Zeus Kerravala

When faced with a ransomware attack, organizations and government agencies need to have robust protocols in place to respond quickly. The importance of regular and secure backups cannot be overstated. The City of New Orleans learned this lesson firsthand during a complex and time-consuming backup and recovery process following a ransomware attack. In the aftermath […]

At Cisco’s global user event, Cisco Live, held recently in Las Vegas, Cisco didn’t launch several new routers, switches, and security devices as is usually the case. Instead, the announcements were centered around platforms and cross-product integration to simplify operations while delivering more value. Cisco has a product portfolio that is arguably the broadest and […]

NVIDIA and Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank have partnered to create a platform for generative artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G applications based on NVIDIA’s GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip. SoftBank plans to build data centers in Japan that, together with NVIDIA, can house generative AI and wireless apps on a shared server platform. This multi-tenant solution is […]

This week Veeam is holding its annual user event, VeeamON, in Miami, FL. This is the 9th year that Veeam has held the event, and attendance has steadily grown as Veeam’s customer base has enlarged. Headcount this year topped 16,000 people, an impressive number for a company not even two decades old. This is also […]

Last week IBM held its annual Think event in Orlando, FL. The venue was near “Islands of Adventure,” which I felt was an interesting backdrop as corporate IT has become just that: a bunch of islands of adventure. Between generative AI, ChatGPT, quantum computing and security, businesses are certainly due for a fair share of […]

Cisco recently rolled out a new service called Customer Digital Experience Monitoring, which integrates its application monitoring tool AppDynamics and ThousandEyes network intelligence tools. The integration is bi-directional so that data can be shared between both systems in real-time. This improves the user experience of digital apps, and it also allows different teams within an […]

Networking vendor Extreme Networks is holding its user event, Connect, this week in Berlin, Germany. At the conference, the company announced ExtremeCloud Edge, which brings Extreme’s network management capabilities to the network edge. This includes network operations as well as analytics, AI-infused functions, and networking applications. Like most network vendors today, Extreme offers cloud management via […]

I recently chatted with Garth Landers, Theta Lake’s director of global product marketing, about the Mural partnership and how the company is tackling issues surrounding unified communications, compliance, and security.

Cybersecurity and endpoint management company Tanium is broadening its portfolio with the launch of its digital employee experience (DEX) solution. The solution is part of Tanium’s converged endpoint management (XEM) platform, which allows IT teams to proactively measure and manage employees’ digital experiences with self-help capabilities, automated remediation, sentiment surveys, and notification features. Contrary to […]

Cohesity and Microsoft recently announced they have expanded their partnership to enhance data security, threat detection, and protection against cyberattacks using artificial intelligence. The goal is to help organizations optimize cloud usage while mitigating risks in an increasingly hybrid and multicloud world. Cohesity already offers backup services for Microsoft 365 on Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]