http://www.currentanalysis.com/ Analysis Reports provided by Current Analysis, Inc. en-us All materials Copyright 1997-2026 Current Analysis, Inc. Reproduction or distribution prohibited without express written consent. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:08:14 GMT http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=122930&rss Leading low-code providers are demonstrating the importance of the UX to support the emerging agentic AI and agentic orchestration spaces to address a new era. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-07-23T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94593&rss Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has led to a strategy of focusing investment on VMware Cloud Foundation, which offers stronger support for private AI inference, agentic applications, AMD/Intel/NVIDIA infrastructure, and Kubernetes operations. Beatriz Valle 2026-07-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95846&rss Dell recently increased its data center revenue forecasts for FY Q2 2027 after impressive sales results driven by strong traction for its Dell AI Factory servers and other optimized solutions as the company confidently rides the agentic AI wave. Beatriz Valle 2026-07-17T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133163&rss Lumen is integrating its advanced MDR solution with Palo Alto’s Cortex XSIAM SOC platform. The partnership will add insights from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs threat intelligence arm to unify threat data on one console, reducing tool sprawl. Amy Larsen DeCarlo 2026-07-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133154&rss Google Cloud has offered more examples of customers putting agentic AI into production and achieving better business outcomes. As data is a key asset for AI development, sovereignty and cyber protection become even more crucial for enterprises. Siow Meng Soh 2026-07-13T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133146&rss Forget Subsea Cables. Australia’s biggest infrastructure race is shifting to terrestrial fiber with Vocus and Telstra racing to build Australia’s digital backbone. Brendan Swan 2026-07-10T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133145&rss Tata Communications is accelerating into pole position in an underserved India–Singapore connectivity market, building capacity ahead of rivals to capture rising AI-driven demand. Brendan Swan 2026-07-10T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133134&rss The industry is turning its attention from the building and deployment of AI agents to the management of AI’s latest crisis: agent sprawl. The industry may be moving towards a yet undefined centralized control plane approach. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-07-08T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=111088&rss AWS is investing heavily to meet demand for agentic AI tools. It is bringing to market agents that improve the way employees work, enhance security, and help with app modernization. It is also developing tools that assist with agent creation. Rena Bhattacharyya 2026-07-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=124187&rss AWS has pivoted toward agentic AI, with brands such as Kiro and Quick helping enterprises build/deploy production AI agents. New frontier models on Bedrock signal a platform-neutral model strategy designed to capture a wide range of AI workloads. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-06-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133105&rss Skyrocketing cloud expenses associated with production-stage AI applications have enterprises scrambling and providers under pressure. For many organizations, the interim answer is seeking out multiple providers to beat lock-in. Amy Larsen DeCarlo - Charlotte Dunlap 2026-06-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=128932&rss Zoom has become a major player in the cloud-based collaboration and contact center space and continues to evolve. However, rivals such as Microsoft, Cisco, and Google are innovating as well, and their platforms pose stiff competition to Zoom's. Gregg Willsky 2026-06-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133095&rss Recent weeks have seen shortened cycles of new AI model rollouts among key players, jockeying for developer loyalty. Latest activities include the release of new agentic-injected IDEs and advanced AI models that take on popular Claude offerings. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-06-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133093&rss The industry witnessed significant leaps in the agentic AI/model space this quarter as players vie to make their mark in the enterprise, and a US government interventionist approach to AI is heating up following the Anthropic Mythos upheaval. Beatriz Valle - Charlotte Dunlap 2026-06-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=111059&rss Google’s continued investment in new frontier models and agentic AI platforms and tools is driving impressive growth, while its collaboration with partners to expand ecosystems and standards positions it as a thought leader in the market. Rena Bhattacharyya 2026-06-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133089&rss The Google Cloud UK Summit was held in June 2026, at Tobacco Docks, in London (England), announcing the UK availability of Gemini 3.5 Flash, through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and the Gemini Enterprise app, and showcasing partnerships. Beatriz Valle 2026-06-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=123700&rss Under its Agentic Enterprise vision, Google released new LLM models, a new agentic platform, and emphasis on enterprise-grade security and scale. These were shored up by third-party platform integrations and professional services partnerships. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-06-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94514&rss Oracle continues enhancing its OCI portfolio in support of agentic-based Fusion applications. Latest efforts involve unified GenAI/agentic AI tools, bringing AI to each layer of the cloud stack, and greater marketplace access to partner templates. