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 […]
NetApp’s AI Opportunity: Infrastructure and Beyond
NetApp’s Industry Analyst Conference 2026 showcased a company building deliberately from its roots. The unified data fabric that has always defined NetApp’s enterprise story remains the foundation. While infrastructure and data residency still matter, metadata, semantic search, governance, AI data catalogs, sovereignty, policy, and cyber resilience are increasingly prominent discussion topics. This shift reflects how […]
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 […]
Why Data Primacy May Define Enterprise AI
For decades, applications have served as the center of gravity for enterprise technology. Business logic, workflows, data models, permissions, and semantics have largely been embedded within individual applications. Organizations purchased ERP systems, CRM platforms, supply chain applications, and industry-specific software, then spent years building integrations between them. At its Accelerate 2026 conference, EverPure highlighted that […]
Identity Is Becoming the Control Plane for AI Agents
Vendors are positioning for a world where AI agents operate across the enterprise, making decisions, accessing systems, and executing workflows with minimal human involvement. Orchestration layers, policy-driven architectures, and agentic control planes are taking shape. Yet most organizations have not answered a more basic question: Where are my agents? That question surfaced repeatedly in recent […]
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 […]