Zeus Kerravala

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

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Nvidia: Let’s get physical with AI

Nvidia Corp. recently held an industry analyst briefing on the topic of physical artificial intelligence, and Chief Executive Jensen Huang has been consistent in his talk track in every keynote he has done this year that physical AI is the next wave of AI. In fact, he has often stated that eventually anything that moves ...
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Palo Alto Networks announces Cortex Cloud Application Security Posture Management

Palo Alto Networks Inc. kicked off the annual Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas this week with today’s announcement of its Cortex Cloud Application Security Posture Management solution. The ASPM offering is designed to fix security issues before cloud and AI applications have been deployed. The traditional method of securing apps is a highly ...
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Analysis: Palo Alto Networks bolsters Its AI play with acquisition of CyberArk

Palo Alto Networks Inc.‘s announcement Tuesday of its intent to acquire CyberArk for $25 billion implies a heavy price tag, as its shares fell on the news. But I believe it to be a good, long-term strategic move for Palo Alto and a logical extension of its platformization strategy. Valuation is interesting to look at but ...
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Five takeaways from Zoom’s Perspectives event

Recently Zoom Video Communications Inc. held its annual industry analyst event, Perspectives, at its headquarters in San Jose, and it revealed much about the ongoing evolution of the videoconferencing company. The company’s first act was built on video and given a massive steroid shot during the COVID era, which turned a company few had heard ...
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AWS expands its Generative AI Innovation Center with $100M investment

Since launching its Generative AI Innovation Center in 2023, Amazon Web Services Inc. has had one primary goal: help customers turn the potential of artificial intelligence into real business value. Now, the company has invested an additional $100 million in the center to enable customers to pioneer the new wave of autonomous agentic AI systems. Post-announcement, ...
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Indonesia to establish AI center of excellence with support from Nvidia, Cisco and Indosat

The artificial intelligence sprint is on, and not just within companies: This race is being held at a geographic level as well. The Middle East has been very active with AI, as has India and, of course, the U.S. This week the Indonesian government is taking a major step toward establishing itself as an AI ...
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Coveo report finds the employee interest in AI is high, but so is employee frustration

With all the hype around artificial intelligence, work should be easier and more efficient these days. But that’s far from the truth. Employees are still spending hours searching and sifting through information and second-guessing AI responses. Coveo Solutions Inc.‘s latest Employee Experience Relevance Report takes a closer look at how workplace tools are falling short ...
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Arista acquires VeloCloud from Broadcom and Todd Nightingale joins as president and COO

Arista Networks Inc. today announced it will acquire VeloCloud SD-WAN from Broadcom Inc., a deal that puts to bed ongoing reports that surfaced about six weeks ago. The purchase, for which a price wasn’t given but was reportedly about $1 billion, gives Arista a best-in-class software-defined wide-area network solution to complement its current high-end 7000 series ...
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Analysis: With HPE-Juniper deal now cleared, what’s ahead for customers?

Now that Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Juniper Networks Inc. this weekend settled with the U.S. Department of Justice, the $14 billion deal that will bring Juniper’s networking and security assets into the HPE portfolio will enable HPE to continue its transformation to a networking-first company. Many industry watchers, me included, had started to wonder if any ...
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NiCE-Snowflake partnership addresses a significant AI customer pain point

One of the major announcements at contact-center-as-a-service leader NiCE Ltd.‘s Interactions user event in Las Vegas last week was a partnership with Snowflake Inc., the cloud-based data warehousing company. This might seem like a strange partnership as typical partners for contact center vendors include customer relationship management companies, service firms and the like, but this addresses a huge ...