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-06-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133061&rss Coming after a major deal with the hotel chain Accor’s loyalty program, this new channel partnership with Trip.com could help Orange Travel gain access to one of the fastest growing sectors in the industry – Chinese tourists heading for Europe. Emma Mohr-McClune 2026-06-19T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133017&rss At Cisco Live US 2026, Cisco’s holistic approach to AI with respect to collaboration was on bold display. AI permeates each product and every layer of the Webex platform. Cisco’s ownership of the components making its products a reality is unique. Gregg Willsky 2026-06-10T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133018&rss Deutsche Telekom is enlisting Palo Alto Networks to provide the security platform for its sovereign cloud solution. Beyond providing data residency mechanisms, DT will also handle all elements of telemetry data, encryption keys, and audit logs. Amy Larsen DeCarlo 2026-06-10T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133014&rss Zoom unveiled ZoomMate and AI Productivity Suite, which leverage AI to convert siloed content into finished deliverables, enabling users to move work forward with less effort. The features support Zoom’s vision for creating a ‘system of action.’ Gregg Willsky 2026-06-10T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133010&rss Your data called… It wants quantum safe protection before tomorrow’s computers start decoding today's secrets… The next big thing might not be speed or coverage; it could be who secures data first. Brendan Swan 2026-06-09T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=105744&rss Enterprise IoT saw further signs of consolidation with IoT units being sold and bought and product rosters being consolidated or outright reduced. Some IoT vendors are enhancing their IoT profile while others have put it on the back burner. Ismail Patel 2026-06-08T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133003&rss IBM and Google Cloud are jointly addressing the need to accelerate AI application development and deployment. The pair anticipate the partnership, which will rely on thousands of IBM consultants, to deliver multi-billion dollar returns. Amy Larsen DeCarlo 2026-06-05T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132986&rss Boomi is making headway in the highly competitive application integration space by emphasizing the relevancy of low-cost AI model alternatives as part of its latest agentic AI initiatives. Charlotte Dunlap - Siow Meng Soh 2026-06-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132980&rss Cisco CX’s annual analyst event took place in Paris in May 2026. The Cisco CX division has embarked upon the task of imbuing AI natively into services to help customers manage their environments building services under the Cisco IQ brand. Beatriz Valle 2026-05-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132975&rss FinOps is seeing a giant shift in 2026 from managing AI costs to implementing full adoption of AI into the FinOps practice to be more productive. In this blog, GlobalData anticipates key themes during the upcoming FinOps X conference. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-05-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132979&rss Remote desktops have always been touted as the solution for corporate desktop support and cybersecurity ills, but the concept has never taken off outside of niche use cases. Steve Schuchart 2026-05-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132972&rss BT Group reports 2026 full year financial results, with BT International Business slumping sharply during the second half of the year, raising further questions over when the company’s long-promised turnaround will begin to materially take shape. Brendan Swan - Gary Barton 2026-05-28T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132966&rss Generative AI has introduced a lot of dynamism but also upheaval in the data center market. As a result, infrastructure providers are enhancing their portfolios through innovation, partnerships and acquisitions to keep up with the changes. Beatriz Valle 2026-05-27T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132964&rss AWS has expanded its Amazon Connect to four agentic AI solutions. This helps to drive adoption of AI and also highlights its strategy to expand its business beyond infrastructure and platforms – leveraging AI to simplify workflows. Siow Meng Soh - Alfie Amir 2026-05-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94675&rss SAP is throwing its weight behind agentic AI investments and solutions, consolidating all its major platforms to better support enterprises’ mission-critical workflows. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-05-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132944&rss Zoom unveiled a suite of capabilities designed to convert siloed content into actionable outcomes, though the new features deliver mixed success in advancing the company’s broader objectives. Gregg Willsky 2026-05-20T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94580&rss Microsoft is turning its analytics platform into an AI-driven portfolio built on Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Copilot, and agentic AI, enabling business users to interact with their enterprise data in a dynamic way. Beatriz Valle 2026-05-11T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132900&rss Palo Alto Networks’ planned acquisition of Portkey is another part of its fast-moving plan to become a top player in the AI/agentic security space for enterprises. Steve Schuchart 2026-05-05T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=127693&rss Telcos are no longer simply defending their position in connectivity with private 4G and 5G. Maturing solutions with strengthened portfolios have the potential to generate substantial revenue and increased enterprise credibility. John Marcus - Ismail Patel 2026-05-05T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131624&rss 8x8 continues to undergo a fundamental transformation into a customer experience organization. It is making the pivot while facing entrenched competitors who enjoy deep resources, great brand equity, and large customer bases. Gregg Willsky 2026-05-04T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132880&rss April has been a particularly chaotic month for enterprise and independent developers facing significant price hikes and license restructuring around leading AI agent tools. