Pure Storage made a couple of significant announcements last week at its annual user event, Pure Accelerate, in Las Vegas. First, the company said it had released three new advanced storage-as-a-service service level agreements for the Pure Storage platform: cyber recovery, resilience and site rebalance. The company also announced new capabilities in the Pure Storage platform aimed at helping information technology and business leaders improve artificial intelligence deployments, enhance cyber resilience and modernize their applications.

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In a pair of announcements, Pure Storage looks to help customers with AI and ransomware

Customer experience improvement remains a top initiative for business and information technology leaders. The stakes are high in CX. My research has found that 95% of companies now compete on CX and, last year, two-thirds of millennials admitted to switching brands because of a single bad experience. Contact centers and the customer experience professionals who staff them are the unsung heroes of many businesses.

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NICE customers provide best practices for adopting AI in the contact center

Cisco Live was held last week in what has become my second home, Las Vegas. I had dubbed this the most important Cisco Live in the Chuck Robbins era, as the company is looking to put a stake in the artificial intelligence ground. Simultaneously, Cisco Systems Inc. is integrating its Splunk acquisitions and reshaping the security business in real time. For most companies, doing one of these things would be all-encompassing, but these are not typical times.

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Five thoughts from Cisco Live 2024

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Arista Networks Inc. as a publicly traded company, and to celebrate, the company held a special event at the New York Stock Exchange, which is not only the exchange that trades ANET stock but also one of the early Arista customers. However, the shindig at the NYSE wasn’t the only way the company marked the IPOiversary. Arista also announced some artificial intelligence-related news.

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Arista releases Etherlink platforms for AI networking focused on large clusters

Nvidia Corp. today unveiled a series of advancements in artificial intelligence technology at Computex 2024, where it’s showcasing its latest innovations in consumer computing, accelerated computing, networking, enterprise computing, and industrial digitalization. From new AI laptops to the powerful Blackwell platform and the Spectrum-X Ethernet network, Nvidia’s announcements at Computex offer a comprehensive view of the future of AI and computing.

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AI, AI and more AI: A deep dive into Nvidia’s announcements at Computex 2024