Zoom Communications Inc. is a fascinating company in that it’s one of the few corporate technology brands that resonates with end users as well as information technology pros. I’m aware of many instances where the IT organization was considering an alternate communications product but the demand from the user community was so strong that Zoom was purchased. Zoom’s ease of use made it the product of choice during the stay-at-home period of the pandemic and user loyalty grew from there.
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.
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.
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.
The partnership between Atlassian Corp., the enterprise software giant best known for products such as Jira and Confluence, and Formula 1 team Williams Racing is far more than a simple sponsorship with a logo on a helmet. One of the aspects I like most about Formula 1 is that the value of all technical sponsorships counts towards the race teams operating cap.