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-04-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=119659&rss IEIT Systems has leveraged its experience in server manufacturing and generative AI to develop a full-stack infrastructure solution optimized for AI tasks, including training, inferencing, and database integration. Beatriz Valle 2026-04-27T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132856&rss Google overhauled its infrastructure portfolio including its eighth generation (tensor processor units (TPUs), with two distinct, purpose-built architectures for training and inference, TPU 8t and TPU 8i, which will power Google’s supercomputers. Beatriz Valle 2026-04-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94582&rss Oracle is repositioning itself for the agentic AI era. It has launched autonomous features within the Fusion suite of software solutions and Oracle AI Database 26ai to leverage the disruption created by agentic AI in the SaaS market. Beatriz Valle 2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=128996&rss BT Group has established BT International as a standalone unit with its own profit and loss accountability, while simultaneously strengthening its partner ecosystem to drive growth through its digital platforms. Brendan Swan 2026-04-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132821&rss RingCentral has recently expanded its partnerships with Cox Business and Spectrum Business by supplying contact center capabilities for their portfolios. The partnerships provide each party with opportunity to capitalize on multiple market trends. Gregg Willsky 2026-04-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132809&rss Nokia’s Hannover Messe updates sharpen its private wireless pitch but also raise the bar on simplicity. Rivals will still attack on complexity while Nokia tries to establish “industrial-grade, but easier-to-deploy” credibility. John Marcus 2026-04-17T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132811&rss Salesforce’s updated Agent Fabric promises enterprises reassurance through unified oversight and orchestration of sprawling agentic AIs. Charlotte Dunlap - Beatriz Valle 2026-04-17T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94609&rss IBM's ongoing agentic AI activities include enhancements to Cloud Pak for Integration, infrastructure automation/observability via Instana, and code companions to transform legacy coding. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-04-13T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94513&rss Microsoft Azure's primary focus continues to focus on its GenAI initiative, Microsoft Foundry, most recently complemented by new Copilot Agents and access to Anthropic Claude in addition to OpenAI GPT. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-04-13T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94606&rss Red Hat OpenShift, serving as the core of IBM's hybrid cloud and GenAI initiatives via Red Hat OpenShift AI, continues its focus on deep AI integration. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-04-13T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132755&rss Tata Communications launches IZO Data Centre Dynamic Connectivity, a software-defined platform with self-healing network technology as it looks to reshape data center connectivity for enterprises worldwide. Brendan Swan 2026-04-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94591&rss Cisco has been busy over the last year in the data center, concentrating on enabling AI for enterprise customers, as well as advancing its hardware through with new chips and faster switches enabled by strong R&D. Steve Schuchart 2026-03-31T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132735&rss ElevenLabs and IBM are planning to integrate ElevenLabs’s text-to-speech and speech-to-text solutions with IBM watsonx Orchestrate agentic AI platform. There are promising aspects to the partnership but also major concerns. Amy Larsen DeCarlo 2026-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=103695&rss Despite pressure from falling usage among enterprises, IP voice is seen as a core product by most providers with the contact center market offering the biggest opportunity for growth. Gary Barton 2026-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94695&rss Mitel has launched its latest chapter featuring a new go-to-market approach, restructured finances, and fresh leadership at the helm. The challenge will be maintaining the momentum generated under former CEO Tarun Loomba since the acquisition of Unify. Gregg Willsky 2026-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132706&rss Over the past two months, 8x8 has reinforced its customer experience (CX) portfolio with fresh rounds of features. While the features align with market trends, their presentation risks causing customer confusion. Gregg Willsky 2026-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94746&rss IBM saw the mainframe business enjoy its highest YoY growth in 20 years in its latest financial results. Efforts to modernize IBM Z by leveraging hybrid cloud architectures and using Watsonx Code Assistant for COBOL applications are bearing fruit. Beatriz Valle 2026-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132703&rss As traditional WAN models are pushed to their limits, enterprises must consider whether Ethernet alone can meet its evolving business needs or should wavelength have a greater role in their mission-critical connectivity strategy. Brendan Swan - Gary Barton 2026-03-23T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132683&rss As in the past, AI dominated the airwaves at Enterprise