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The 2026 Turning Point: Key C-Suite Takeaways From the Cisco AI Summit
The Cisco AI Summit (Feb. 2026) addressed the accelerating maturity of AI adoption inside enterprises. Leaders across infrastructure, security, design, systems, and geopolitics emphasized that organizations are now moving from exploratory experimentation to a period requiring architectural reinvention, measurable outcomes, and new forms of workforce enablement.
Can OfficeSpace Break Real Estate’s Resistance to Modernization?
OfficeSpace Software is repositioning itself as an AI operating system for the built world, backed not by generic LLM wrappers but by domain‑specific models through their acquisition of Dojo. These models automate high‑value workflows such as restacks, occupancy forecasting, adjacency optimization, and asset planning – the tasks that currently live in spreadsheets and company knowledge. The claim is ambitious, but the underlying technical foundation is materially stronger than what most workplace vendors are offering. The real story is whether this can break through a category long resistant to modernization.
ServiceNow Q4 Results Reinforce Enterprise AI Driving Business Impact
ServiceNow exceeds guidance as enterprise AI adoption accelerates growth, margin, and cash flow. Now Assist ACV tops $600M and heads toward a $1B run rate while customers commit at scale.
Datamotive’s Strategy to Address Cloud Lock-In and Disaster Recovery Costs
Datamotive is a workload mobility and disaster recovery platform designed to help enterprises move virtual machines, applications, and their associated data across clouds and on‑prem environments without extensive refactoring. The platform currently supports environments such as AWS, Azure, Nutanix, and VMware. The company stated that its approach allows migration between heterogeneous cloud and hypervisor platforms by replicating full virtual instances at the block level, aiming to reduce the need for format conversions.
CLDigital Adds AI to Simplify GRC & BCM Tasks
CLDigital’s Business Continuity Management (BCM) software – CLDigital 360 (also known as CL360) – is among the leaders in this market (see our BCM Software Reviews category). Their BCM solution is part of their overall GRC suite built on a low-code/no-code platform which simplifies customization, and they have added AI functionality to further streamline BCM and GRC work.
Sense, Decide, Act, Govern: ServiceNow’s Four‑Pillar Blueprint for Enterprise AI
ServiceNow is redefining enterprise workflows with Work AI, Raptor DB, and autonomous deployment – streamlining IT, CRM, and onboarding to deliver measurable ROI, unified governance, and faster time-to-value across the entire organization.
Any Model, Any Hardware, Any Cloud: Red Hat & Cisco’s Vision for Open, Flexible AI
During a recent briefing (October 2025) Red Hat and Cisco introduced a jointly developed, enterprise-grade AI platform that enables organizations to run generative and agentic AI securely across hybrid environments – on-prem, cloud, and edge – using open-source models and hardware-agnostic infrastructure.
Insights From HPE’s 2025 Securities Analyst Meeting
When vendors address investors through securities analyst meetings, they generally provide market insights and pragmatic guidance on their place in the market. HPE’s annual securities analyst meeting on October 15, 2025, was no exception as it addressed the securities market for the first time since closing the Juniper Networks acquisition in July 2025.
Zoho and NVIDIA Join Forces to Enhance AI With Tailored, Efficient Models
Zoho Corporation has announced a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to leverage the NVIDIA AI accelerated computing platform, including NVIDIA NeMo, for the development and deployment of advanced AI models within Zoho's SaaS applications. This collaboration aims to enhance AI capabilities for Zoho's extensive customer base of over 700,000 businesses worldwide.
Revolutionizing IT Crisis Management: Insights From eProc Solutions Founder Oren Rosen at Info-Tech LIVE
In a session titled “Resolving IT Crises Instantly – Transforming IT Efficiency and Business Continuity” Oren Rosen of eProc Solutions shared insights on resolving IT crises instantly at Info-Tech LIVE 2024.
A Deep Dive Into Eracent: SBOM Management, Vulnerability Analysis, and Beyond
Eracent is a privately held IT asset management (ITAM), software asset management (SAM) and cybersecurity solution provider founded in 2000. Their roots trace back to AT&T, Bell Labs, and Lucent’s pre-Y2K initiatives (around 1997-2000), where a core focus was placed on IT asset discovery and protection. Eracent emphasizes their experience with extensive asset discovery during a period with significantly different internet and network connectivity compared to today and have consistently focused on ITAM and SAM solutions throughout their existence. This note features Eracent’s extension into open-source software risk mitigation though software bill of materials (SBOM) management.
Devolutions Vs. the Goliaths: How Affordability & Ease of Use Challenge the PAM Status Quo
In this tech note I take a closer look at Devolutions, a partial stack Privileged Access Management (PAM) vendor, exploring its history, market positioning, core features, and differentiating factors. Through insights gleaned from a vendor briefing and demo, I explore Devolutions’ evolution, target audience, and its strategic approach to the PAM landscape.
Revolutionizing Data-Driven Decisions: The Cisco-Splunk Acquisition and Its Impact on CIOs and CTOs
Cisco consolidated its position as one of the largest software companies globally by completing the acquisition of Splunk.
Zscaler: Redefining Security in the Zero Trust Era
This analysis examines Zscaler's cloud-based security platform, with a focus on its Zero Trust Exchange (ZTE), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and broader suite of security solutions. It explores Zscaler's approach to overcoming the limitations of traditional VPN architectures, using artificial intelligence (AI) for threat detection, and integrating various security functionalities within a unified platform. Drawing insights from analyst demo notes, vendor information, and independent research, this analysis aims to provide a comprehensive and unbiased assessment of Zscaler's value proposition for security professionals.
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Morpheus Leads the Shift from Cloud Management Platform to Hybrid Cloud Application Orchestration with Its 5.0 Release
The Morpheus cloud management platform (CMP) has moved beyond its original focus on DevOps automation and self-service. Morpheus provides a management control plane to enable users to deploy workloads anywhere. Such a control plane is the way of the future for managing complex enterprise technology stacks.
IBM Raises Price on Software Support; Shoves Customers Toward the Cloud
IBM is changing the terms of its ubiquitous Passport Advantage agreement to remove entitled discounts on over 5,000 on-premises software products, resulting in an immediate price increase for IBM Software & Support (S&S) across its vast customer landscape.
Noncompliance in O365 or M365 With Microsoft Is as Easy as Counting From One to Three
With lots of functionality being provisioned/deployed at the tenant level, Microsoft is happy to sit back for now, watch, and start auditing in the future.
ServiceNow’s Orlando Release Focuses on AI With Now Intelligence
ServiceNow’s Orlando release introduced Now Intelligence, a set of features that strengthen ServiceNow’s lead in the AI-powered IT service management (ITSM) and digital transformation space.
VMware Has Issued a Patch for 10.0 CVSS Vulnerability on vCenter – Patch Now!
VMware has issued the highest Common Vulnerability Scoring System 3 (CVSSv3) rating, 10.0, on a vulnerability (CVE-2020-3952) found on its VMware vCenter Server version 6.7 software. VMware now has a patch to address this vulnerability, and administrators are urged to install the patch as soon as possible.
COVID-19: Take These Four Steps Now to Weather the Storm
The reality of our new world is finally sinking in, with COVID-19 sprawling across the globe. The actions you take now will determine how well organizations will weather this economic shutdown.