Zeus Kerravala

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

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Five thoughts – plus a comment on the importance of leadership – from Cisco’s AI Summit

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 ...
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The network is the new production truck: Why NBC Sports is betting big on AI networking for the 2026 Winter Games

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 ...
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AI is coming to an enterprise near you and Zscaler aims to secure it

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 ...
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Nvidia report finds AI set to take off in retail, but openness is required for scale

As one would expect, artificial intelligence was a big theme at last week’s National Retail Federation’s annual event in New York City, as it was last year, but there was one subtle difference. The 2025 edition was focused more on AI education, whereas I felt this year’s NRF focused more on use cases. In fact, ...
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HPE Networking rolls out a bevy of retail products at NRF 2026

As CES wound down, industry watchers are now turning their attention to the National Retail Federation show across the country in New York. Retail, once is slow moving industry, is now ripe with change and the in-store environments have become operationally more complex. It’s now common to find more digital services and connected systems as the ...
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Five thoughts from Nvidia’s keynote at CES

One of the highlights of the CES event last week was the Nvidia Corp. keynote delivered by Chief Executive Jensen Huang. Though there are many focal points to an event such as CES, the one pervasive theme is artificial intelligence, and no company has become more synonymous with AI than Nvidia. That’s why thousands of people queued ...
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Amazon’s Just Walk Out just walks out new use cases

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 ...
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Analysis: Nvidia Nemotron-3 open models lead to more efficient agentic AI

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 ...
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Zoom zooms ahead to focus on end users

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 ...
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Arista scooters its way to scalable wireless with VESPA and introduces new AI capabilities

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 ...