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. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:48:59 GMT 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=124187&rss Within the DevOps space, recent innovations help illustrate AWS’s commitment to operational simplicity across both serverless and Kubernetes container orchestration paradigms via Lambda and EKS. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=111088&rss AWS is investing heavily in developing tools to support customers in the development of agentic AI as well as looking at global initiatives that appeal to organizations prioritizing local cloud endeavors. Rena Bhattacharyya 2025-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=123700&rss A flurry of new partnerships helps Google demonstrate how its PaaS and AI model interoperates with other popular platforms, e.g., AWS, Salesforce and OCI. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=111059&rss While continuing to bring updated models to market, Google Cloud is also demonstrating thought leadership through its release of new agentic AI tools and collaborative efforts to develop protocols that facilitate AI agent communication. Rena Bhattacharyya 2025-12-30T00:00:00+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=94514&rss Oracle's evolving app development innovations include high-productivity agentic AI tools, pre-configured templates, and consoles within OCI, bringing AI to each layer of the cloud stack, including database, applications, and analytics technology. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-16T00:00:00+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=128932&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 2025-12-11T00:00:00+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=94675&rss After throwing its weight behind AI and GenAI investments and solutions to infuse AI across its portfolio, SAP has taken Joule to new heights, arming its BTP developers with agentic capabilities. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-11-19T00:00:00+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=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 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=94609&rss IBM's ongoing GenAI activities include new agentic orchestration, infrastructure automation, and integration of its key observability brands in support of DevOps productivity. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-10-17T00:00:00+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=94513&rss Microsoft Azure's primary focus remains squarely on its GenAI initiative, Azure AI Foundry, which is complemented by a previewed agent framework and new features that help enterprises manage multi-agent systems. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-10-13T00:00:00+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, is gaining steam through ongoing partnerships and developer tools. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-10-13T00:00:00+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=94580&rss Microsoft continues to strengthen its unified SaaS analytics platform, Microsoft Fabric, as the centerpiece of its strategy, to help enterprises unify their data and establish links with external databases by Oracle and Google. Beatriz Valle 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 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=122930&rss Traditional low-code providers are demonstrating the importance of the UX to support the emerging AI agent space as they enhance AI assistant tools to address a new agentic era. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-07-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131902&rss For Middle East and Africa region, US-China geopolitical tensions are highlighting a number of opportunities, challenges, and commercial considerations for vendors of all geographies, and not just those in the US and China. Ismail Patel 2025-07-28T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94593&rss Broadcom's acquisition of VMware is having negative consequences for VMware customers who have been impacted by minimum licensing requirements of 72 cores per product for new licenses and renewals, as well as other changes in pricing and support. Beatriz Valle 2025-07-25T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131891&rss For the Middle East and Africa region, US-China geopolitical tensions are highlighting a number of opportunities, challenges, and commercial considerations for vendors of all geographies, and not just those in the US and China. Ismail Patel 2025-07-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131893&rss Developments in Q2 2025 included significant M&A with Charter and Cox merging, VodafoneThree UK launching, and Virgin Media O2 creating a new B2B joint venture with Daisy Group. There has been a renewed focus on cyberattacks on small businesses. Robert Pritchard 2025-07-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131884&rss Sino-American geopolitical tensions mean tech competition is evolving. As buyers, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are at the forefront among the GCC States in pursuing regional AI supremacy through state-backed AI firms: Humain and G42, respectively. Ismail Patel 2025-07-23T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131883&rss Sino-American geopolitical tensions mean tech competition is evolving. As buyers, the GCC states are pursuing their own AI ambitions with considerable vigor, with implications for energy usage, emerging use cases, and AI sovereignty. Ismail Patel 2025-07-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131879&rss Sino-American geopolitical tensions mean tech competition is evolving to ecosystems. