We are LIVE for Episode 12 of the Hot Desk Pod with Patrick Moorhead and Melody Brue with early GAI productivity data from the Microsoft Work Trend Index, Zoom Surveys, and emoji compliance in UCC Hot or Not? - Instagram-worthy offices. Tune in for all things modernwork! 

GenAI Productivity Data: Microsoft Work Trend Index 

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/copilots-earliest-users-teach-us-about-generative-ai-at-work

Zoom Surveys

• https://news.zoom.us/zoom-surveys/

Emoji Compliance 

• https://www.techtarget.com/searchunifiedcommunications/feature/Ensuring-collaboration-tool-compliance-and-governance

Hot or Not? Instagram-Worthy Offices 

• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/business/office-design-rto.html
• https://www.businessinsider.com/return-to-office-instagram-post-rto-wfh-work-2023-11

Disclaimer: This show is for information and entertainment purposes only. While we will discuss publicly traded companies on this show. The contents of this show should not be taken as investment advice.

Welcome to this week’s edition of “MI&S Datacenter Podcast” I’m Patrick Moorhead with Moor Insights & Strategy, and I am joined by co-hosts Matt, Will, and Paul. We analyze the week’s top datacenter and datacenter edge news. We talk compute, cloud, security, storage, networking, operations, data management, AI, and more!

Better Bedrock Building

• https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/11/aws-announces-more-model-choice-and-powerful-new-capabilities-in-amazon-bedrock-to-securely-build-and-scale-generative-ai-applications

HPE’s Impressive Intelligent Edge Performance

• https://x.com/WillTownTech/status/1729883805442605382?s=20

Thumbs Up - AWS Innovation Center

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-the-aws-generative-ai-innovation-centers-custom-model-program-for-anthropic-claude/

AWS Speaks to Observability

• https://x.com/WillTownTech/status/1729211188066820455?s=20

New Skills for AWS Sagemaker

• https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/11/aws-announces-five-new-amazon-sagemaker-capabilities-for-scaling-with-models

Cisco Partner Summit Insights

• https://x.com/WillTownTech/status/1724434889464828278?s=20

AWS New Home Grown Silicon - Graviton4 and Trainium2

Disclaimer: This show is for information and entertainment purposes only. While we will discuss publicly traded companies on this show. The contents of this show should not be taken as investment advice.

We're live for episode 11 of the MI&S Hot Desk Podcast, talking about RingCentral’s launch event, Microsoft Ignite, and Lenovo’s video bar collaboration with Jabra.

RingCentral Virtual Launch Event  

RingCentral Events

• https://ir.ringcentral.com/news/press-release-details/2023/RingCentral-Introduces-RingCentral-Events-for-Virtual-Onsite-and-Hybrid-Events/default.aspx
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/melodybrue_ringcentrallauch-activity-7130288211829919744-hQg9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

RingCX AI-first Contact Center

• https://ir.ringcentral.com/news/press-release-details/2023/RingCentral-Announces-General-Availability-of-RingCX-a-Natively-Built-AI-first-Contact-Center-that-is-Simple-to-Use-and-Easy-to-Deploy/default.aspx

Microsoft Ignite 2023

Microsoft Copilot Updates in Teams and 365

• https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1724980955918844146?s=20
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-microsoft-ignite-2023/ba-p/3976670

Microsoft Copilot Studio 

• https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7130600747037032448/
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/11/15/announcing-microsoft-copilot-studio-customize-copilot-for-microsoft-365-and-build-your-own-standalone-copilots/

Lenovo Collaborates with Jabra 

• https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/jabra-thinksmart-bar-180-solution-windows-autopilot-support/

Disclaimer: This show is for information and entertainment purposes only. While we will discuss publicly traded companies on this show. The contents of this show should not be taken as investment advice.

Welcome to this week’s edition of “MI&S Datacenter Podcast” I’m Patrick Moorhead with Moor Insights & Strategy, and I am joined by co-hosts Matt, Will, and Paul. We analyze the week’s top datacenter and datacenter edge news. We talk compute, cloud, security, storage, networking, operations, data management, AI, and more!