Connect. However, in 2026, the reach and influence of AI within organizations was the hottest topic. The biggest challenge for competitors will be navigating the pitfalls of this environment. Gregg Willsky 2026-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132681&rss Orange Wholesale partners with ng-voice to launch IMS-as-a-service, a cloud voice solution without the telecom headache. Though are telecom operators ready to ditch their beloved legacy mess, or will they keep running voice on telecom fossils. Brendan Swan 2026-03-17T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132667&rss Mobile World Congress exposed the importance of telco/technology partnerships to address critical enterprise concerns around app and infrastructure modernization complexities, sovereign cloud/AI, and how agentic AI streamlines new processes. Rena Bhattacharyya - Charlotte Dunlap 2026-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132640&rss AMD and Meta have signed an agreement to align their GPU and CPU silicon, systems, and software roadmaps with Helios rack clusters running on ROCm software. Beatriz Valle 2026-03-04T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132632&rss Cloud players leverage agentic AI in aggressive moves to upend arch-rivals’ deeply entrenched revenue sources. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-03-03T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132634&rss • Telcos are elbowing their way into the cloud and AI space by filling technology gaps that platform providers have neglected. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-03-03T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132628&rss GlobalData provides a comprehensive view of the quarter’s key GenAI news including the announcements that Google is making a grab for Amazon’s e-commerce dominance and Anthropic’s Claude Code could modernize legacy programming language COBOL. Charlotte Dunlap - Beatriz Valle 2026-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94579&rss To boost its hybrid cloud strategy, IBM acquired Confluent, whose real-time data capabilities and Kora engine provide a unified, cloud-native data plane driven by Apache Kafka across AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. Beatriz Valle 2026-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132596&rss AI is fueling corporate investments in privacy initiatives. Ninety percent (90%) of the IT and security professionals surveyed by Cisco report that they have extended their privacy programs because of AI. Amy Larsen DeCarlo 2026-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=118841&rss CPaaS vendors are embracing AI to drive the usage of their platform and create new opportunities around enhancing CX and are seeing improved financial performance. Siow Meng Soh 2026-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132597&rss Agentic AI demonstrates strong momentum; growing to $45.3 billion in 2029. As the market matures, standards evolve, and tools that support greater observability become easily accessible, enterprises will move from single to multiagent systems. Rena Bhattacharyya 2026-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132583&rss With bandwidth and diversified connectivity surging, Ooredoo is carving out its fiber and subsea assets to fast track its ambition to become the Middle East’s leading regional connectivity powerhouse – but will this bold move secure that position? Brendan Swan 2026-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132581&rss Telstra reported H1 FY2026 results with strong profit growth, but its enterprise fixed business still remains under pressure amid another round of workforce reductions across its enterprise and consumer segments. Brendan Swan 2026-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94681&rss ALE's sizable partner network coupled with a global market presence are ALE's greatest hallmarks. However, the pace of innovation when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) must be strengthened to compete successfully. Gregg Willsky 2026-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132572&rss Vodafone is turning microwave backhaul into rainfall intelligence and mast sites into sensor hubs. Its data will be compelling for public sector resilience needs – but only if Vodafone productizes data accuracy, SLAs, and integrations. John Marcus 2026-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132564&rss At Cisco LIVE EMEA 2026, the company has announced its new Cisco Silicon One G300, a 102.4 Tbps switching chip, switches, liquid cooling, and enhancements for AI and hyperscaler deployments to serve the current AI boom. Steve Schuchart 2026-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132555&rss UiPath is stepping up its agentic AI automation investment for customers in the financial services sector, acquiring a key RPA rival for its financial crime compliance solution to enhance UiPath’s productized solution accelerators. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132551&rss Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, the latest iteration in the Claude family, with a one-million-context window. This new version improves coding over Opus 4.5, with longer agentic tasks, larger codebases, and improved review and debugging. Beatriz Valle 2026-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132541&rss Telefónica’s rail pilot with OEM partner CAF is a strong proof point that edge and 5G can deliver real industrial outcomes. The challenge now for its edge compute footprint is advancing to repeatable, scalable deployments and more use cases. John Marcus 2026-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132532&rss 2026 will be the year that satellite connectivity breaks out from niche to mainstream, the intensifying of this new space race, and telcos ramping up satellite connectivity to serve SMBs and enterprises that can benefit from satellite use cases. Ismail Patel 2026-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132527&rss The observability market is hot. In 2026, the market will continue to grow with disruption in AI developer tools by