Zeus Kerravala

Networking vendor Extreme Networks is holding its user event, Connect, this week in Berlin, Germany. At the conference, the company announced ExtremeCloud Edge, which brings Extreme’s network management capabilities to the network edge. This includes network operations as well as analytics, AI-infused functions, and networking applications. Like most network vendors today, Extreme offers cloud management via […]

I recently chatted with Garth Landers, Theta Lake’s director of global product marketing, about the Mural partnership and how the company is tackling issues surrounding unified communications, compliance, and security.

Cybersecurity and endpoint management company Tanium is broadening its portfolio with the launch of its digital employee experience (DEX) solution. The solution is part of Tanium’s converged endpoint management (XEM) platform, which allows IT teams to proactively measure and manage employees’ digital experiences with self-help capabilities, automated remediation, sentiment surveys, and notification features. Contrary to […]

Cohesity and Microsoft recently announced they have expanded their partnership to enhance data security, threat detection, and protection against cyberattacks using artificial intelligence. The goal is to help organizations optimize cloud usage while mitigating risks in an increasingly hybrid and multicloud world. Cohesity already offers backup services for Microsoft 365 on Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]

Expense and asset management provider Tangoe recently released a report that takes a close look at the challenges associated with managing multi-cloud environments. The company partnered with CIO Magazine and Foundry and surveyed 200 IT decision makers at large enterprises. In sum, the report found that cloud is highly utilized – but a variety of issues […]

It’s been well documented that customer experience is now the top brand differentiator. Brands need to provide their audience, whether it’s a retail customer, student, patient or in the case of the 3-time Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning, a sports fan, with a differentiated experience to create repeat customers. The sports world can be […]

The communications industry’s largest show, Enterprise Connect, is being held this week in Orlando, Fl. At the event, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its new Amazon Chime SDK call analytics, which are a set of capabilities that simplify and lower the cost of recording and generating insights into real time audio calls. The service works […]

The 2023 Edition of Enterprise Connect kicks off this week in Orlando, Fl. This is the industry’s largest telecom and networking event and while it’s unlikely we will see Mickey there, there will be a veritable cornucopia of news from vendors. One of the more interesting announcements was from Bandwidth, whose new Maestro offering will […]

At the recent GPU Developer Conference (GTC), NVIDIA announced a range of new hardware, software and cloud solutions and partnerships. One of the most consequential and exciting areas of news is a series of announcements related to Omniverse. On a related topic: What is Generative AI? Omniverse Brings Industrial Metaverse to Life NVIDIA’s Omniverse is a […]

This week, GPU market leader NVIDIA is holding its virtual GPU Technology Conference (GTC). Over the years, GTC has evolved from a graphics and gaming show to an industry event dedicated to all things artificial intelligence (AI). One of the major use cases for AI and NVIDIA technology is in the area of robotics. This […]

I discussed the upcoming release of Wi-Fi 7 in my latest ZKast with David Coleman, Director of Wireless at the Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks, which already has Wi-Fi 7 products in the works. Coleman explained what’s new in the standard and how it compares to Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, 5G, and private […]

Mobile World Congress (MWC) kicks off this week in Barcelona. The theme of the event is telco transformation – as it has been for some time. Clearly, the evolution of telcos is long overdue. Most communication and network service providers have networks that rely too heavily on people, spend too much on infrastructure and deliver […]