Joseph F. Kovar

Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang said future growth comes from Nividia being a foundation of both hyperscale data centers and thousands of AI-native clouds.

‘There are 250,000 enterprise companies around the world. Many of them will have to build or want to build AI factories for themselves to operate.

‘As businesses start to mature operationally, they have a sales team, a management team, better KPIs and better processes, and all of those things command a higher multiple,' says Kevin Damghani, founder and CEO of ITPartners+.

‘If you have a CISO or vCIO, or you're doing some sort of artificial intelligence data analytics as-a-service-type play, those types of organizations

‘If a selling company gave [buyers] a category of AI revenue, the buyers would definitely dig in to see how much of that revenue is resold platforms

General Informatics CEO Highlights IP Ownership to Shape MSP Valuations in Recent M&A Discussions Key Takeaways: • Don Monistere of General Informatics says MSPs with proprietary IP often see stronger valuations in M&A. • Buyers are focusing more on strategic revenue tied to security, AI and advisor

Extreme Networks President and CEO Ed Meyercord said his company now offers channel partners guaranteed pricing through Nov. 1, simplified licensing, and more.

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says AI, hybrid cloud, and channel partners are leading Nutanix’s growth.

About 30 of the employees impacted by the layoffs are involved in engineering.

Cisco rolls out new agentic AI, security and quantum-readiness technologies at Cisco Live.