Beyond the Fairways: The Technology Powering the U.S. Open
Behind the Scenes of One of Golf’s Most Demanding Technology Environments When fans think about the U.S. Open, they think about championship golf, iconic courses, and dramatic moments on the leaderboard. What most people never see is the sophisticated technology infrastructure operating behind the scenes to support the event. During a recent tour of the […]
HPE Discover 2026: Networking is Foundational
HPE Discover 2026 welcomed about 30,000 attendees to the Venetian Conference Center this year. This year’s event felt fundamentally different from previous years, and not just because the kickoff was not in the Sphere. There were significant announcements across AI infrastructure, networking, hybrid cloud, observability, security, storage, and operations. However, the bigger story was perhaps […]
VULTR’s Enterprise AI Ambitions Signal the Next Phase of Cloud Infrastructure
As AI Moves from Experimentation to Production, Infrastructure Requirements Are Changing One of the clearest themes emerging across the technology industry in 2026 is that artificial intelligence is no longer primarily an exercise in experimentation. Enterprises are moving beyond proofs of concept and pilot projects toward operational deployment, forcing organizations to rethink the infrastructure required […]
Context Is Becoming the Missing Layer in Enterprise AI
Better Models Alone Are Not Closing the AI Value Gap Enterprise AI investment continues to accelerate, but business outcomes are not keeping pace. Organizations have spent the past several years focusing on larger models, faster inference, and broader deployment of generative AI capabilities. Yet many enterprises continue to struggle with governance, accuracy, operational scalability, and […]
Cisco Customer Experience Evolves from Reactive Support to AI-Driven Operational Intelligence
Why Customer Experience Is Becoming a Strategic AI Platform At Cisco Live 2026, much of the conversation centered on AI infrastructure, agentic operations, and autonomous networking. However, one of the more important shifts taking place may be occurring within Cisco Customer Experience (CX). During a recent conversation with Eric Knipp, Senior Vice President and General […]
Cisco Live 2026 Signals the Shift from AI Experimentation to Agentic Operations
Cisco Live 2026 Signals the Shift from AI Experimentation to Agentic Operations At Cisco Live 2026, one theme stood above all others: AI is moving beyond experimentation and productivity assistance into operational deployment. In a conversation with Jeff Schultz, Senior Vice President of Portfolio Strategy at Cisco, it became clear that Cisco views the industry […]
Cisco’s Reinvention Enables Organizations to Scale AI: Thoughts from Cisco Live 2026
The Platform Strategy Evolution Cisco Live 2026 hosted 20,000 attendees from 75+ countries in Las Vegas. The event was filled with new product announcements, demonstrations, and technical innovations, but the most important takeaway was not any single technology launch. Rather, it was the continued evolution of Cisco itself. Two years ago, Jeetu Patel remarked that […]
Digital Sovereignty Becomes a Strategic Enterprise Architecture Priority
Why digital sovereignty is evolving beyond compliance into a core enterprise architecture and AI strategy concern.
317 | Breaking Analysis | Snowflake, Databricks and the Model Makers: The Battle for the Agentic Client and AI Backend
Agentic AI is being misread as a set of separate battles: Snowflake versus Databricks, copilots versus agents, model makers versus application vendors. We believe the larger fight is converging around a single question: who owns the new intelligent client and the AI backend that makes it useful? The new client is the agent-based system of engagement – Snowflake CoWork and CoCo, Databricks Genie, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini Enterprise, ChatGPT/Codex, Claude/Cowork and others. These clients will become the place where business users, builders and agents get work done. But they require a new backend – what we call the System of Intelligence – that models enterprise data, business rules, institutional knowledge, context and workflows in a way that humans and agents can understand and act upon.