Scaling artificial intelligence is not just a compute problem but increasingly a network issue, a reality that Arista Networks addressed Wednesday by unveiling its latest switch family targeted toward AI data centers. It’s new generation, the R4 Series platform is based on the Broadcom Jericho3 Qumran3D silicon and is designed for AI, cloud data centers and routed backbone deployments. ...

As artificial intelligence continues to steamroll its way into every part of our lives, Nvidia Corp.’s GPU Technology Conference events have grown in importance, and this week’s fall installment in Washington, D.C. provided the customary showcase of how and what is possible. Nvidia has been at the heart of the AI revolution since it began as the ...

Contact-center-as-a-service leader NiCE Ltd. is holding its analyst event in Vienna, Austria, this week, and it’s the first one with Scott Russell as captain of the Starship NiCE. The chief executive isn’t the only new leader, as Michelle Cooper is now running marketing and Jeff Comstock takes over as the president of products and technology. Russell, ...

Veeam Software Group GmbH today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Securiti Inc. for $1.725 billion, by far the largest purchase made by the company to date. Though Veeam has made many acquisitions under the tenure of Chief Executive Anand Eswaran (pictured), this is the first in the security market. As a data protection company, Veeam can ...

At IBM Corp.‘s TechXchange 2025 event last week in Orlando, Florida, artificial intelligence was the primary theme, as it is at every event today. But the messaging and announcements from this conference were about getting customers over the hump and moving AI from vision to adoption. The pace of technological change is faster than I’ve ever seen ...

I attend more than my fair share of events every year, but my favorite is the Global Citizen Festival in New York City. For those not familiar with it, it’s an international education and advocacy organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and its system causes. The goal of Global Citizen is to end extreme poverty ...

It seems every day there’s a new announcement regarding an economic event with artificial intelligence. Recently, Nvidia Corp. made an investment in OpenAI and then OpenAI turned around and took a stake in Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Then there was the $6.3 billion deal between CoreWeave Inc. and Nvidia. Why so much activity? The reason ...

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced its 8223 routing system, powered by its new Silicon One P200 chip — a new network system designed to unlock artificial intelligence’s potential through massive scale. Earlier this year, Nvidia Corp. introduced the concept of “scale-across” architectures as AI is now hitting the limits of a single data center. A “unit of ...

As Nvidia Corp. announced new robotics innovations at last week’s Conference on Robot Learning in South Korea, the company continues to extend its product line with new capabilities and enhancements. Nvidia announcements at CoRL included: The Isaac GR00T N1.6 open foundation reasoning vision language action model that provides robots with humanlike reasoning to break down complex ...

As Cisco Systems Inc. held its WebexOne conference this week in San Diego, to no one’s shock the theme of the 2025 event was artificial intelligence — and, of all the markets Cisco plays in, the ones Webex addresses have the most direct end user impact. “We are squarely in the next era of AI, where we are ...