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Zeus Kerravala

Industry analyst and founder of ZK Research, covering networking, collaboration, contact center and AI infrastructure; often quoted in tech media.

Known aliases

  • Kerravala

Current stories

productConfirmed15 publishers

Nvidia pays $12.9bn to own the download path for open models

Jensen Huang says Nvidia will not favor its own chips on Hugging Face. The reporting captures only that statement, with no mechanism attached, and that puts weight distribution in front of platform teams as a live decision they never had to make before.

Perspective Coverage

15 publishers
Builder
Builder 32%
Operator
Operator 29%
Investor
Investor 39%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption72
Hype gap+20
Incentives74
Confidence64
productOne report1 publisher

Analysts closing theCUBE's contact center summit make resolution quality the ROI number

At theCUBE's contact center summit, analysts Bob Laliberte and Zeus Kerravala argued that agentic support should be scored on whether the customer's problem got completed. Their scorecard asks for five kinds of numbers, including cost and growth.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+32
Incentives68
Confidence52
productOne report1 publisher

Five9's CEO reserves complex, high-value and sensitive calls for humans

Amit Mathradas, who took over Five9 in February, says the misconception is that humans are going away from the contact center. The customer result he offers is a containment rate above 50%.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence20
Adoption24
Hype gap+34
Incentives82
Confidence44
productOne report1 publisher

Zoom pushes contact centers to score AI on completed tasks instead of contained calls

Zoom's Ram Rajagopalan says buyers who measured only containment a year ago now ask about end-to-end resolution. Neither he nor the implementation partner beside him gave a figure for either metric.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives82
Confidence48
productOne report1 publisher

theCUBE Research's Laliberte ties contact center AI payback to knowledge management gaps

Legacy scores reward a short call that fixed nothing, and the two analysts on theCUBE's contact center summit coverage say AI payback now depends on the content the agent reads from and on whether the problem closed.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+28
Incentives74
Confidence58