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We’re proud to celebrate Uniphore CEO and Co-Founder Umesh Sachdev, who has been named a 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards winner as AI Innovator of the Year.   This recognition honors leaders shaping the future of B2B technology through vision, innovation and influence. Umesh’s leadership continues to drive meaningful impact for our team, our customers and the industry.    Umesh was named a 2026 winner for his vision for the Business AI Cloud: a sovereign, composable and secure platform spanning data, knowledge, models and agents that lets CIOs deploy, manage, and continually improve AI securely using the infrastructure they already have — continuously consulting CIOs to ensure that the solution meets real enterprise needs and delivers real business outcomes.    While serving over 2,000 global businesses, including many of the Fortune 500, Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud enables organizations to achieve a 7X reduction in time to deploy AI apps with >90% retrieval accuracy.    Congratulations, and thank you to SiliconANGLE & theCUBE for recognizing leadership across the tech ecosystem.    Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g68mj5Fk

🏆 We’ve been named the Data Platform Innovator of the Year in the 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards! This award recognizes our data streaming platform’s key role in enabling seamless data operations, delivering actionable insights, and driving transformative business outcomes. A massive thank you to SiliconANGLE & theCUBE for the recognition! Learn more about the award here: https://lnkd.in/eRzPMrse

AI models are only as good as the networks they run on 🌐 This week, #theCUBE and NYSE Wired’s Gemma Allen was on the floor of the NYSE to witness a major evolution: Lumen Technologies is signalling a shift from legacy connectivity player to the "Trusted Network for AI." It’s more than just a telecom refresh – it’s about building the high-capacity, low-latency infrastructure required to power the AI revolution. Our team caught up with Lumen’s leadership, including CEO Kate Johnson, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer Ryan Asdourian, and CTO Jim Fowler, to discuss how they are re-engineering the backbone of the digital economy. The message from the floor was clear: To win in AI, you need a network that can handle the heat. #AI #Infrastructure #Lumen #NYSEWired #theCUBE #DigitalTransformation #TechLeadership Frank Fay

Smart switch boosts operational efficiency across the organization ⚡ Join #theCUBE’s Christophe Bertrand in this special conversation with Tom Gillis, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Security Business Group at Cisco, as they dig into how a smart switch won’t replace traditional firewall, but bring enforcement into untouched traffic. “Where smart switch shines is for intercepting and analyzing what we call ‘east-west traffic,’ which is the traffic between a database and an app server, the inner workings of a data center. East-west traffic is typically 20 to 100 times greater than what we call north-south, which is coming over the perimeter. So, a smart switch is not going to replace a traditional hardware-based firewall on the perimeter, but it's going to bring enforcement into traffic that is generally not touched,” Gillis shares. “This allows you to employ this enforcement. There have been customers that have tried to do it with a hardware-based firewall, but it creates these crazy network loops and performance bottlenecks, and it's just not a practical solution. So, the smart switch makes east-west traffic enforcement and application protection actually viable,” he adds. 💡 Get more insights into Cisco’s data center & cloud channel: https://lnkd.in/dK_62_xB #SmartSwitch #Traffic #Firewall #EnterpriseAI

Mark your calendars: Submissions for the SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards open in March. This program honors established enterprise solutions and the breakthrough technologies defining the future of business. Categories include: ▪️ AI ▪️ Blockchain / Crypto ▪️ Cloud ▪️ Data Platform  ▪️ Security Winners and finalists will be featured in the SiliconANGLE TechForward Buyer’s Guide. Stay tuned for more details! #TechAwards #EnterpriseTech #B2BTech #AI #Security #Cloud #DataPlatform #Blockchain #Crypto #BuyersGuide

How scaling supports technological adoption & employee satisfaction ⭐ Join theCUBE’s John Furrier at NYSE, as he sits down with Aaron Reinitz, Director at Google Cloud & Mark Shank, Principal at KPMG in the exclusive “Google Cloud Partners Showcase.” They discuss the partnership between both companies and how KPMG’s smooth technology adoption capabilities support Google’s customers. “Adoption has been easier with more scale. By rolling things out wall to wall, you can create more viral moments. When you roll them out to more people, you get more of those moments. That creates the flywheel effect that drives adoption really across. When we rolled out, we had over 70% in the first 48 hours using the system. We have over 83% of employees reporting that they're satisfied with the answers and help they're getting from the system. We're actively moving towards agents that will be able to allow the employees to do self-service on the HR side,” Shank shares. “We're at a stage in the market where authenticity is currency. When you have a partner like KPMG who has gone and adopted the technology, figured out how to roll out value quickly and impact a very highly skilled workforce at scale, it puts them in a position to be able to do that same work for our shared customers in the broader market in a really differentiated way,” Reinitz adds. 💡 Get more insights! https://lnkd.in/d9KvB-2U #AI #TechAdoption #EmployeeSatisfaction #Scaling #EnterpriseAI

🏆 ICYMI: The winners of the 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards have been announced. We’re proud to recognize the companies, leaders and technologies shaping the future of B2B and B2B2C tech. The strength and competitiveness of this year’s submissions reflects the incredible pace of innovation happening across the tech ecosystem. Our 2026 winners stood out for their innovation, market impact and demonstrable results. See the full list of winners here: https://lnkd.in/gp9cB5Y9 #theCUBEdAwards #TechInnovation #B2BTech #AI #EnterpriseTech