Zeus Kerravala

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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.

Tangoe Report: Complexity, Cost Eat Into Cloud Benefits

Expense and asset management provider Tangoe recently released a report that takes a close look at the challenges associated with managing multi-cloud environments. The company partnered with CIO Magazine and Foundry and surveyed 200 IT decision makers at large enterprises. In sum, the report found that cloud is highly utilized – but a variety of issues […]

Tampa Bay Lightning Hockey: Digitally Transformed Fan Experience

It’s been well documented that customer experience is now the top brand differentiator. Brands need to provide their audience, whether it’s a retail customer, student, patient or in the case of the 3-time Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning, a sports fan, with a differentiated experience to create repeat customers. The sports world can be […]

AWS Announces New Chime SDK Call Analytics

The communications industry’s largest show, Enterprise Connect, is being held this week in Orlando, Fl. At the event, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its new Amazon Chime SDK call analytics, which are a set of capabilities that simplify and lower the cost of recording and generating insights into real time audio calls. The service works […]

Bandwidth Maestro Orchestrates Across Communication Systems

The 2023 Edition of Enterprise Connect kicks off this week in Orlando, Fl. This is the industry’s largest telecom and networking event and while it’s unlikely we will see Mickey there, there will be a veritable cornucopia of news from vendors. One of the more interesting announcements was from Bandwidth, whose new Maestro offering will […]

NVIDIA Dives Deep into the Omniverse at GTC

At the recent GPU Developer Conference (GTC), NVIDIA announced a range of new hardware, software and cloud solutions and partnerships. One of the most consequential and exciting areas of news is a series of announcements related to Omniverse. On a related topic: What is Generative AI? Omniverse Brings Industrial Metaverse to Life NVIDIA’s Omniverse is a […]

NVIDIA Eases The Complexity Of Robot Training

This week, GPU market leader NVIDIA is holding its virtual GPU Technology Conference (GTC). Over the years, GTC has evolved from a graphics and gaming show to an industry event dedicated to all things artificial intelligence (AI). One of the major use cases for AI and NVIDIA technology is in the area of robotics. This […]

Inside the Wi-Fi 7 Standard: Growth and Business Importance

I discussed the upcoming release of Wi-Fi 7 in my latest ZKast with David Coleman, Director of Wireless at the Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks, which already has Wi-Fi 7 products in the works. Coleman explained what’s new in the standard and how it compares to Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, 5G, and private […]

NVIDIA Report: Telco Transformation Requires Artificial Intelligence

Mobile World Congress (MWC) kicks off this week in Barcelona. The theme of the event is telco transformation – as it has been for some time. Clearly, the evolution of telcos is long overdue. Most communication and network service providers have networks that rely too heavily on people, spend too much on infrastructure and deliver […]

Unified Communications Tools Fuel Hybrid Work but Creates Risks

Software company Theta Lake, which specializes in unified communications (UC) compliance and security, recently conducted its annual benchmark survey late last year to understand how communications platforms are being used and which issues organizations are struggling with the most. More than 500 compliance and security professionals in financial services, healthcare, and government sectors participated in […]

Integrating Business Phones With Microsoft Teams: Verizon’s Options

Adoption of Microsoft Teams for collaboration exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic and has continued to surge as hybrid work models have become the norm. According to Microsoft, Teams reached 270 million users in 2022, up from 145 million in 2021. More than one million organizations use Microsoft Teams as their default messaging platform. Microsoft also […]