Microsoft Jumps into the Silicon Game at Ignite

• https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7130677095503953921/
• https://twitter.com/MattKimball_MIS/status/1724912009227931893

AI = Trillion Watt Hours

• https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00365-3

Oracle Hosts PostgreSQL. What?

• https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7130546703182548992/
• https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/oci-database-postgres

Quantum Utility

• https://research.ibm.com/blog/what-is-quantum-utlity

Supercomputing 2023 Takeaways

• https://twitter.com/MattKimball_MIS/status/1724246586459394512
• https://twitter.com/MoorInsStrat/status/1724426857251053916

Pssst. Hey, Want a Job?

• https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-new-tack-in-talent-war-with-google-promising-recruits-a-quick-stock-bump

Dell Tech Analyst Summit 2023 Recap

• https://twitter.com/MattKimball_MIS/status/1720104041093456281

AWS AI Party Rock!

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/build-ai-apps-with-partyrock-and-amazon-bedrock/
• https://partyrock.aws/

Disclaimer: This show is for information and entertainment purposes only. While we will discuss publicly traded companies on this show. The contents of this show should not be taken as investment advice.

Will Townsend, Vice President & Principal Analyst, Networking & Security sits down with Fastly CEO Todd Nightingale to discuss Fastly, its mission and opportunities for the future at the company's Altitude 2023 event.

On this episode of the Moor Insights & Strategy Podcast, Will Townsend, Vice President and Principal Analyst for Networking and Security is joined by Nav Singh, Vice President of Marketing for Network Security at Palo Alto Networks. Their conversation covers Palo Alto Networks' virtual event, Intersect, which focused on four best practice sessions:

1. Zero Trust Foundation for Network Security: They explore the concept of zero trust in network security. Zero Trust is simple in concept but challenging to implement, and the pandemic and hybrid work models have shifted the approach to network security from implicit trust to explicit, continuous verification. Palo Alto Networks advocates three principles: least privileged access control, continuous trust verification, and continuous security inspection.
2. Hybrid Workforce Security: The conversation shifts to the challenges of securing networks in a hybrid work environment and Palo Alto Networks' approach, which includes secure access service edge (SASE) to bring security and networking closer to users, whether mobile or in branch offices. The two discuss the need for exceptional user experience and sophisticated threat protection in various settings.
3. Securing a Hybrid Cloud with Complete Zero Trust: Will and Nav delve into the complexities of securing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, highlighting the shared responsibility in cloud security and Palo Alto Networks' solutions that provide sophisticated security in a software form factor for cloud-hosted applications.
4. Securing Endpoints and Operational Technology (OT) Environments: The focus turns to securing endpoints and OT environments, like manufacturing and healthcare, where IoT and machine-to-machine connections are prevalent. Nav discusses the unique challenges in these environments and Palo Alto Networks' tailored approach to visibility, policy recommendations, and securing IT and OT environments.

Throughout their conversation, Will and Nav emphasize the importance of simplicity, scalability, visibility, and tailored solutions for different industry verticals in network and security management.

We're LIVE for Episode 10 of the MI&S Hot Desk Podcast, talking about Adobe MAX, Box Works, Avaya’s customer journey, Cisco WebexOne, and Hot or Not? A not-quite-freemium XaaS model. 

Adobe MAX 

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2023/11/02/adobe-highlights-ai-powered-creativity-and-content-supply-chain-at-adobe-max/

BoxWorks 

• https://x.com/MelodyBrue/status/1715055613825126703?s=20
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNYZ9g9yY0Q

Avaya’s “Choose Your Journey” Strategy

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2023/07/21/avaya-ceo-theres-not-a-company-in-this-space-id-trade-balance-sheets-with/?sh=5607a1016eda
• https://www.avaya.com/en/about-avaya/newsroom/pr-us-230501/
• https://events.avaya.com/intl-ev-gitex?CTA=24CLD-EMEA-GTX-EM&TAC=24CLD-EMEA-SIGN-EM

Cisco WebexOne 

• https://www.webexone.com/
• https://x.com/MelodyBrue/status/1717181509390729704?s=20

Hot or Not? “No-Additional Cost” Features

Webex contact center basic

• https://investor.cisco.com/news/news-details/2023/Cisco-Unveils-Webex-AI-Strategy-at-WebexOne/default.aspx

