Zeus Kerravala is an eWEEK regular contributor and the founder and principal analyst with ZK Research. He spent 10 years at Yankee Group and prior to that held a number of corporate IT positions. Kerravala is considered one of the top 10 IT analysts in the world by Apollo Research, which evaluated 3,960 technology analysts and their individual press coverage metrics.
The cloud has continued to grow in popularity, but there is a stark shift is happening in the market. Instead of choosing a single cloud provider, organizations are making multi-cloud the norm. A recent ZK Research survey found that 84% of enterprises want multi-cloud, because it lets them take a best-of-breed approach to cloud. Businesses […]
Most large companies have corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, but few have taken it as seriously as networking market leader Cisco Systems. One of the company’s ongoing initiatives is to help others who want to make the world a better place. This enables Cisco’s CSR investment dollars to go further, because the empowerment of others […]
More than ever, employees are under pressure to work faster and more efficiently. While technology is driving much of the change, it can also be a hindrance to getting work done. The same tools that enable communication and collaboration are affecting productivity. Findings from Workfront’s 2020 State of Work report show the modern workforce is […]
Network management startup Nyansa has announced an update to its Voyance AIOps platform that is designed to reduce the number of monitoring tools being used through tool consolidation. To accomplish this, Nyansa has beefed up Voyance to include feature rich monitoring of the wired network. Already strong with wireless LAN, Voyance now includes support for […]
A few days ago, Arista Networks announced a couple of new cloud networking features that enable companies to move to a NetDevOps management model. For those not familiar with the term “NetDevOps,” here’s an explanation: As the name implies, it brings DevOps principals to network operations with the ultimate goal of running a network as […]
Earlier this month, team collaboration vendor Symphony held its user event, Innovate, in Manhattan. At the event, it unveiled Symphony 2.0, a major upgrade to its flagship product. Team collaboration is becoming a mainstream application, so many eWEEK readers may be scratching their heads thinking: “Who the heck is Symphony? And why haven’t I heard of them […]
A couple of weeks ago at the Mobile World Congress event in Los Angeles, graphics processing unit market leader NVIDIA unveiled its EGX Edge Supercomputing platform. The product is designed for all edge applications including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence and internet of things. This was the first time NVIDIA has been part of […]
This week at its 2019 Insight user event in Las Vegas, data management vendor NetApp announced Keystone, an agile program designed to help customers move to hybrid, multi-cloud environments. NetApp is positioning Keystone as a program that “Reinvents the customer experience” for its customer as it provides a range of flexible solutions to companies to […]
Software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) are moving out of the early adopter phase into mass adoption. To date, the majority of deployments have been by organizations that lean toward a do-it-yourself model. These are typically technically advanced organizations willing to assume some risks and bumps along the way to be first to market. Including SD-WAN, this will […]
The internet is easily the most pervasive network on the planet, but there have always been questions regarding its ability to be a business resource. The primary issue is that there really is no “internet” or single owner. Rather it’s a collection of interconnected networks that make up the massive super network we know today. […]