HP Inc.’s Amplify partner conference, held in Las Vegas March 5-7 under the “Future Ready – United We Win” theme, focused on converging hybrid systems and GenAI. Several announcements came out of the three days in Sin City, including a broad portfolio of AI PCs, role-based artificial intelligence training and certification and AI data science for channel partners that use role-based AI training and certification program, a look at the results of a new AI-related worker survey, a new Color LaserJet and new services and software.

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HP announces AI PCs, printing, training and certification at Amplify partner conference

Veeam Inc., which already protects some 18 million Microsoft 365 users is extending its partnership with Microsoft Corp. to develop joint AI solutions for its data protection and ransomware recovery platform. In an announcement today, the company said its engineering collaboration will result in capabilities to help keep organizations running despite attacks, outages and natural disasters.

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Veeam announces strategic partnership with Microsoft to integrate Copilot and AI services

Arista Networks Inc. today released a new network observability software offering that brings together network infrastructure performance and data from compute and server systems of record to provide application and workload performance insights for data centers, campuses and wide-area networks.

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Arista looks to become numero UNO with new Universal Network Observability offering

In its recently reported fourth-quarter results, Zoom Video Communications Inc. put up strong numbers, beating revenue expectations by $17 million and operating income by $32 million.
Looking ahead to fiscal year 2025, Zoom management projected revenue of about $4.6 billion, representing revenue growth of 1.6%, in line with Wall Street expectations.

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Zoom’s most recent quarter checks all the right boxes

Cloud-based communications provider 8×8 launched a new offering called 8×8 Engage, designed to meet the needs of customer-facing employees who operate outside the traditional contact center environment. The platform combines 8×8’s unified communications as a service (UCaaS) and contact center as a service (CCaaS) capabilities in a user-friendly format.

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8×8’s Engage Product to Bring Contact Center Capabilities Outside the Contact Center