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Bob O'Donnell
TECHnalysis Research was founded by technology market research veteran Bob O'Donnell.
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Column/Blog
June 10, 2025

Cisco Highlights Promise and Potential of On-Prem Agents and AI

At a big vendor event like Cisco Live, it’s always challenging to find themes that run through the enormous range of announcements that typically get made at these kinds of shows. The volume of news can quickly get overwhelming, making it difficult to summarize what the top few topics from the show were. At this year’s show, however, one thing that became apparent is that the opportunity for running important applications—like GenAI and autonomous agents—is no longer limited to the cloud—and Cisco is here for it.

TECHnalysis Research, LLC provides strategic consulting and market research services to the technology industry and professional financial community. Building on a deep understanding of critical technology and business trends in conjunction with hard-hitting, original research, the firm provides unique "out-of-the-box" perspectives that are still grounded in the practical realities of the technology, media and telecom markets.
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Column/Blog
June 12, 2025

AMD Drives System Level AI Advances

In the ever-evolving world of generative AI, important advances are happening simultaneously across chips, software, models, networking and systems that combine all these elements together. That’s what makes it so hard to keep up with all the latest AI trends and developments. The difficulty factor spikes up significantly if you’re a vendor building those kinds of products and working not only to keep up but drive those advances forward. Toss in a primary competitor that’s managed to virtually corner the market and, in the process, grow into one of the world’s most valuable companies and, well, things can appear pretty challenging. That’s the situation AMD found themselves in as they went into their latest Advancing AI event.

USA Today Column
June 10, 2025

WWDC 2025: Apple is still behind on AI, but does it matter?

Going into this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event, there’s been a lot of speculation about what Apple would, or wouldn’t, say about Apple Intelligence and updates to its Siri personal assistant. After all, it was at the same event last year that Apple first unveiled Apple Intelligence with great fanfare, so interest has been riding high. Given how disappointing the reality of those features have been compared to the impressive demos and grandiose vision that Apple shared last year, the anticipation has been even greater.