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.
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.
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 organization to work together and make faster decisions.
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 its Cloud IQ portal.
I’ve talked to enough companies now to know that hybrid will be the most common work model moving forward. My research shows that 75% of users will continue to work from home at least one day a week, emphasizing digital tools, such as unified communications and collaboration (UCaaS) tools.