Zeus Kerravala

Being Canadian, I like to reference all things Canada. One of my favorite business quotes comes from the great Hall of Fame hockey player Wayne Gretzky, who stated it was important to “skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.” While it was made in the context of sports, it […]

Digital transformation has shaken up every industry as smaller, more agile companies have come out of nowhere to disrupt the status quo. For example, Airbnb’s valuation is now higher than Hilton and Hyatt combined, and it owns no properties. Traditional businesses need to be agile to compete in the digital era, and that’s caused them […]

San Jose, Calif.-based storage software maker Cohesity has announced its new MarketPlace that makes shopping for apps on its DataPlatform as simple as buying an app for an iPhone. If you’re not familiar with Cohesity, the company calls itself a “hyper-converged secondary storage” vendor, which is a fancy way of saying it uses hyper-converged infrastructure […]

Software-defined WANs have been available for the better part of five years with the on-premises vendors ruling the roost. This makes sense, because early adopters tend to have highly sophisticated IT organizations and embrace the do-it-yourself model. Now that the market is maturing, less-technical organization are finished dotting their I’s and crossing their T’s and […]

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are in the process of changing almost every aspect of our lives. My last post focused on how AI can be used to help businesses manage their IT environments better. This post will look at the impact ML has on security. The biggest challenge with cybersecurity is that […]

Application and desktop virtualization from Citrix has been around for decades. Despite predictions that software-as-a-service or competing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) providers would eat away at Citrix, it has remained the de facto standard for as long as I can remember. Prior to my career as an analyst, I spent many years in corporate IT, […]

There may be no hotter trend in networking and security than segmentation. The rise of software-defined systems have made it possible to carve up the network into virtual segments to isolate assets. In actuality, in discussions with IT pros, I find that segmentation is a little like going to the gym–where everyone talks about it […]

BARCELONA–This week at Cisco Live EMEA, Cisco Systems announced it was extending its Intent Based Networking (IBN) solution to the internet of things (IoT) edge. Prior to the IoT era, the network edge was fairly well-defined as wiring closets and branch offices. IoT plays havoc with the network, because the network edge now extends to […]

The one thing that has been consistent about the networking industry over the past several decades is change.  The latest innovation to come to the network is the concept of an Intent Based Network (IBN). The term has actually been around about a decade but has recently gone mainstream because Cisco Systems has been evangelizing […]

I recently ran across this blog series called “New World Blog – A window into business transformation and future technologies” on the Tata Communications website. At first glance, it might seem a bit strange for a network service provider to be hosting a blog that discusses topics such as digital transformation, productivity and smart businesses. […]