I had been waiting for the 2026 edition of Zoom Communications Inc.‘s Perspectives, its recently held annual get-together for industry analysts, because I find Zoom to be the most interesting vendor in the communications business today. Though it has many competitors, its product roadmap has been markedly different.
The RSAC cybersecurity conference is this week and for the last two years, the conversation at the event has revolved around generative artificial intelligence — that is, models we talk to, and they talked back and act as a copilot. At RSAC 2026, there has been a definite change in topic as the world has been shifting from conversational AI to agentic AI.
For years, the “wall” between storage and networking administrators has been a fixture of the enterprise data center. I spent the early part of my career as a network engineer and the arena of storage was a bit of a black box, and for most companies, that’s still the case. This is because these networks operated differently.
The intersection of professional sports and cloud computing has enabled leagues and organizations to accelerate innovation. However, the partnership between the PGA Tour and Amazon Web Services Inc. is currently entering a new phase: the hyper-personalized era. This week the golf world descended upon TPC Sawgrass for THE PLAYERS Championship, to watch Cam Young take the title. AWS and the PGA Tour are using the event to debut a suite of technologies that doesn’t just track the ball but interprets the game.
Enterprises are currently fighting a two-front war. On one side, there is an aggressive push toward AI adoption; on the other, an infrastructure landscape so fractured across edge, cloud and on-premises sites that scaling becomes nearly impossible.