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the Gulf states. US tech vendors have seized on President Trump’s commercial overtures to the GCC to sell into the region. Ismail Patel 2025-07-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131881&rss The latest round of Zoom Workplace agentic AI enhancements continue Zoom’s ascent as a competitor but present challenges regarding security and market positioning. Gregg Willsky 2025-07-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131876&rss The highlight of the AWS Summit New York 2025 was the release of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a suite of capabilities designed to meet enterprises demand for tools that support their deployment of AI agents at scale. Rena Bhattacharyya 2025-07-18T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95846&rss Dell has updated its data center portfolio with enhanced edge capabilities and software to automate the deployment and management of private clouds. The company has launched Dell AI Factory in collaboration with Nvidia. Beatriz Valle 2025-07-18T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131864&rss Two key themes in Tech ESG in the quarter are incrementalism and pragmatism. Combined tech sector efforts have a significant impact on all aspects of ESG. Companies are also having to be pragmatic to prove and achieve their commercial goals. Robert Pritchard 2025-07-16T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131854&rss Google Cloud highlighted a wealth of customer cases during the Google Cloud summit held in London (England) on July 9-10, 2025, for attendees to evaluate practical use cases in real life. Beatriz Valle 2025-07-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131842&rss Google Cloud London Summit presented customer cases across sectors from retail and finance to education and defense. The platform has seen a 40-fold increase in Gemini usage year on year. Beatriz Valle 2025-07-11T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131794&rss AMD continues executing upon its annual roadmap cadence since it launched the MI300 GPUs less than two years ago. The launch of the AMD Instinct MI350 series was a highlight of the conference. Beatriz Valle 2025-06-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131792&rss AMD’s “Advancing AI 2025” event, held in San Jose, California in June 2025, dove deeper into the chip designer’s ambitious plans for the next few years. The launch of the Instinct MI350 series was a highlight of the conference. Beatriz Valle 2025-06-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131796&rss The next step in HPE’s acquisition of Juniper has been taken with the US DoJ and HPE making a deal that includes a divestiture and licensing AI Ops for Mist to a third party while competitive sharks circle drawn in by customer fear. Steve Schuchart 2025-06-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131798&rss The US Department of Justice and HPE have come to an agreement to allow HPE to complete its acquisition of Juniper Networks, but with some concessions that have interesting competitive implications. Steve Schuchart 2025-06-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131800&rss Sino-American geopolitical tensions mean tech ecosystem competition is evolving into ground zero. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the Gulf states. But any tech strategy for MEA must also consider Africa, a key growth region. Ismail Patel 2025-06-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131786&rss The first agentic-injected tools are now generally available, and developers are pinning high hopes on taking app modernization to new heights. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-06-27T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131775&rss AI agents promise to transform the process of application development by significantly easing the burden to enterprise developers who have been bogged down under modernization complexities. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-06-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131776&rss At HPE Discover 2025, among a slew of enhancements, the company introduced GreenLake Intelligence, an agentic AI-based foundation for IT operations. However, customers are unfamiliar with agentic AI and unclear why they need it. Steve Schuchart 2025-06-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131773&rss Sino-American geopolitical tensions mean tech ecosystem competition is evolving into ground zero. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the Gulf States. But any tech strategy for MEA must also consider Africa, a key growth region. Ismail Patel 2025-06-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131764&rss HPE has announced features and hardware to its HPE Private Cloud AI offering on-premises AI systems for enterprises, including new systems that support NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPU helping to keep HPE’s profile up in a competitive market. Steve Schuchart 2025-06-25T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131766&rss Every week there are more reports of cybersecurity breaches where login credentials are lost, leading to a numb feeling and holding us back from taking more personal responsibility with our own cybersecurity. Steve Schuchart 2025-06-25T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131761&rss Sino-American geopolitical tensions mean tech ecosystem competition is evolving into ground zero. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the Gulf States in the Middle East, which have garnered special attention from the two tech superpowers. Ismail Patel 2025-06-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131755&rss Zoom announced new features that add tangible value to the Zoom CX platform and keep it aligned with key industry trends. Gregg Willsky 2025-06-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131757&rss Nutanix’s annual event, .NEXT, included announcements about partnerships with Pure Storage and Cisco, a cloud-native Acropolis Operating System (AOS) for Kubernetes portability and updates to Nutanix Enterprise AI services. Beatriz Valle 2025-06-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131745&rss Cisco Live 2025 saw Cisco announce a unified product line and management model for Cisco’s campus access products, as well as a slew of new features and of course AI functionality that enhance Cisco’s competitive position. Steve Schuchart 2025-06-23T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131753&rss Growing technology restrictions in the US’s ongoing efforts to slow down China’s technological progress have wider and long-term implications for businesses and nation-states. Steve Schuchart 2025-06-23T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131746&rss Proximus Global has propelled itself to a major CPaaS