https://biztechmagazine.com/ en https://biztechmagazine.com/media/video/cisco-live-2026-cisco-cloud-control-poised-integrate-agents-your-workforce As in most years, Cisco Live 2026 was packed with new product announcements and enhancements of Cisco’s premiere offerings. This year, much of the focus was on Cisco Cloud Control, which was described by DJ Sampath, senior vice president and general manager of AI software and platform at Cisco as “the secure harness for the agentic era.” As agentic AI becomes a critical part of enterprise operations, Cisco has anticipated the need to observe and secure agents, creating what Sampath called a unified operations platform “that brings every Cisco domain — networking, security, AI… Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:18:53 -0400 https://biztechmagazine.com/media/video/cisco-live-2026-cisco-cloud-control-poised-integrate-agents-your-workforce https://biztechmagazine.com/media/video/snowflake-summit-26-build-data-infrastructure-supports-ai-initiatives As more businesses look to artificial intelligence solutions to create efficiencies, they’re realizing that the cloud is often too expensive to support AI initiatives alone. The data center plays an important role in modern infrastructure.  CDW has partnered with Dell Technologies and Snowflake to offer an infrastructure layer that supports advanced analytics initiatives on Snowflake’s platform. At Snowflake Summit 26 in San Francisco, BizTech connected with an expert on this partnership to explain how enterprises are changing their approach to on-premises data, how Dell Technologies and… Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:45:52 -0400 https://biztechmagazine.com/media/video/snowflake-summit-26-build-data-infrastructure-supports-ai-initiatives https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/review-jabra-panacast-40-vbs-brings-scalable-hybrid-collaboration-small-rooms Enterprises modernizing collaboration spaces face a constant problem: Small meeting rooms are often the weakest link in hybrid communication. While large boardrooms receive full audiovisual buildouts, huddle rooms are left with mismatched webcams, USB speakers and inconsistent setups. The Jabra PanaCast 40 VBS is designed specifically to address that gap at scale. In my testing, the PanaCast 40 VBS immediately stood out for its 180-degree panoramic field of view. Dual cameras stitched together a wide, distortion-free image that captured everyone seated in a small room without forcing… Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:13:12 -0400 John Breeden II https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/review-jabra-panacast-40-vbs-brings-scalable-hybrid-collaboration-small-rooms https://biztechmagazine.com/ad/databricks-data-ai-summit Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:43:20 -0400 https://biztechmagazine.com/ad/databricks-data-ai-summit https://biztechmagazine.com/events/databricks-data-ai-summit Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:41:42 -0400 https://biztechmagazine.com/events/databricks-data-ai-summit https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-cortex-xdr-reshaping-modern-security-operations-center Security operations centers (SOCs) are facing a growing paradox: They have more data and tools than ever, yet detecting and responding to threats remains painfully slow. According to Palo Alto Networks, the problem isn’t a lack of visibility — it’s the inability to act on it quickly enough. “The evidence is always there,” says Senior Partner Architect Bob Vish. The problem “is how quickly we can see it, how close we can get to real time and how well we can avoid what I call a failure of imagination.” That challenge is driving increased interest in extended detection and response (XDR)… Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:33:56 -0400 Bob Keaveney https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-cortex-xdr-reshaping-modern-security-operations-center https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/storage-data-cloud-how-ai-forcing-rethink-enterprise-infrastructure Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting all of the headlines, but IT infrastructure is where the real pressure is building. Across industries, organizations are discovering that traditional storage architectures — built around silos, manual provisioning and rigid scaling — simply can’t keep up with modern data demands. In response, Everpure is advancing a new model: the Enterprise Data Cloud.  At a high level, the idea is straightforward. Instead of managing fragmented storage systems across on-premises and cloud environments, IT teams operate a unified data platform that abstracts… Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:13:29 -0400 Bob Keaveney https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/storage-data-cloud-how-ai-forcing-rethink-enterprise-infrastructure https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-wi-fi-8-will-deliver-enhanced-reliability-small-businesses Almost every successive release of the Wi-Fi standard has essentially been a race for more speed.  Wi-Fi 8 is breaking the mold a bit. Expected to arrive in early 2028, the emerging standard, IEEE 802.11bn, prioritizes ultra-high reliability and deterministic performance over raw throughput, according to both networking vendors and industry analysts.  “Organizations should think about Wi-Fi 8 as a standard that’s prioritizing reliability over raw speed,” says Brandon Butler, a senior research manager in IDC’s network infrastructure group. “It’s focusing on more deterministic… Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:50:15 -0400 Phil Goldstein https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-wi-fi-8-will-deliver-enhanced-reliability-small-businesses https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/snowflake-summit-26-get-ready-ai-success Snowflake is a powerful tool to help organizations take advantage of artificial intelligence by bringing structured and unstructured data together in a single environment and making it easier for organizations to prepare data for AI models. But before they can achieve the AI success that Snowflake offers, organizations need to use it effectively, said Paul Zajdel and Christopher Marcolis of CDW during a presentation this week at Snowflake Summit 26 in San Francisco. “A lot of companies say they haven’t been able to take it to the next level,” Zajdel, CDW’s vice president of data and analytics… Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:49:38 -0400 Matt McLaughlin https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/snowflake-summit-26-get-ready-ai-success https://biztechmagazine.com/media/video/snowflake-summit-26-what-does-it-take-achieve-data-quality Data quality and strong data governance are key to having a strong foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives. Without clean, quality and accurate data, AI and analytics platforms could respond to queries with incorrect information, misleading users who might not know there is a quality issue.  The need for consistent data governance and quality monitoring is only growing, but many organizations don’t know where to start.  At Snowflake Summit 26 in San Francisco, BizTech spoke with Snowflake Head of Horizon Catalog and Collaboration Prasanna Krishnan about the difference… Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:16:53 -0400 https://biztechmagazine.com/media/video/snowflake-summit-26-what-does-it-take-achieve-data-quality