Zeus Kerravala

Zeus Kerravala is a principal analyst at ZK Research, a division of Kerravala Consulting.

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The robots are coming! And Nvidia is going to power them with a revamped Jetson and lower price

‘Tis the season to ponder what to get that someone in your life who has everything. If you haven’t finished your Christmas shopping and have $249 to spend for a piece of technology about four inches wide, three-and-a-half inches high, and 1.3 inches thick, then Nvidia Corp. has the perfect gift. The tech giant introduced ...
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Meeting at center ice: The NHL and AWS redefine hockey broadcasting and fan engagement

The National Hockey League and Amazon Web Services Inc. are working together to change how hockey is experienced, leveraging cloud technologies and data-driven insights to enhance production workflows and fan engagement. At AWS re:Invent last week, representatives from both organizations joined a panel titled “NHL Unlocked: Live cloud production, sports data, and alternate feeds.” The panelists were Julie ...
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Extreme Networks rolls out its platform to simplify network operations

Networking and complexity go hand in hand, like chocolate and peanut butter. Though this has been the norm, it’s playing havoc with business operations. A recent ZK Research/Cube Research study found that 93% of organizations state the network is more critical to business operations than two years ago. In the same period, 80% said the ...
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Nine notable innovations from AWS CEO Matt Garman’s re:Invent keynote

Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Matt Garman delivered a three-hour keynote at the company’s annual re:Invent conference to an audience of 60,000 attendees in Las Vegas and another 400,000 watching online, ad they heard a lot of news from the new leader, who became CEO earlier this year after joining the company in 2006. The ...
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$2B secondary funding gives Veeam $15B valuation on path to IPO

Veeam Software Group GmbH, the market share leader in data resilience, today announced a new $2 billion investment from several top investment firms. The Seattle-based company said its valuation now stands at $15 billion, which is about the same as the valuation of Commvault Systems Inc. and Rubrik Inc. combined. Investors in what the company ...
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Arista redefines the network stack

When it comes to building campus networks, there is a religion around stacking versus chassis-based systems. In my network engineer days, I lived on both sides of that holy war. Initially, it was chassis or nothing, but I worked for a big financial firm with large budgets and didn’t give much credence to other options. ...
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New research report shows rapid, wide adoption of generative AI

The hype around artificial intelligence is at an all-time high. Sometimes, in tech, the reality never matches the hype. With AI, though, I do believe it’s warranted. I view the adoption of AI as similar to the adoption of internet technologies. We talked about the internet, hyped it, created economic reports, and then we stopped ...
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Palo Alto Networks’ Nir Zuk on what’s coming in cybersecurity in 2025

One of the highlights at Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s the most recent version of its Ignite on Tour event series, this one at its Santa Clara headquarters, was founder and Chief Technology Officer Nir Zuk’s presentation of the cybersecurity company’s 2025 predictions for the security industry. In the security world, Zuk has a broad following and is ...
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Nvidia’s SC24 special address hints at a new era in computing and AI

As the world of high-performance computing is getting together this week in Atlanta for SC24, Nvidia Corp. held a “special address” to showcase the company’s vision for computing and artificial intelligence, with founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang leading the charge. Joined by Ian Buck, Nvidia’s vice president and general manager for hyperscale and high-performance computing, ...
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Mitel brings AI to its multicloud contact experience offering

Communications provider Mitel Networks Corp. today is rolling out a new artificial intelligence-powered customer experience platform to help businesses optimize customer interactions by integrating with existing communication tools. Launching in the spring of 2025, Mitel CX is part of the company’s broader effort to modernize its contact center offerings. While most of the industry has ...