There is a growing duality of opposing forces that needs to be dealt with if customers are to have success with artificial intelligence. My research shows that more than 90% of organizations believe the network to be more important to business operations than it was two years ago. At the same time, almost the same number believe it to be more complex. These opposing forces of complexity and importance needs to get solved if companies are to attain the return on investment they seek with AI.

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Cisco gives customer experience a big dose of AI

Even in auto racing, it’s all about the data today. Amazon Web Services Inc. is a global partner of Formula One and has been the official cloud and machine learning provider for the league since 2018. The dynamic, longstanding partnership comes down to three core pillars: transforming data into racing intelligence, fan experience enhancement and technical transformation.

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How AWS is partnering with F1 to reshape auto racing

Scaling artificial intelligence is not just a compute problem but increasingly a network issue, a reality that Arista Networks addressed Wednesday by unveiling its latest switch family targeted toward AI data centers. It’s new generation, the R4 Series platform is based on the Broadcom Jericho3 Qumran3D silicon and is designed for AI, cloud data centers and routed backbone deployments.

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Arista Networks debuts next-gen platforms for AI data centers

As artificial intelligence continues to steamroll its way into every part of our lives, Nvidia Corp.’s GPU Technology Conference events have grown in importance, and this week’s fall installment in Washington, D.C. provided the customary showcase of how and what is possible.

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Nvidia GTC DC: The rise of AI factories and a push for US leadership

Contact-center-as-a-service leader NiCE Ltd. is holding its analyst event in Vienna, Austria, this week, and it’s the first one with Scott Russell as captain of the Starship NiCE. The chief executive isn’t the only new leader, as Michelle Cooper is now running marketing and Jeff Comstock takes over as the president of products and technology. Russell, Cooper and Comstock all succeeded some of the longest-tenured and successful executives in communications as Barak Eilam, Einat Weiss and Barry Cooper respectively, all stepped down within the last year.

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Speed, Frankenstein, voice and other takeaways from NiCE CEO Scott Russell’s keynote at Analyst Summit