High-performance network provider Arista Networks Inc. today announced the next wave of innovations for its campus network solutions. The new products include expansion of its Virtual ES with Path Aliasing, or VESPA, offering, which will make it easier for businesses to deploy large-scale mobility domains. The Santa Clara networking company also announced it is expanding its Autonomous Virtual Assistant, or AVA, its agentic artificial intelligence solution, to help organizations streamline AI operations use cases.

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Arista scooters its way to scalable wireless with VESPA and introduces new AI capabilities

Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Matt Garman’s keynote at AWS re:Invent was filled with product updates with vision sprinkled in to help customers understand why the innovation matters. To no surprise, this year’s keynote had a strong focus on the explosion of artificial intelligence and agents.

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Five thoughts from CEO Matt Garman’s keynote at AWS re:Invent

Given Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.‘s Juniper acquisition has now had a bit of time to percolate, I was expecting to see at HPE’s European version of its user event Discover this week in Barcelona how it’s using the combined assets to reshape itself for the artificial intelligence era. The event is the first real glimpse into how the Juniper Networks acquisition is taking shape, just five months after the deal closed.

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Aruba meets Juniper Mist: At Discover, HPE unveils Its unified AI-native network brain

The cloud and artificial intelligence have the power to change the world of sports, and few technology providers have done a better job of executing on this than Amazon Web Services Inc. The company has partnerships with the NFL, Bundesliga, PGA TOUR, F1 and many more. With each organization, AWS works closely with them to deliver several fan, league and team facing innovations.

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DP World Tour partners with AWS to change the European golf experience

There is a growing duality of opposing forces that needs to be dealt with if customers are to have success with artificial intelligence. My research shows that more than 90% of organizations believe the network to be more important to business operations than it was two years ago. At the same time, almost the same number believe it to be more complex. These opposing forces of complexity and importance needs to get solved if companies are to attain the return on investment they seek with AI.

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Cisco gives customer experience a big dose of AI