startups, accelerating market consolidation, and more penetration into IT operations. Charlotte Dunlap - Steve Schuchart 2026-01-30T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=130404&rss GlobalData provides assessments of eight large language models (LLMs), naming Google Gemini the leader. Competitors include OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, IBM, AWS, Meta, and others. Beatriz Valle - Charlotte Dunlap 2026-01-30T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=123524&rss Lenovo unveiled new servers including the ThinkSystem SR675i, ThinkSystem SR650i and ThinkEdge SE455i with Neptune air and liquid cooling capabilities to enable inferencing in various settings and at the edge. Beatriz Valle 2026-01-29T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132524&rss Observability predictions for 2026 include disruptive dev-tools start-ups adding observability features to solutions, and AI-injected app deployment platforms targeting ops teams. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-01-29T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132518&rss 2026 will be the year of “efficiency”. Small language models (SLMs) will gain relevance as enterprises leverage AI for domain- and industry-specific use cases. Running SLMs locally helps address privacy, data security, and compliance concerns. Beatriz Valle - Rena Bhattacharyya 2026-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94680&rss Avaya continues rebuilding under CEO Patrick Dennis, who took over in the wake of a transformation completed by his predecessor Alan Masarek. The challenge will be convincing the market that the company is sailing on smooth waters. Gregg Willsky 2026-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132486&rss Agentic AI will underpin new trends in 2026 taking vibe coding and intelligent automation/RPA to new levels for streamlining agile automation. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132472&rss Investment in new data centers will continue to accelerate in 2026, with hyperscalers pouring money into new projects. Server densities will soar to support AI workloads, making new designs and energy management a top concern. Beatriz Valle 2026-01-07T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132459&rss Agentic AI will propel intelligent automation in numerous ways across global enterprise IT systems in 2026. Charlotte Dunlap - Amy Larsen DeCarlo 2025-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132446&rss ServiceNow is buying Israel-based vendor Armis in a bid to expand its IT/OT security portfolio. The aim is to create a unified platform to govern and manage AI across the enterprise, and to protect the enterprise from AI-driven attacks. Amy Larsen DeCarlo - Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=129594&rss RingCentral continues to invest and expand its cloud-based communications portfolio, expanding its AI capabilities while building and deepening new strategic partnerships to strengthen its platform and market position. Gregg Willsky - Brendan Swan 2025-12-22T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132436&rss FOMO, high-grade hype, and fantastical claims are causing enterprises to make quick and often ill-conceived decisions around implementing AI in the business and in IT. Everybody needs to slow down and get back to basics. Steve Schuchart 2025-12-22T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=102021&rss Cisco's Webex mission is to elevate hybrid work and enhance customer experience. It continues to expand and strengthen its AI capabilities across the portfolio as competition from Microsoft, Google, and Zoom intensifies. Gregg Willsky - Brendan Swan 2025-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=102017&rss Microsoft 365 serves as the company’s flagship hybrid work suite, with Teams at its core. The company continues to expand its AI capabilities with a concentration on AI-driven agents, enhancing collaboration and productivity. Gregg Willsky - Brendan Swan 2025-12-17T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132400&rss The AI revolution has introduced a lot of dynamism but also upheaval in the data center market. As a result, infrastructure providers are enhancing their portfolios through innovation, partnerships, and acquisitions to keep up with the changes. Beatriz Valle 2025-12-15T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132395&rss Themes from fall technology conferences included agentic AI integrations and ecosystem partnerships/acquisitions to fill tech gaps. Of greatest interest to enterprise developers were new OSS innovation reveals. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132385&rss The industry’s adoption of agentic AI for streamlining the application lifecycle will be largely realized through OSS innovations, while platform vendors jockey for key partnerships to fill tech gaps. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-10T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=102466&rss Enterprises continue to operate in hybrid work mode, galvanizing demand for collaboration solutions and further entrenching the importance of cloud delivery. Vendors have made cloud-based collaboration a centerpiece of their value proposition. Gregg Willsky 2025-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=127347&rss Zoom has blossomed into a holistic cloud-based collaboration player and continues to evolve. However, rivals such as Microsoft, Cisco, and Google are innovating as well, and their platforms pose stiff competition to Zoom's. Gregg Willsky 2025-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132327&rss GlobalData provides a comprehensive view of the quarter’s key GenAI news including new offerings by Atos (in partnership with Red Hat), Automation Anywhere, Google, Oracle, and Thinking Machines Lab. Beatriz Valle - Charlotte Dunlap 2025-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132326&rss Palo Alto Networks has made another aggressive M&A move with its planned acquisition of observability startup Chronosphere, expanding its reach into the enterprise. Steve Schuchart - Amy Larsen DeCarlo 