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Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of August 10, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Veeam Adds 6 Hypervisors, Launches Cloud Archive Tier to Replace Tape
Veeam wants IT leaders to bet on one platform instead of five. Data Platform v13.1 adds six hypervisors, native protection that finally unites healthcare and non-x86 workload customers under Epic and Db2/Oracle, and a new archive tier built to replace tape. The real question is: Does putting recovery, security, and archiving under one vendor close the fragmented-visibility and standards-drift risk of running five separate tools, or does it just trade that for one giant backup target that’s easier for an attacker, or an admin, to break?
IT Infrastructure
Esri’s Customers Prove CIOs Are Getting Half the Story Without GIS
Esri’s user conference showed GIS connecting street sweepers, Italian railways, and barley farms to enterprise data. CIOs who leave GIS out of their AI and data strategy are working from half the picture.
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