Like most vendor event keynotes this year, Michael Dell used his Dell Technologies World 2026 keynote to argue that artificial intelligence has moved beyond experimentation and into the physical, operational core of the enterprise. His central line, “Abundant intelligence is here,” framed the transformation not as another infrastructure refresh cycle but as the start of a new operating model in which intelligence is embedded across factories, hospitals, labs and edge environments.
The world of professional sports has seen many tech vendors cut sponsorship agreements with leagues and teams. The Women’s National Basketball Association and Amazon Web Services Inc. recently announced a partnership that appears to be more than a traditional sponsorship. AWS will provide a data platform that can turn casual viewers into committed fans by making the strategy, skill and stories of the women’s game radically more visible.
Veeam Software Group GmbH used VeeamON 2026 in New York City this week to punctuate its shift from “the backup company” to a data and artificial intelligence trust platform for the agentic era. With a new architectural layer and an aggressive product roadmap, Chief Executive Anand Eswaran (pictured) and President of Products and Technology Rehan Jalil are betting that the next decade of enterprise infrastructure will be defined less by how quickly you can restore a virtual machine or data set and more by how confidently you can let AI act on your data.
RingCentral Inc.‘s latest quarter shows a company that has quietly turned artificial intelligence from a future story into its primary engine for product differentiation, operational leverage and, increasingly, growth. What started as a unified-communications-as-a-service provider is evolving into an AI-first customer engagement platform, with RingCentral AIR and related products at the front door of every conversation.
At this year’s IBM Think, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna’s keynote focused on artificial intelligence’s impact on the modern enterprise. Instead of the usual tour through features and roadmaps, his talk challenged information technology leaders. The real divide in the next decade won’t be between those who do and don’t use AI, but between those who rebuild their operating models around AI and those who stay stuck in pilots and proofs of concept.