Zeus Kerravala

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

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Cisco gives customer experience a big dose of AI

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 ...
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How AWS is partnering with F1 to reshape auto racing

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. ...
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Arista Networks debuts next-gen platforms for AI data centers

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. ...
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Nvidia GTC DC: The rise of AI factories and a push for US leadership

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 ...
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Speed, Frankenstein, voice and other takeaways from NiCE CEO Scott Russell’s keynote at Analyst Summit

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, ...
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Veeam to acquire Securiti for $1.7B+ to accelerate safe AI at scale

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 ...
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IBM TechXchange 2025 was all about navigating the AI revolution

At IBM Corp.‘s TechXchange 2025 event last week in Orlando, Florida, artificial intelligence was the primary theme, as it is at every event today. But the messaging and announcements from this conference were about getting customers over the hump and moving AI from vision to adoption. The pace of technological change is faster than I’ve ever seen ...
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Farmer Lifeline Technologies uses AI to fight extreme poverty

I attend more than my fair share of events every year, but my favorite is the Global Citizen Festival in New York City. For those not familiar with it, it’s an international education and advocacy organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and its system causes. The goal of Global Citizen is to end extreme poverty ...
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The $500M blueprint: How QumulusAI and USD.AI are forging a new financial model for the AI neocloud

It seems every day there’s a new announcement regarding an economic event with artificial intelligence. Recently, Nvidia Corp. made an investment in OpenAI and then OpenAI turned around and took a stake in Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Then there was the $6.3 billion deal between CoreWeave Inc. and Nvidia. Why so much activity? The reason ...
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Cisco’s 51.2T Silicon One P200 chip brings scale-across to distributed AI

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced its 8223 routing system, powered by its new Silicon One P200 chip — a new network system designed to unlock artificial intelligence’s potential through massive scale. Earlier this year, Nvidia Corp. introduced the concept of “scale-across” architectures as AI is now hitting the limits of a single data center. A “unit of ...