pandemic has accelerated the convergence of networking and security. These two historically separate domains have been on a collision course for decades as businesses become more network-centric. The pandemic chased people out of the office, forced businesses to shift to […]

In March 2019, Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring Mist Systems, one of the pioneers in cloud-managed WiFi. While there were other cloud WiFi vendors in the mix, what made Mist stand out was that its solution is powered by artificial intelligence (AI), emphasizing the importance of AI in networking. At the time of the […]

Prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation had been a hot topic with both business and IT leaders. In fact, in 2019, ZK Research found that 93% of organizations had at least one digital initiative under way. During this past year, the number of digital initiatives has accelerated because organizations have had […]

Earlier this month, Cisco Systems announced its Q2FY21 financial results, and the numbers were strong but not spectacular. While there are lots of publicly-traded companies in the markets Cisco populates (networking, security, collaboration, service providers), the company is viewed by many as a bellwether for tech spending because its portfolio is so broad. In fact, […]

Customer experience (CX) became the top brand differentiator in 2018, outpacing price, product quality and everything else. Businesses that offer a superior and differentiated CX have the opportunity to become and sustain market leadership. Those that do not prioritize customer service will struggle to compete effectively in this “experience” economy. One interesting data point that […]