competitor by bringing BICS, Route Mobile, and Telesign under one roof. The company has a strong vision, but it needs to stay innovative while becoming a larger, integrated business. Siow Meng Soh 2025-06-23T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131734&rss Extreme Networks has hit a milestone in its enterprise networking journey. The new Extreme Platform ONE offering serves as the basis for all network and security management with AI-driven features and visibility to drive simplicity and ease of use. Steve Schuchart 2025-06-20T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131731&rss Vodafone and Airbus are partnering on secure, cloud-based critical communications, starting in Germany. The solution integrates voice, video, and messaging for sectors like government and transport, using Vodafone's MCX and Airbus's Agnet platform. John Marcus 2025-06-19T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131725&rss The COVID-19 pandemic drove the ascent of team collaboration platforms, and the eventual predominance of features powered by AI. The technology has positive implications for the future of work. Gregg Willsky 2025-06-17T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131722&rss Large model providers are racing to offering chain of thought reasoning models. They promise greater transparency and accuracy; but are they worth the additional costs and computational power required? Rena Bhattacharyya 2025-06-16T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131710&rss Service providers see growing demand for Mobile Device-as-a-Service driven by sustainability, flexibility, and financial expedience. Enterprises value customization and enhanced support, while providers aim to differentiate on service delivery. John Marcus 2025-06-13T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131706&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 2025-06-12T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131696&rss At Boomi World 2025, Boomi unveiled tools to help businesses deploy AI-driven automation, including capabilities to better govern agents and the data they use, as well as pave the way for more seamless agent-to-agent collaboration in the future. Siow Meng Soh - Rena Bhattacharyya 2025-06-11T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131697&rss At Cisco Live San Diego 2025, a wide variety of artificial intelligence capabilities were promoted. Cisco continues to aggressively strengthen its portfolio with respect to customer experience, devices, manageability, and resiliency. Gregg Willsky 2025-06-11T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131685&rss Vendors are going after enterprise developers with early roll outs of AI agents. Agentic technology brings DevOps teams the promise of greatly reducing complex operational provisioning which has stalled app modernization efforts for years. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-06-06T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131553&rss The US tariff crisis is completely unpredictable, and enterprise IT, vendors, service providers, and channel partners all need to broaden their contingency plans and be prepared to adapt. Steve Schuchart 2025-06-02T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131660&rss AI is increasingly critical to national security and economic empowerment, prompting countries across the globe to implement strategies that support AI sovereignty. Enterprises should take note and craft roadmaps that support long-term agility. Rena Bhattacharyya 2025-05-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131666&rss HPE has introduced a new DPU-enabled switch, as well as new Wi-Fi 7 APs, but this shiny new technology will not stop customers from hesitating while the Juniper acquisition deal still lingers. Steve Schuchart 2025-05-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131656&rss Salesforce will strengthen its comprehensive AI platform through integration of Informatica’s broader data management services and spur greater interest in Tableau, Slack, and MuleSoft. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-05-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=105744&rss The enterprise IoT platform space showed further signs of consolidation with players selling their IoT units and consolidating their product roster. Most existing vendors have continued to enhance their products while some others are winning greater recognition. Ismail Patel 2025-05-27T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131624&rss 8x8 is undergoing a fundamental transformation into a customer experience organization. It is making the pivot while facing entrenched competitors who enjoy deeper resources, greater brand equity, and larger customer bases. Gregg Willsky 2025-05-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=128996&rss BT Business continues to ‘fully focus’ on the UK with disposals of non-UK assets and a future international strategy based around its Global Fabric NaaS platform, with alliances and partnerships at the heart of BT’s future global operations. Robert Pritchard 2025-05-19T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131599&rss 8x8 recently repositioned itself as a customer experience company. However, its true range of capabilities is broader, a fact that is at risk of getting lost on the market. Gregg Willsky 2025-05-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131588&rss Starlink and Bharti Airtel have expanded their partnership from India to Africa. This will increase digitalization across the 14 markets where Airtel Africa operates, with connectivity set to benefit high-value rural customers and SMBs the most. Ismail Patel 2025-05-12T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131587&rss The B2Bmerger of Virgin Media O2 and Daisy Group brings together compelling national network assets and an established and successful channel setup. But it is a complex challenge with many hurdles to be jumped - from systems to branding. Robert Pritchard - Gary Barton 2025-05-12T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131571&rss The foundations of the cybersecurity industry shook as the CVE program is nearly ended over short-sighted budget considerations. Steve Schuchart 2025-05-06T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131565&rss