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Indonesia to establish AI center of excellence with support from Nvidia, Cisco and Indosat

The artificial intelligence sprint is on, and not just within companies: This race is being held at a geographic level as well. The Middle East has been very active with AI, as has India and, of course, the U.S. This week the Indonesian government is taking a major step toward establishing itself as an AI thought leader and achieving its sovereign AI goals by supporting the efforts of Nvidia Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and the Indonesian telecommunications leader Indosat to establish an AI Center of Excellence in the country.

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Indonesia to establish AI center of excellence with support from Nvidia, Cisco and Indosat

Coveo report finds the employee interest in AI is high, but so is employee frustration

With all the hype around artificial intelligence, work should be easier and more efficient these days. But that’s far from the truth. Employees are still spending hours searching and sifting through information and second-guessing AI responses. Coveo Solutions Inc.‘s latest Employee Experience Relevance Report takes a closer look at how workplace tools are falling short on EX and why more companies need to have a better approach to knowledge discovery.

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Coveo report finds the employee interest in AI is high, but so is employee frustration

Arista acquires VeloCloud from Broadcom and Todd Nightingale joins as president and COO

Arista Networks Inc. today announced it will acquire VeloCloud SD-WAN from Broadcom Inc., a deal that puts to bed ongoing reports that surfaced about six weeks ago. The purchase, for which a price wasn’t given but was reportedly about $1 billion, gives Arista a best-in-class software-defined wide-area network solution to complement its current high-end 7000 series router which run the Cloud EOS operating system. VeloCloud has a wide range of cloud-managed SD-WAN offerings with integrated security enabling Arista to reach another tier of customer.

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Arista acquires VeloCloud from Broadcom and Todd Nightingale joins as president and COO

Analysis: With HPE-Juniper deal now cleared, what’s ahead for customers?

Now that Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Juniper Networks Inc. this weekend settled with the U.S. Department of Justice, the $14 billion deal that will bring Juniper’s networking and security assets into the HPE portfolio will enable HPE to continue its transformation to a networking-first company. Many industry watchers, me included, had started to wonder if any agreement could be reached prior to the upcoming July 9 court date.

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Analysis: With HPE-Juniper deal now cleared, what’s ahead for customers?

NiCE-Snowflake partnership addresses a significant AI customer pain point

One of the major announcements at contact-center-as-a-service leader NiCE Ltd.‘s Interactions user event in Las Vegas last week was a partnership with Snowflake Inc., the cloud-based data warehousing company. This might seem like a strange partnership as typical partners for contact center vendors include customer relationship management companies, service firms and the like, but this addresses a huge customer pain point, which is management of data.

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NiCE-Snowflake partnership addresses a significant AI customer pain point