Who leads in AI?
We analyze, measure, and convene to find out.
IT Brand Pulse is the symbol for AI brand leadership. We analyze the AI market, measure which brands IT professionals trust in independent surveys voted by humans, and convene the people who decide. Since 2008.
Next on the Forum: Endless Memory with CXL, Episode 2: KV Cache. Wednesday, October 28. Register →
Analyze. Measure. Convene.
Three ways of taking the pulse, one loop. Analysis defines the categories, practitioners vote on who leads them, and the Forum puts the results in front of the people who decide.
Analyze
Industry Analysis
Analyst coverage of enterprise AI infrastructure and the AI product stack: Industry First validations, analyst reports, and For Noobs guides that make new technology understandable fast.
Measure
Brand Leader Research
Independent, non-sponsored surveys of 200+ IT professionals per category, scored across the Five Pillars of AI brand leadership. No sponsors, no judges' panel, no algorithm.
Convene
AI Leadership Forum
Webinar series, panels, and a daily-active community where the builders, buyers, and investors behind the votes meet the analysts and the vendors.
2026 Brand Leaders: Enterprise AI Infrastructure
Dell leads 10 of 28 product categories, but no vendor owns the stack. Winners are chosen by the practitioners who buy, deploy, and run these products.
Servers
Enterprise AI Factory, Training, Inference, Edge
Dell
Memory and media
Enterprise DRAM DIMMs, AI SSDs, CXL Memory Modules
Samsung
Networking
Core Switches, Edge Switches
NVIDIA
Storage and data
AI Data Lakehouse Platforms
Databricks
Where the people behind the votes show up.
The AI Leadership Forum brings business leaders, infrastructure practitioners, analysts, standards bodies, and technology innovators together for a multi-vendor view of the technologies powering AI. Survey results set the agenda; the conversation sets the next survey.
Current series
Endless Memory with CXL
Four episodes on how Compute Express Link is changing the way memory is deployed, expanded, shared, and reused for the next generation of AI infrastructure.
Episode 1, CXL 101: on demand
Episode 3, DDR4 Reuse: Wednesday, December 2
Episode 4, Memory Pooling: Wednesday, January 13
See the full series →
Next episode · Wednesday, October 28 · Virtual · Free for practitioners
Episode 2: KV Cache
How additional memory tiers and cache management can support inference throughput, responsiveness, and efficiency.
Presenting organizations
Earn it, then amplify it.
You can't buy the vote. You can put the result in front of 160,000 IT professionals, in our name, through our channels, and on the Forum stage.
Analyze
Industry First Program
Memorialize a real first with independent validation, a badge, and a report your buyers will read.
Measure
Brand Leader Program
Won a category? Turn the recognition into video, profile, and award assets that carry the medal and our name.
Convene
AI Leadership Forum
Present or sponsor. Be on stage with the practitioners who voted, then reach the ones who couldn't attend.
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