2025-11-21T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132299&rss Mplify’s Carrier Ethernet for AI certification announcement comes as AI hype turns to real investment and implementation. The goal is to replicate the success of its carrier Ethernet certification model – heading off potential connectivity chaos. Glen Hunt 2025-11-17T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95777&rss Red Hat recently announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) to Dell's PowerEdge servers to help organizations develop, test, and deploy generative AI (GenAI) models. Beatriz Valle 2025-11-17T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94684&rss Google is well-positioned for the burgeoning hybrid work environment and the emergence of agentic AI. However, rivals continue to innovate. The company needs to sustain the high level of enhancement it has brought to the platform. Gregg Willsky 2025-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94749&rss Huawei launched Xinghe AI Fabric 2.0., unveiled its Kunpeng roadmap, and updated its backup and disaster recovery solutions portfolio. Going forward, the company plans to focus R&D investment on power supply, thermal management, and infrastructure. Beatriz Valle 2025-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132263&rss RingCentral revealed a motherlode of capabilities for its platform that canvas team collaboration, contact center, and sales support. While they enrich RingCentral’s portfolio, they are largely reflected by the likes of Cisco, Zoom, and 8x8. Gregg Willsky 2025-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=102438&rss SASE and SD-WAN are both important to enterprises today, and GlobalData looks at top companies in those spaces with this new report. Steve Schuchart 2025-11-03T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132241&rss Telstra is focusing on the core connectivity business while looking for partners to create new pathways for its technology services business. This allows Telstra to focus on what it does best and build partnerships for market expansion. Siow Meng Soh 2025-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95847&rss Nutanix underwent an important transformation during the last year, such as embracing external storage bringing to market its containers offering and announcing the forthcoming availability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Google Cloud. Beatriz Valle 2025-10-27T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132222&rss Dreamforce 2025 was all about creating the agentic enterprise, with announcements of new tools, discussions of best practices and lessons learned, and examples of real-world use cases. Rena Bhattacharyya 2025-10-23T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=123059&rss Google is well-positioned for the burgeoning hybrid work environment and the emergence of agentic AI. However, rivals continue to innovate. The company needs to sustain the high level of enhancement it has brought to the platform. Gregg Willsky 2025-10-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132211&rss Agentic AI-injected services across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are helping shift the company’s messaging to one of outcomes versus products, while Oracle readies the release of a new automation/low-code tool, APEXLang. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-10-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132193&rss Telstra is focusing on the core connectivity business while looking for partners to create new pathways for its technology services business. This allows Telstra to focus on what it does best and build partnerships for market expansion. Dustin Kehoe - Siow Meng Soh 2025-10-16T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132168&rss At WebexOne 2025, Cisco detailed it AI vision and associated enhancements to the Webex platform. But in a twist from past year’s events, that vision was more front and center with the enhancements cast in a supporting role. Gregg Willsky 2025-10-08T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=105252&rss Extreme has a solid vision for end-to-end networking, including cloud and AI. Extreme is one of the smaller enterprise networking players and has leveraged multiple acquisitions of competitors and technology over the years into a modern networking portfolio. Steve Schuchart 2025-10-07T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132163&rss Automation and platform integrations are underway to fulfill business outcomes, including operationalizing agentic AI. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-10-07T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132143&rss The enterprise AI market is complex, covering everything from legacy activities and connectivity to added-value apps and new offerings. Telcos, at different stages on their journeys, cannot avoid AI’s impact and must articulate their strategies. Robert Pritchard - Rena Bhattacharyya 2025-10-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132148&rss Money and time spent on cybersecurity, businesses continuity, and disaster recovery isn’t wasted, and the risk to the business is too great to resort to do more with less tactics. Steve Schuchart 2025-10-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132142&rss Liquid cooling is evolving from experimental to wider use, moving into the colocation space and enterprise workloads. However, the bifurcation between AI workloads requiring liquid cooling and traditional workloads with air cooling remains. Beatriz Valle 2025-09-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132140&rss Security provider SailPoint is adding new capabilities to its cloud identity management. The enhancements address the evolving enterprise with features for managing access for a range of identities including AI agents and non-employees. Amy Larsen DeCarlo 2025-09-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132133&rss Recent research conducted by MSSP LevelBlue reveals a disconnect between the escalating threat to manufacturing from bad actors and the sector’s readiness to defend its assets. Less than one-third said they are prepared for AI-driven attacks. Amy Larsen DeCarlo 2025-09-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132134&rss Post-quantum cryptography needs to be implemented by all organizations, but it doesn’t have to be a nightmare project with proper understanding of the risks, resources needed, and a comprehensive corporate rollout plan over the next ten years. Steve Schuchart 2025-09-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132117&rss Automation leaders will disrupt the emerging agentic AI platform competitive landscape through newly integrated agents coined agentic process automation (APA), technology embedded into mature, enterprise-grade intelligent workflows. