Zeus Kerravala

This week at its Cloud Next user event in San Francisco, Google announced Anthos, which enables customers to evolve to a hybrid, multi-cloud environment. The product is an extension of its existing Cloud Services Platform (CSP) released in beta earlier this year. That version of CSP enabled customers to run workloads on Google Cloud using […]

Aruba, a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise company, recently held its user conference, Atmosphere, in Las Vegas. One of the things I like about the show is that it’s one of the few events that’s hinged around mobility. Aruba’s portfolio is a combination of secure wired and wireless infrastructure, but the goal of the company is to help […]

The software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) market is red hot as most businesses have not rearchitected the WAN in over 30 years. The current hub and spoke model based on MPLS was put in place to handle client/server traffic where the majority of company applications and data lived in the company data center. Today, cloud […]

This week at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), flash storage vendor Pure Storage announced an extension to its engineered systems for artificial intelligence. For those not familiar with the term, an engineered system is a turnkey solution that brings together all the technology components required to run a certain workload. The first example of […]

The industry’s largest enterprise communications show, Enterprise Connect, was held earlier this month in Orlando, Fla. For decades, the show has followed the trend of voice and video shifting away from its own proprietary network to IP networks and, most recently, to the cloud. The challenge for network managers is how to ensure the quality […]

This week, graphics processing unit market leader Nvidia is holding its annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, Calif. What was once a niche show dedicated to video-game graphics has exploded into a massive artificial intelligence conference as the GPU has become a key technology in that field. Nvidia has had a great run over […]

Application delivery controller market leader F5 Networks last week announced its intention to acquire privately held NGINX for $670 million in an all-cash transition. eWEEK Senior Editor Sean Michael Kerner covered the news, so I won’t rehash what he discussed, but I will focus on how this can help companies bridge the widening gap between […]

It’s nearing the end of winter, which means the sun is shining and birds are singing. It also means it’s conference season, with Mobile World Congress and RSA having just taken place. This week’s event is the Open Compute Project’s (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose.  This week at OCP, Arista Networks announced its new […]

Being Canadian, I like to reference all things Canada. One of my favorite business quotes comes from the great Hall of Fame hockey player Wayne Gretzky, who stated it was important to “skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.” While it was made in the context of sports, it […]

Digital transformation has shaken up every industry as smaller, more agile companies have come out of nowhere to disrupt the status quo. For example, Airbnb’s valuation is now higher than Hilton and Hyatt combined, and it owns no properties. Traditional businesses need to be agile to compete in the digital era, and that’s caused them […]

San Jose, Calif.-based storage software maker Cohesity has announced its new MarketPlace that makes shopping for apps on its DataPlatform as simple as buying an app for an iPhone. If you’re not familiar with Cohesity, the company calls itself a “hyper-converged secondary storage” vendor, which is a fancy way of saying it uses hyper-converged infrastructure […]

Software-defined WANs have been available for the better part of five years with the on-premises vendors ruling the roost. This makes sense, because early adopters tend to have highly sophisticated IT organizations and embrace the do-it-yourself model. Now that the market is maturing, less-technical organization are finished dotting their I’s and crossing their T’s and […]