Zoom Companion AI 

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2023/09/08/zoom-unveils-new-ai-companion-features/?sh=7ac668464af0

Microsoft Windows 11 AI Features 

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2023/09/27/microsoft-aims-to-bring-ai-to-life-with-a-unified-copilot-experience/?sh=1f56d9335e0b

Canva - Free for Classrooms 

• https://mashable.com/article/canva-launches-classroom-ai-tools?utm_source=www.joinsuperhuman.ai&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=apple-s-big-ai-push-siri-music-messages-and-more

Disclaimer: This show is for information and entertainment purposes only. While we will discuss publicly traded companies on this show. The contents of this show should not be taken as investment advice.

On this episode of the Moor Insights & Strategy Insider Podcast, host Melody Brue is joined by Matthew Purdon, Sr. Product Director, Creative Cloud for Enterprise & SMB at Adobe during the Adobe Max conference. Their conversation focuses on Adobe's response to the dramatically increasing need for content, particularly in terms of personalization, variety of channels, and velocity. Key points discussed:

• Content Demand Explosion: Adobe predicts a 5x increase in content demand in the next two years. This surge encompasses personalization, channel variety, and content velocity.
• Adobe Gen Studio's Role: Adobe's integrated end-to-end solution addresses challenges in the entire content supply chain and facilitates content creation by leveraging generative AI, enabling efficient collaboration between creatives and marketers.
• Content Supply Chain: The content supply chain process, from creative brief to content delivery, is inefficient in its current state in areas such as asset mismanagement and time wastage. Melody and Matthew explore how Adobe's solutions enhance efficiency and speed to market.
• Macro vs. Agile Marketing: Adobe Gen Studio supports both macro marketing (large, brand-focused campaigns) and agile marketing (quick, iterative campaigns) by enabling the use of assets from macro campaigns in agile ones, improving efficiency and brand consistency.
• Control Over Content Creation: The importance of control in content creation is stressed, ensuring that AI tools like Firefly augment rather than replace human creativity and preserve brand integrity.
• C-Suite Attention on Content Velocity: The discussion shifts to why content velocity is a C-suite concern, emphasizing cost reduction and efficiency in content creation as key drivers.
• Adobe's Competitive Edge: Adobe's strength lies in its comprehensive product suite, seamless integrations, and data analytics capabilities, leading to a robust content management ecosystem.
• Ecosystem and Generative AI: Adobe’s ecosystem is tailored to unite marketers and creatives, facilitating content creation across professional and more accessible tools. Adobe is investing heavily in generative AI (like Firefly) to integrate into creative workflows, enhancing productivity and creative potential.

Overall, the conversation underscores Adobe’s strategic response to the increasing demands of content creation, focusing on efficiency, integration of advanced technologies like AI, and the balance of creative control with scalable content production. This is a great conversation you don't want to miss!

In this Moor Insights & Strategy DataCenter Podcast, VP & Principal Analyst Matt Kimball is joined by Daniel McGinniss, VP Product Management at Cisco and Lee Caswell, SVP Solutions and Product Marketing at Nutanix to discuss the partnership between their two companies. Highlights of their conversation include:

The partnership between Nutanix and Cisco is a strategic one that aims to deliver the industry's most complete hybrid cloud solution to simplify customer operations, maximize resiliency, and accelerate IT transformation. Together, they are focused on three pillars: technology, support, and go-to-market. 

Cisco and Nutanix both recognize that the hyperconverged space is one of the largest growing segments in the IT industry, and that there is a growing need for distributed data and the ability to run workloads anywhere.

The partnership brings together Nutanix's expertise in hyperconverged infrastructure with Cisco's expertise in networking and infrastructure management. 

The two companies have also worked together to optimize their technologies for the partnership, resulting in a solution that is greater than the sum of its parts.

This is a great conversation you don't want to miss!

On this episode of the Moor Insights & Strategy Insider Podcast, host Patrick Moorhead is joined by Peter Chapman, IonQ President and CEO. They discuss:

• How to be a front-runner in today's quantum era and beyond,
• Highlights of exciting announcements from IonQ's product roadmap, and
• Why it's essential to ensure access to enterprise-grade systems that deliver commercial advantage.

This is a fascinating conversation you don't want to miss!