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-09-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132129&rss A Verizon survey finds that cutting-edge technology, iwill be an increasingly important part of public safety work. Contrary to their reputation as technology laggards, first responder organizations plan widespread deployment of things like AI. Amy Larsen DeCarlo 2025-09-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132123&rss Ciena’s announced acquisition of Nubis bolsters the optical vendor’s offering in the key networking DC space. However, the DC networking field is getting crowded, and some of the proposed synergies are mostly theoretical. Emir Halilovic 2025-09-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132120&rss Cisco has announced the new Cisco Sovereign Critical Infrastructure for Europe that allows for air-gapped operation of most current Cisco core product lines to address increasing data sovereignty risks. Steve Schuchart 2025-09-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132124&rss Cisco announced the prototype of a network-aware compiler for quantum computers. It is designed to bring quantum computers into a shared computing cluster and has distributed error correction. Time will tell if this approach can bear fruit. Steve Schuchart 2025-09-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=121182&rss Recent developments in the market for edge computing include new and expanded support for AI, IoT, and other data-centric technologies and applications. New compute platform feature improvements and key partnerships have also been announced. Beatriz Valle - John Marcus 2025-09-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132114&rss Zoomtopia 2025 was exceptionally watered down versus past years, spanning two hours and featuring a virtual-only format. However, in keeping with tradition, meaningful capabilities were announced that sustain the renaissance Zoom ignited in 2023. Gregg Willsky 2025-09-25T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132113&rss GlobalData provides a comprehensive view of the quarter’s key GenAI news from the perspective of vibe coding, to massive investments in 10 GW data centers, and the work of AI data center operators to web crawl content creators. Charlotte Dunlap - Beatriz Valle 2025-09-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132103&rss NVIDIA and Intel announced a collaboration to jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products that accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets. Beatriz Valle - Steve Schuchart 2025-09-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132091&rss Deutsche Telekom’s vision to be the leading digital telco has led it to earmark satellite as the next growth opportunity in connectivity. Questions around sovereignty, regulation, direct-to-device technology, and interoperability will now follow. Ismail Patel 2025-09-18T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132086&rss Deutsche Telekom’s vision to be the leading digital telco has led it to earmark satellite as the next growth opportunity in connectivity. It is leveraging T-Mobile’s expertise from the US and SpaceX’s Starlink for a distinctive European offering. Ismail Patel 2025-09-17T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=124796&rss Arista is a juggernaut in the data center switching and routing space and is progressing in security, automation, and observability. Arista's profile continues to rise with enterprises and institutions as it uses its strong R&D to enhance existing products and create new ones. Steve Schuchart 2025-09-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132081&rss Cisco Splunk leaned into agentic AI with a slew of new observability capabilities at the recent .conf25 event. Steve Schuchart 2025-09-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132062&rss Huawei has a compelling AI-empowered contact center offering and is gaining traction globally, especially in the telecom sector. It can do more to expand its channel program and raise awareness of the AICC solution. Siow Meng Soh 2025-09-09T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132054&rss The digital-first customer experience has come into vogue since the pandemic. AI and other technologies have enabled organizations to meet customers’ pent-up demand for personalized, proactive, and relationship-oriented service. Gregg Willsky 2025-09-08T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=107391&rss AI platforms continue to evolve, led by the addition of new tools and partnerships that support the deployment of agentic AI by enterprise customers. Rena Bhattacharyya 2025-09-05T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132028&rss Saudi AI firm HUMAIN launched HUMAIN Chat, which is powered by the LLM model ALLAM 34B. First launching in Saudi Arabia, the chatbot is looking to exploit the Arab-speaking Middle Eastern market. But its aspirations do not stop there. Ismail Patel 2025-08-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132030&rss August 2025 has been marked by the enforcement of a new set of rules as part of the AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive AI legislation, which is being implemented in gradual stages. Beatriz Valle 2025-08-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94536&rss Tableau Next infuses business intelligence with agentic capabilities to provide contextual insights