Zoom at the Crossroads: 5 Areas It Should Prioritize Next

This week, Zoom announced results for its fiscal year 2022 fourth-quarter, which ended January 31, 2022. Total revenue for the quarter was $1.071 billion, which was above the Streets expectations of $1.054 billion, equating to 21.4% year-over-year growth. The gross margin was also better than expected coming in at 78.3%, compared to the expected 74.9%, and up from 71.3% from the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021. The boost in gross margins came from platform optimization and lower usage during the holiday season. The current quarter numbers painted a rosy-looking picture.

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Zoom at the Crossroads: 5 Areas It Should Prioritize Next

Uniphore Rolls Out Conversational AI for Sales

Start-up Uniphore has announced its Q for Sales product, which brings the benefits of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to enterprise sales organizations.

Conversational AI is a hot topic but has primarily been applied to contact centers, where the technology has been focused on dissecting chatbot interactions between businesses and consumers. This has been the “low hanging fruit” for the conversational AI industry yet it’s just scratching the surface of what’s possible.

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Uniphore Rolls Out Conversational AI for Sales

Arista integrates network detection and response into the network

Arista Networks Inc. announced today that it’s embedding network detection and response or NDR capabilities into its network switches.

With an upgrade to EOS, Arista’s operating system, the 720XP series of switches will have NDR baked into it. The NDR capabilities, which Arista gained through its recent Awake Security acquisition, will give organizations greater visibility, automated threat hunting and risk mitigation without having to deploy additional network security products. In the past, organizations would have needed to deploy a packet broker or agents on endpoints.

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Arista integrates network detection and response into the network

How Palo Alto Networks modernized its security management with AI

The SIEM, or security information and event management console, has been a staple for security teams for more than a decade. It’s the single pane of glass that shows events, alerts, logs, and other information that can be used to find a breach. Despite its near ubiquity, I’ve long been a SIEM critic and believe the tool is long past its prime. This is certainly not the consensus; I’ve been criticized in the past for taking this stance.

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How Palo Alto Networks modernized its security management with AI