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Veeam’s big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026

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.

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Veeam’s big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026

AIR, ARR and AI: Inside RingCentral’s transformation into an AI-first engagement platform

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.

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AIR, ARR and AI: Inside RingCentral’s transformation into an AI-first engagement platform

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: Thoughts from Arvind Krishna’s keynote at IBM Think

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.

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Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: Thoughts from Arvind Krishna’s keynote at IBM Think

Nvidia’s MRC: When ‘just Ethernet’ isn’t enough for gigascale AI

Nvidia Corp.‘s latest networking innovations meet the needs of a new kind of network that supports the unique demands of artificial intelligence factories. Ethernet is no longer a generic plumbing choice but an enabler of high-performance AI. With today’s unveiling of Multipath Reliable Connection, or MRC, on Spectrum-X Ethernet, Nvidia is pushing Ethernet even deeper into AI-native territory — and doing so in partnership with OpenAI Group PBC and Microsoft Corp.

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Nvidia’s MRC: When ‘just Ethernet’ isn’t enough for gigascale AI

Extreme Connect 2026: Agentic AI, Platform ONE and the next phase of enterprise networking

Extreme Networks Inc. used its Extreme Connect 2026 user conference this week to make a strong case that artificial intelligence-driven networking has finally arrived. Building on Platform ONE, the company rolled out a full-stack vision spanning new Wi-Fi 7 access points, enhanced fabric-ready switching and a second-generation artificial intelligence layer called Agent ONE, designed to act less like a chatbot and more like an operational co-worker for NetOps teams.

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Extreme Connect 2026: Agentic AI, Platform ONE and the next phase of enterprise networking