During the fourth edition of the Huawei IDI (Innovative Data Infrastructure) Forum, taking place in Munich (Germany) on April 28-29, 2025, one of the main announcements was the immediate global availability of Huawei AI Data Lake. Beatriz Valle 2025-05-02T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131557&rss Neos Networks’ survey research highlights the challenges UK altnets face. Altnet infrastructure roll-out success is not matched by generating revenues. Their strategic plans look naïve, and they must consolidate rapidly to be relevant and viable. Robert Pritchard 2025-05-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131548&rss To scale agentic AI and realize greater business value from automation, enterprises need tools that streamline the orchestration of tasks among multiple agents and support AI agent interoperability. Rena Bhattacharyya 2025-04-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131529&rss Political challenges and interference by US government are shaking global supply chains, causing some tech companies to review ESG activities, but direction of travel is one of incremental improvements. Commercial and environmental drivers remain. Robert Pritchard 2025-04-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131520&rss Aussie Broadband has unveiled its ambitious ‘Look to 28’ strategy, which will see the company focus on a segment that continues to consolidate while simplifying its product portfolio to focus on its core connectivity. Brendan Swan 2025-04-23T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131517&rss Enterprise developers are gaining access to high-productivity platforms, including observability, once reserved for IT ops infrastructure experts, via enhanced UI dashboards. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-04-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131512&rss Observability providers are heeding the call among enterprises to offer streamlined visibility to more DevOps team members, reflecting an important trend during this year’s European based Kubernetes conference, KubeCon. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-04-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=103776&rss OpenText continues its security product integration and platformization journey while infusing AI across its security portfolio. OpenText faces challenges as its integrations are still in process and competitors have more complete and integrated security platform offerings. Steve Schuchart 2025-04-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131505&rss The US tariffs will impact the data center market because materials for construction and operational costs will increase, with a knock-on effect on the cost of AI training and inference, which could undermine profit margins for tech companies. Beatriz Valle 2025-04-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131513&rss Zoom unfurled the latest list of AI-powered improvements to its Workplace platform. Taken in their entirety, they mark yet another chapter in an evolution taking place at Zoom since late 2023. Gregg Willsky 2025-04-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=129683&rss The industry is witnessing a major shift from legacy monitoring tools toward AI-driven observability platforms. This is crucial to help enterprises overcome their challenges in managing increasingly complex and distributed environments. Charlotte Dunlap - Siow Meng Soh 2025-04-17T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94578&rss Trend Micro is demonstrating strong performance with Q3 2023 results showing a 13% increase in net sales growth and advancements across its cybersecurity platform, including Trend Vision One. Steve Schuchart 2025-04-17T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131496&rss AMD announced that the sixth generation of its EPYC central processing units (CPUs), for servers and embedded systems, will be brought to market using TSMC’s 2 nanometer process technology. The “Venice” microprocessors are expected to launch in 2026. Beatriz Valle - Steve Schuchart 2025-04-16T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131497&rss Telco enterprise service providers continue to focus on the crucial small business market, looking to grow revenues beyond connectivity products to business solutions. Key areas being cybersecurity, cloud services, unified communications, and AI. Robert Pritchard 2025-04-16T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94582&rss Oracle announced plans to introduce Oracle Intelligent Data Lake as a new feature of the Oracle Data Intelligence Platform to facilitate using data from diverse sources, incorporating orchestration, data warehouses, analytics, and AI. Beatriz Valle 2025-04-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131485&rss Google Cloud Next announced Gemini will be available on premises as well as new capabilities in Vertex AI, Google’s developer platform. In addition, the new generation of TPUs, codenamed Ironwood, focuses on the inferencing opportunity. Beatriz Valle 2025-04-11T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131480&rss At the Google Cloud Next ’25 event, Google unveiled the latest round of Workspace enhancements. Although enriching the platform, the improvements presented a disjointed face to the market. Gregg Willsky 2025-04-10T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94550&rss Check Point’s security offerings have been somewhat slow to come together, but in the past 18 months have seen real progress. Its growth is still less than rivals in the space, but overall Check Point is moving in the right direction. Steve Schuchart 2025-04-09T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=97359&rss Palo Alto Networks continues to demonstrate strong billing with Q1 2024 revenues up by 20% and a strong product strategy across cloud, SASE, and security posture management through acquisitions and innovation. Steve Schuchart 2025-04-08T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131463&rss The US tariffs will have a profound impact on enterprise AI and technology trends far beyond pricing; they will influence international trade patterns, economic growth, employment, access to skill sets, and start-up investment. Rena Bhattacharyya - John Marcus 2025-04-07T00:00:00+01:00