I’m a big fan of any technology that makes our lives easier. One example of this is Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, which I consider to be the easiest check out experience available today. Customers tap their credit card on a reader, walk in a store, pick up whatever they want and then, as the ...

Artificial intelligence leader Nvidia Corp. Monday announced the Nemotron-3 family of models, data and tools, and the release is further evidence of the company’s commitment to the open ecosystem, focusing on delivering highly efficient, accurate and transparent models essential for building sophisticated agentic AI applications. Nvidia executives, including Chief Executive Jensen Huang, have talked about the importance ...

Zoom Communications Inc. is a fascinating company in that it’s one of the few corporate technology brands that resonates with end users as well as information technology pros. I’m aware of many instances where the IT organization was considering an alternate communications product but the demand from the user community was so strong that Zoom ...

High-performance network provider Arista Networks Inc. today announced the next wave of innovations for its campus network solutions. The new products include expansion of its Virtual ES with Path Aliasing, or VESPA, offering, which will make it easier for businesses to deploy large-scale mobility domains. The Santa Clara networking company also announced it is expanding its ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Matt Garman’s keynote at AWS re:Invent was filled with product updates with vision sprinkled in to help customers understand why the innovation matters. To no surprise, this year’s keynote had a strong focus on the explosion of artificial intelligence and agents. The presentation outlined AWS’ strategy for empowering customers ...

Given Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.‘s Juniper acquisition has now had a bit of time to percolate, I was expecting to see at HPE’s European version of its user event Discover this week in Barcelona how it’s using the combined assets to reshape itself for the artificial intelligence era. The event is the first real glimpse into how the ...

The partnership between Atlassian Corp., the enterprise software giant best known for products such as Jira and Confluence, and Formula 1 team Williams Racing is far more than a simple sponsorship with a logo on a helmet. One of the aspects I like most about Formula 1 is that the value of all technical sponsorships counts ...

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 ...