Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced new networking, compute hardware, cloud operations software and financing updates for service providers at this past week’s MWC26 in Barcelona. The updates center on meeting the new demands being created by artificial intelligence reshaping every aspect of network design — from centralized data centers to distributed edge environments. AI adoption is driving ...

We are squarely in the artificial intelligence event season with MWC just wrapping up and Nvidia GTC and RSAC on deck. The talk of every show this year has been about moving AI from vision to reality. However, it’s often the case that the transition from AI experimentation to production-grade, value-generating systems hits a wall because ...

Over the past 18 months, the enterprise technology narrative has been dominated by a singular, persistent theme: artificial intelligence, more specifically agentic AI. From CES to NRF to the World Economic Forum, every vendor, service provider and analyst firm has been preaching the gospel of AI. Yet if we pull back the curtain on the ...

One topic that comes up every year at MWC, the telecommunications industry’s largest and de facto standard event, is modernizing telco networks to enable them to create new, revenue-generating services. However, again at this year’s conference in Barcelona, revenue growth for service providers remains elusive, despite the industry having spent billions on building out its 5G infrastructure ...

Over the past year there have been plenty of media reports discussing artificial intelligence failures and highlighting the negative aspects of it. I’m of the belief that AI will eventually be infused into every aspect of our lives and change the way we work, live and learn. This is similar to the impact the internet ...

Cisco Systems Inc. has long been regarded as the market leader in networking, but over the past few years, the company has strived to position itself as “critical infrastructure for the artificial intelligence era.” It now seems to be making headway with that as the stock hits an all-time high. This week at Cisco Live ...

In the world of professional sports, “data-driven” is often a term tossed around to describe basic box scores. But for the National Football League, the last 10 years have represented a fundamental shift in how the game is measured, analyzed and even played. This week, as the league reflects on a decade of its Next ...

Cisco Systems Inc. held its second annual AI Summit this week, with a star-studded lineup of artificial intelligence celebrities. Unlike most vendor events, the Cisco AI Summit was designed to be a “meeting of the minds,” bringing together the “builders of the AI economy” to help the industry move past the hype and address the practical ...

For decades, the pinnacle of sports broadcasting was defined by how many satellite trucks one could park outside a stadium. But as we head toward the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics starting this week, that era is officially in the rearview mirror. NBCUniversal Media LLC has chosen Cisco Systems Inc. to deliver the AI networking technology ...

My year started off with a cornucopia of events – CES, the National Retail Federation show and the World Economic Forum in Davos — and though they’re three completely different events, there was one thread that cut across all of them: artificial intelligence. Like the internet did 30 years ago, AI will change the way ...