Extreme Networks Inc. is holding its user event, Extreme Connect 2025 this week in Paris — a fitting city for the event as it’s home to many customers of Extreme, including the Musee d’Orsay and Charles De Gaulle Airport. The cloud networking provider used the event to announce several new products that focused on making the network simpler to deploy and easier to manage.
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.
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.
This is the time of year when professional football teams are hoping to get the next Tom Brady, Joe Montana or Deion Sanders. Every now and then there are a couple of “can’t miss” prospects such as Peyton Manning or Saquon Barkley, but there are often far more draft busts than hits. It raises the question of why this is given the amount of money and resources teams pour into scouting, the NFL Combine, workout days and more.
Two words are practically ubiquitous in technology discussions these days: artificial intelligence and cloud. At last week’s Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, many emerging technology companies discussed and demonstrated how they leverage AI and the cloud to deliver innovative products and solutions to their customers.