directly within workflows. This is achieved by integrating Tableau with Agentforce, Salesforce's system for autonomous AI, or 'agentic analytics.' Beatriz Valle 2025-08-25T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131999&rss RingCentral has added features to RingCentral AI Receptionist, an AI agent that handles customer calls. Support for additional languages plus compatibility with third-party telephony systems should allow RingCentral to broaden its customer base. Gregg Willsky 2025-08-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=104709&rss RingCentral has enhanced its reputation in the cloud-based collaboration market by growing its portfolio to include cloud communications, video meetings, collaboration, contact center solutions, webinars, and events, while infusing all of them with AI. Gregg Willsky 2025-08-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=101815&rss PaaS services, which address DevOps concerns via automation, low-code, and observability are now emphasizing optimization of platforms through AI agent advancements to ease the development/deployment of modern apps. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-08-18T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131975&rss OpenAI released GPT-5 on last week on August 7, 2025, a multimodal large language model. It is the latest iteration of the market-leading chatbot, and the most important upgrade since the release of the previous generation, GPT-4, in 2023. Beatriz Valle 2025-08-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131979&rss Following a string of recent AI partnerships, NTT Data is joining forces with Google Cloud to address enterprises’ app modernization challenges with shared agentic AI frameworks, tools, and integration services. Charlotte Dunlap - Robert Pritchard 2025-08-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131971&rss In response to OpenAI’s highly anticipated release, ChatGPT-5, Anthropic had its own stunning news to report: $1 Claude AI subscriptions for the US government, giving Anthropic a major leg-up in the ongoing AI wars. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-08-14T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94527&rss Cisco's Webex mission is to support hybrid work and customer experience. While the Webex platform continues to be a premier solution for collaboration and customer engagement, Cisco faces intense competition from Microsoft, Google, and Zoom. Gregg Willsky 2025-08-14T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131952&rss Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Big Data, Cloud, Cybersecurity, DevOps, Edge Computing, Hybrid Cloud, Software Defined Networking (SDN) / Virtualization Beatriz Valle 2025-08-07T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131945&rss AT&T Business and partner RingCentral unveiled two contact center offers to accompany their Office@Hand team collaboration offer. Collectively the offers enable employees inside and outside a contact center to shape the customer experience. Gregg Willsky 2025-08-06T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131938&rss The AI revolution has introduced a lot of dynamism but also upheaval in the data center market. As a result, infrastructure providers are enhancing their portfolios through innovation, partnerships, and acquisitions to keep up with the changes. Beatriz Valle 2025-08-04T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131939&rss July 31, 2025 - Rakuten Mobile selects the Cisco, Nokia, and F5 trio for its 5G standalone mobile network, a true case for a cloud-native, multi-vendor, AI-driven network to deliver consumer and enterprises mobile services across Japan. Glen Hunt 2025-08-04T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131931&rss Palo Alto Networks has announced its planned acquisition of identity and access management vendor CyberArk to bolster its offerings, particularly in agentic AI, but the deal has risks both monetarily and relies on the fast adoption of agentic AI. Steve Schuchart 2025-08-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131915&rss Amidst a crowded cloud platform conference season, Amazon presented its AI agent initiative, honing on the success of Bedrock and tools for helping enterprises move complex apps into production. Rena Bhattacharyya - Charlotte Dunlap 2025-07-31T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131919&rss The acquisition of VeloCloud by Arista gives both VeloCloud customers and Arista a needed boost, but difficulties remain ahead in the integration and direction of the SD-WAN market toward security. Steve Schuchart 2025-07-31T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95210&rss Microsoft remains dominant in the UC&C space. Integration between Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 is formidable, but Microsoft faces contemporary and legacy challengers as hybrid work has become common. Gregg Willsky 2025-07-31T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131925&rss GlobalData provides perspective concerning the latest agentic AI news stemming from cloud platform conferences. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-07-31T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131905&rss Tibco has released a unified platform that targets growing observability requirements by providing greater visibility for solutions deployed across on-premises, cloud, or edge computing environments. Beatriz Valle 2025-07-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131908&rss US-China geopolitical tensions are highlighting a number of opportunities, challenges, and commercial considerations for buyers across the value chain inside the Middle East and Africa region, ranging from government, telcos, and AI firms. Ismail Patel 2025-07-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94535&rss SAP unveiled Business Data Cloud, an SaaS solution unifying SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Business Warehouse and connections with third-party data. Other news included alliances with Databricks, Capgemini, Mistral AI, and Palantir. Beatriz Valle 2025-07-30T00:00:00+01:00