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Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of June 1, 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.
Cisco Makes Its Bid to Run the Agentic Enterprise at Cisco Live US 2026
Cisco Live wrapped up in Las Vegas on June 4, and the theme was pretty consistent across announcements and sessions. Cisco wants to be the layer the agentic enterprise runs on, not a vendor of boxes that carry agent traffic.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 25, 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.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 18, 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.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 11, 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.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 4, 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.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of April 27, 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.
AWS Doubles Down on Agentic AI in “What’s Next” Event
At its “What's Next With AWS” livestream event on April 28, 2026, AWS made three significant announcements that solidify its intent to expand from its foundation as an AI infrastructure provider to a full stack provider, including an AI application and agent platform.
Google Cloud Next 2026: It's All About the Agents
Google Cloud Next ‘26 in Las Vegas wrapped recently, and the theme was familiar. If 2025 was the year of experimenting with agentic AI, 2026 will be the year of running it at scale.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of April 20, 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.
NVIDIA's GTC 2026: A Platform Bid Disguised as a Hardware Launch
At GTC 2026, NVIDIA founder and chief executive Jensen Huang argued that companies are no longer buying compute. They are building token factories.
IBM’s Smartest AI Infrastructure Move Since Red Hat
IBM's approximately $11-billion acquisition of Confluent is less about Apache Kafka itself and more about owning the enterprise-grade, real-time data layer that supports modern analytics and AI workloads. For organizations already running IBM platforms, this has meaningful architectural and commercial implications. For cloud-native organizations, the practical impact is narrower than the announcement suggests.
BigPanda Advances Toward Agentic IT Operations With Expanded AI-Driven Detection, Incident Response, and Change Risk Capabilities
BigPanda is expanding its AIOps platform toward a more agent-enabled operating model that will handle detection, incident coordination, and change risk management. BigPanda is positioning its technology around an IT knowledge graph that can encompass both structured telemetry and unstructured operational data. The recent Velocity acquisition has helped BigPanda accelerate agent-oriented capabilities particularly in event detection and response.
ManageEngine Is Quietly Rebuilding the Enterprise IT Control Plane
Rajesh Ganeshan didn’t walk on stage at the recent ZohoDay (February 2026) to announce a new product or declare a category shift. He spent the time doing something more unusual in enterprise software: explaining why ManageEngine exists the way it does, and why that history suddenly matters again.
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.
Nvidia Sets the Pace for Enterprise AI With New Infrastructure, Open Models, and Developer Innovations
In his CES keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that we are entering “a new industrial revolution where AI will reshape every industry,” underscoring the scale and pace of transformation Nvidia is enabling. Their Rubin platform, the Alpamayo family of open‑source models, and ongoing advancements in AI factories, inference, and physical AI reinforce Nvidia’s role as the central accelerator of enterprise AI.
Device-First Continuum AI: The Technology Behind mimik's Approach
mimik is the first company we've encountered that discusses how to operationalize billions of agents to perform tasks in the physical world, not only within software workflows but also in industrial processes. The company’s core thesis is that the existing cloud-first mobile internet infrastructure is a legacy bottleneck that is unsustainable for the computational, cost, and energy demands of agentic AI. Powered by mimik, DFC-AI seeks to fundamentally reorganize compute distribution by prioritizing the edge.
The Death of Moore's Law and the Birth of the AI Factory at Nvidia’s 2025 GTC Conference
As organizations look to expand their AI capabilities, platform providers will likely present options as more companies like AMD and Broadcom develop competitive chips.
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.
Platform9: Enterprise-Ready Private Cloud Platform for VMware Replacement and Beyond
Platform9 provides a compelling alternative for private cloud users looking to migrate away from the VMware platform.
Pioneering Network Automation and Infrastructure Integrity: A Technical Overview of BackBox
BackBox represents the next generation in network automation, establishing itself as a network infrastructure integrity platform. Its robust IntelliChecks capabilities and event-driven architecture set it apart, offering a comprehensive solution for automated network management that ranges from backup and recovery to vulnerability management and compliance checks.