I’ve seen many digital transformation efforts, but one recent example was unique: At the recent Cisco Systems Inc. Partner Summit event, I sat down with Grady Nichols, senior director of information technology operations at Mercy Ships, and Rob Kim, chief technology officer at Presidio Inc., and discussed how the two organizations are partnering with each other and ...

As Veeam Software Group GmbH recently held its annual industry analyst event in San Antonio, it had a new direction to talk about following its announcement of its intent to acquire Securiti Inc. for a little over $1.7 billion. Veeam is best known as a data protection company, but that changed when with the intent to acquire ...

The cloud and artificial intelligence have the power to change the world of sports, and few technology providers have done a better job of executing on this than Amazon Web Services Inc. The company has partnerships with the NFL, Bundesliga, PGA TOUR, F1 and many more. With each organization, AWS works closely with them to ...

There is a lot of hype around 5G these days, and for good reason, as it promises faster data speeds, lower latency and wider coverage to support a wide range of wireless applications such as remote medicine and autonomous warehouses. With these advancements, I’ve noticed the chatter around 5G as a Wi-Fi replacement, begging the ...

There is a growing duality of opposing forces that needs to be dealt with if customers are to have success with artificial intelligence. My research shows that more than 90% of organizations believe the network to be more important to business operations than it was two years ago. At the same time, almost the same ...

Even in auto racing, it’s all about the data today. Amazon Web Services Inc. is a global partner of Formula One and has been the official cloud and machine learning provider for the league since 2018. The dynamic, longstanding partnership comes down to three core pillars: transforming data into racing intelligence, fan experience enhancement and technical transformation. ...

Scaling artificial intelligence is not just a compute problem but increasingly a network issue, a reality that Arista Networks addressed Wednesday by unveiling its latest switch family targeted toward AI data centers. It’s new generation, the R4 Series platform is based on the Broadcom Jericho3 Qumran3D silicon and is designed for AI, cloud data centers and routed backbone deployments. ...

As artificial intelligence continues to steamroll its way into every part of our lives, Nvidia Corp.’s GPU Technology Conference events have grown in importance, and this week’s fall installment in Washington, D.C. provided the customary showcase of how and what is possible. Nvidia has been at the heart of the AI revolution since it began as the ...

Contact-center-as-a-service leader NiCE Ltd. is holding its analyst event in Vienna, Austria, this week, and it’s the first one with Scott Russell as captain of the Starship NiCE. The chief executive isn’t the only new leader, as Michelle Cooper is now running marketing and Jeff Comstock takes over as the president of products and technology. Russell, ...

Veeam Software Group GmbH today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Securiti Inc. for $1.725 billion, by far the largest purchase made by the company to date. Though Veeam has made many acquisitions under the tenure of Chief Executive Anand Eswaran (pictured), this is the first in the security market. As a data protection company, Veeam can ...