As zero-trust security vendor Zscaler Inc. held its user event, Zenith Live, this week in Las Vegas, Chief Executive Jay Chaudhry sought to shift the company’s traditional narrative. In his Tuesday keynote, rather than focus on Zscaler as a replacement for virtual private networks and firewalls — though that was clearly articulated as well — Chaudhry (pictured) emphasized how zero trust everywhere could unlock the potential of artificial intelligence.

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Surfing the AI wave with zero trust everywhere: Five takeaways from CEO Jay Chaudhry’s keynote at Zscaler’s Zenith Live

Fabrix.ai Inc., previously known as CloudFabrix, has evolved from focusing on providing a data-driven artificial intelligence operations platform to now offering an agentic platform for information technology operations. The Fabrix.ai platform delivers a purpose-built agentic AI operational intelligence platform that enables enterprise users to streamline IT operations use cases, make better decisions more quickly and successfully accelerate digital transformation.

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Fabrix.ai brings fresh take on agentic AI operational intelligence

Extreme Networks Inc. is holding its user event, Extreme Connect 2025 this week in Paris — a fitting city for the event as it’s home to many customers of Extreme, including the Musee d’Orsay and Charles De Gaulle Airport. The cloud networking provider used the event to announce several new products that focused on making the network simpler to deploy and easier to manage.

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Extreme Networks goes big on platform and AI at Connect 2025

As IBM Corp.‘s client and partner event, Think 2025, wrapped up last week in Boston, to no one’s surprise the primary theme of the event to no one’s surprise was artificial intelligence — but there were several other related topics, such as quantum and hybrid cloud. I thought the keynotes and Q&A with IBM Chief Executive Arvind Krishna were excellent as he provided his vision for those areas, which were differentiated from what I’ve heard before.

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Five takeaways from IBM Think 2025

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. announced a solid third quarter Wednesday, posting a beat and raise. Here are my top five thoughts from this quarter.

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Thoughts from Cisco’s third-quarter earnings results