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The user interface of the future is your voice: Inside 8×8’s AI Studio
For years, the promise of “no-code” artificial intelligence has felt a bit like a “some assembly required” IKEA desk — sure, you aren’t sawing the wood yourself, but you’re trying to decipher how to assemble dozens of parts, many of which seem to fit poorly. With communications, low-code often had a nice user interface, but ...
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Zoom Perspectives: Why ‘agentic’ work is the new enterprise standard
I had been waiting for the 2026 edition of Zoom Communications Inc.‘s Perspectives, its recently held annual get-together for industry analysts, because I find Zoom to be the most interesting vendor in the communications business today. Though it has many competitors, its product roadmap has been markedly different. Other unified-communications-as-a-service and contact-center-as-a-service providers have been ...
How the NFL is using Amazon Quick to humanize the offseason
For years, the National Football League offseason was a period defined by information asymmetry. While front offices sat behind “glass walls” in war rooms, armed with proprietary Next Gen Stats and sophisticated modeling tools, the average fan was left to navigate a fragmented landscape of mock drafts, cap calculators, PDF guides and Twitter rumors. Last ...
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The AI infrastructure bottleneck: Why ‘good enough’ Kubernetes isn’t cutting it anymore
While security eyes are on the RSAC conference in San Francisco this week, the compute world is focused on KubeCon EU in Amsterdam. But the theme of artificial intelligence is the pervasive across both, as in enterprise information technology we’ve reached a point where “AI curiosity” has officially been replaced by “AI urgency.” Every chief information officer ...
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The agentic workforce is here: Why Cisco just put a ‘Claw’ on AI security
The RSAC cybersecurity conference is this week and for the last two years, the conversation at the event has revolved around generative artificial intelligence — that is, models we talk to, and they talked back and act as a copilot. At RSAC 2026, there has been a definite change in topic as the world has been shifting ...
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The agentic era: How Palo Alto Networks is turning security into a business enabler
For years, the relationship between cybersecurity and business innovation has been a zero-sum game. Security teams were the “Department of No,” tasked with slowing down adoption to ensure safety. Given the business pressure to get artificial intelligence deployed, the security industry has been trying to flip this script by rethinking security along platform lines. With ...
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The convergence of context: Why Nvidia’s BlueField-4 STX marries the network and storage admin
For years, the “wall” between storage and networking administrators has been a fixture of the enterprise data center. I spent the early part of my career as a network engineer and the arena of storage was a bit of a black box, and for most companies, that’s still the case. This is because these networks ...
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The AI workforce is now ‘hirable’: How Nvidia is rewiring healthcare from the inside out
As an industry, healthcare tends to be slow-moving and significantly behind others. There are many reasons for this, including budgets, availability of technology and the fact that any errors in healthcare can result in lost lives. Healthcare transformation has been a big part of past Nvidia GTC conferences, and it was again this year. In fact, ...
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The intelligent green: How AWS and the PGA Tour are reimagining the fan experience through agentic AI
The intersection of professional sports and cloud computing has enabled leagues and organizations to accelerate innovation. However, the partnership between the PGA Tour and Amazon Web Services Inc. is currently entering a new phase: the hyper-personalized era. This week the golf world descended upon TPC Sawgrass for THE PLAYERS Championship, to watch Cam Young take ...
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Beyond the plumbing: How Cisco and Nvidia are industrializing the ‘token economy’
The initial phase of the artificial intelligence gold rush was defined by “The Build.” Hyperscalers and model builders raced to secure every available Nvidia Corp. H100 GPU, constructing massive, centralized cathedrals of compute. But as the industry descends from the peak of inflated expectations toward real-world utility, the conversation is shifting. AI is moving from ...









