Steve Wozniak at F5 AppWorld: What Engineers — and the Rest of Us — Have Forgotten About Building Things Right
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak joined F5 CPO Kunal Anand at F5 AppWorld 2026 in Las Vegas for a wide-ranging conversation about engineering philosophy, AI as a collaboration tool, the ethics of technology development, and his lifelong formula for happiness. Kunal Anand , Chief Product Officer at F5 , opened Thursday morning’s keynote by telling the room a personal story. His father brought home an Apple II — it was what the family could afford. And that computer changed ever
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Why Only 10% of Enterprises Successfully Scale AI — And What the Other 90% Are Getting Wrong
Research from Forrester and Accenture presented at F5 AppWorld 2026 shows only 10% of enterprises successfully scale AI — while the other 90% remain stuck in proof of concept. The enterprise AI conversation has shifted. A few years ago, the question was whether to invest. Today, most organizations are already spending — sometimes heavily — and still not seeing results at scale. That gap was the central theme at F5 AppWorld 2026 in Las Vegas this morning, where two back-to-ba
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Strategy World 2026: Three Customers, Three Industries, One Honest Gap Between AI Vision and Enterprise Reality
Three enterprise customers at Strategy World 2026 described what Mosaic adoption actually looks like. The gap between keynote vision and production reality is the story. Hours before this customer panel began, Strategy CEO Phong Le told a room full of industry analysts that traditional BI is dead, data warehouses are unnecessary costs, and 90% of software companies won’t exist in the near future. CPO Saurabh Abhyankar demonstrated AI coding tools building complete analytics a
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What Eight Infrastructure Companies Revealed About Enterprise IT in 2026
Eight infrastructure vendors at IT Press Tour #66 reveal how VMware exodus, AI workloads, and flash economics are reshaping enterprise IT strategy. The 66th IT Press Tour brought together eight companies with a common thread: they're all responding to the same infrastructure pressure points. After three and a half days of presentations in Palo Alto, a clear picture emerged of where enterprise technology is headed and why traditional approaches are breaking down. Three Market
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The Lustre Collective Brings Independent Expertise to High-Performance Storage Market
The Lustre Collective launches independent support for parallel filesystem serving exascale HPC and AI infrastructure across clouds and data centers. Presented at the 66th IT Press Tour, January 2026 Three veteran filesystem developers have launched The Lustre Collective, creating an independent support and development company for organizations running large-scale AI and high-performance computing workloads. The company addresses a specific market need. Lustre powers critical
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The Storage Problem Quietly Slowing AI Infrastructure: How Novodisq Is Rethinking the Economics
Novodisq is targeting the power and space constraints quietly slowing AI infrastructure. Here's how their storage economics could reshape spending. Covered at the 66th IT Press Tour—January 2026 Most of the AI infrastructure conversation focuses on GPUs. And for good reason—training large models is GPU-intensive and expensive. But there's a second constraint that doesn't get nearly enough attention: the storage and power underneath. Data center rack space in key regions is bo
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Scale Computing Delivers 70% Cost Reduction Through Edge Platform Consolidation
Scale Computing case studies show 70% cost reduction and 99%+ uptime through unified edge computing platform managing 100K+ sites globally. Scale Computing presented its unified edge computing strategy at the 66th IT Press Tour, showing how enterprises can consolidate infrastructure while reducing costs and improving reliability. The company manages 100,000+ sites globally through a single platform. The Business Case Traditional edge deployments require separate solutions for
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