As IBM Corp.‘s client and partner event, Think 2025, wrapped up last week in Boston, to no one’s surprise the primary theme of the event to no one’s surprise was artificial intelligence — but there were several other related topics, such as quantum and hybrid cloud. I thought the keynotes and Q&A with IBM Chief Executive Arvind Krishna were excellent as he provided his vision for those areas, which were differentiated from what I’ve heard before.

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Five takeaways from IBM Think 2025

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. announced a solid third quarter Wednesday, posting a beat and raise. Here are my top five thoughts from this quarter.

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Thoughts from Cisco’s third-quarter earnings results

Riverbed Technology LLC Tuesday kicked off its 23rd anniversary with the biggest product launch in almost a decade. The company that pioneered wide-area network optimization introduced major enhancements to its acceleration technology to help enterprises manage the explosive growth of data and artificial intelligence workloads.

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Riverbed goes back to the future with a renewed focus on acceleration

Last week I was at the industry event, RSAC and this week I’m at IBM Think, a vendor event and this got me thinking about the difference between the two types of conferences and how much they’ve changed over the years. Flashback to 15 years ago: If you wanted to experience a blockbuster tech event, you were probably booking your ticket to something like Networld + Interop.

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Why tech vendor conferences are a must-attend for the modern innovator

Palo Alto Networks Inc. kicked off this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco by introducing new capabilities for its ever-expanding security portfolio.

The announcements were focused on its two major platforms: network security and Cortex. Palo Alto Networks has introduced Prisma Access Browser 2.0 into its secure access service edge offering. In late 2023, Palo Alto acquired Talon to jump into the secure enterprise browser market and now it has made the offering part of its SASE stack.

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Analysis: Palo Alto Networks introduces new security capabilities at RSAC Conference