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IBM is pulling together a package of tools to help enterprises discover, identify, manage, and control the growing number of AI agents in use. The package makes use of IBM’s newly available Agent Identity software and its HashiCorp Vault and watsonx Orchestrate packages, which together can identify and manage AI agents built across multiple platforms, according to the company. The agentic challen…

HPE continues to integrate its networking products with its AI-driven Mist platform and Marvis AI engine, this week bringing the HPE Networking EdgeConnect suite—which combines its SD-WAN and SSE products in a unified SASE offering—into the fold. The move enables enterprise IT teams to manage and troubleshoot the entire network—from Wi-Fi and campus switches to branch offices, WAN connections, an…

For organizations looking to migrate from VMware, the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) library is a critical component. VDDK is a set of C libraries for creating and accessing VMware virtual disk files, and until August of this year, it was available as a download. That is no longer the case . Many agentless migration tools used the libraries to read virtual disks. Broadcom has said lic…

Cisco’s annual Partner Summit is underway in Vancouver, where the vendor unveiled features and capabilities directed at partners and end-user organizations. “IT teams must modernize their networks and rethink how they operate while keeping systems secure against fast-changing threats,” wrote Joe Vaccaro , senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s network platform and assurance, in a bl…

Network engineers tell me that their security colleagues now routinely provide a list of requests and questions to help them better assess and manage risk. Threat trends and SOC pressures help explain why. Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 Report finds that adversaries remain undetected on networks longer, often by establishing persistence on edge devices (firewalls, routers, switches and access points) t…

As legacy VPN vulnerabilities and AI-driven exploits expose corporate networks, zero-trust architecture is emerging as the imperative replacement, making systems invisible and preventing broad network access. For more than two decades, VPNs have been the de facto standard and the default way to connect remote users to the corporate network. It worked when employees sat in offices and applications…

Google has an answer to some of the electricity supply problems that data center construction is causing : It has signed an agreement with energy supplier Voltus to build what it’s calling a 1-gigawatt virtual power plant, expanding on an earlier 100 megawatt deal the two signed earlier this year. This power plant is virtual in the sense that it doesn’t generate any electricity itself, but aggreg…

Hyperscalers are getting decidedly twitchy about citizens’ reactions to their secretive data center construction plans, and are looking for ways to de-escalate some of the conflicts. Earlier this month, Amazon announced its Data Center Commitment which, among other things, would disclose more information about energy and water use and consider a moratorium asking government officials to sign non-…

AI has created a paradox that comes up in almost every conversation I have with midmarket IT leaders. Smaller companies arguably have more to gain from AI than any other group. A 400-person firm can’t hire its way to the scale of a Fortune 500 competitor, but it can use AI to extend the reach of every employee it already has. A three-person finance team can close the books faster, a small sales t…

Nvidia is hosting its GTC conference in Berlin this week, and while the bulk of the news is European-oriented, there are several stories of interest around the world. They include the usual stories of Nvidia: AI compute platforms, data center infrastructure, and networking . Nvidia Unveils DSX POD Modular AI Factories Nvidia introduced the DSX POD, a factory-built, modular data center approach de…

AI infrastructure and AI software will shape the next $1 trillion dollars in IT spending growth, according to Gartner. The research firm is anticipating a significant rise in AI-driven spending in a wildly changing tech environment. “Spending on AI-optimized servers, AI-optimized infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and AI software platforms continues to strengthen as organizations seek to industri…

Extreme Networks is previewing a technology that will let enterprise customers run AI applications locally using a mix of on-premises compute and spare network equipment processing capacity. With Extreme Exchange zones, enterprises will be able to pool compute resources, including spare capacity on Extreme access points and switches already deployed at branch offices and other edge sites, to run …

Cisco announced a new operational technology security certification designed to help network and security professionals develop the skills needed to secure industrial environments as IT and OT systems become more connected. The Cisco OT Security Practitioner certification targets early-career OT professionals, IT practitioners transitioning into industrial roles, and students interested in indust…

Microsoft has reportedly withdrawn from an agreement to become the anchor customer for a planned artificial intelligence data center in Loughton, England, after delays in securing an electricity connection delayed the facility’s expected availability into the 2030s. The news was first reported in The Telegraph, a London newspaper. The project was announced in 2025 during President Donald Trump’s …

Multiple factors are coming together to propel enterprise deployments of SONiC, the open-source network operating system (NOS) created 10 years ago by Microsoft to run on white box switches in hyperscale data centers. Alan Weckel, founder and analyst at 650 Group , is forecasting that data center switching revenue based on SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) will exceed $5 billion i…