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Cisco is laying the groundwork to protect enterprise customers from an onslaught of AI agents and any security problems they may present in the near future. It’s rolling out identity and access management capabilities, a toolkit customers can use to embed security controls in AI agents , and automation features that will allow security operations teams to quickly see and respond to problems. “We …

Cisco ( Nasdaq:CSCO ) is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking , and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco is focusing on strategic AI initiatives and partnerships across various regions to build and power AI data centers and ecosystems. This includes collaborations with major players like BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and Nvidia to drive in…

The 2025 cybersecurity landscape was defined by a ruthless paradox: the lightning-fast weaponization of the new alongside the stubborn persistence of the old. This week at the RSAC 2026 conference, Cisco released its Talos 2025 Year in Review report, and it shows a new narrative has emerged for networking and security professionals. Attackers have moved beyond simple endpoint compromise, shifting…

Remembering the classic data center during a keynote at GTC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said “it used to be … for files. It’s now a factory to generate tokens.” Those old buildings are gone, replaced by mega installations powering AI. At GTC, Nvidia laid out a forward-looking data-center architecture with new chips, storage and networking technologies. Nvidia is also looking outward, to the edge and…

Nile was founded on the idea that enterprise networking had become too complex and too difficult to consume. The company built its Nile Access Service platform on a subscription-based NaaS model, delivering wired and wireless campus infrastructure with zero-trust security and autonomous operations. It has grown to more than 150 customers across 30 countries. Nile is now expanding its Nile Access …

Despite tariffs and parts shortages, the server market reached a record $125.3 billion dollars in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2025, driven by the accelerated investment in AI Infrastructure, according to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. As has been the case for some time, hyperscalers and cloud service providers are the ones driving demand wh…

European cloud companies have called on the European Union to strengthen its legislative plans for cloud resilience and sovereignty, as they are concerned that it could enable US hyperscalers to indulge in “sovereignty-washing” — giving their services a false appearance of European sovereignty. The chair of the industry association Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe and 24 CEOs of …

A critical Telnet vulnerability with a CVSS rating of 9.8 enables attackers to take full control of affected systems before authentication even kicks in, security researchers at Dream Security have warned. Tracked as CVE-2026-32746, the vulnerability is in GNU inetutils telnetd, is a widely deployed implementation of the Telnet remote access protocol found across legacy infrastructure, networking…

“We’re going to space,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at the company’s GTC conference on Monday. But then he qualified those remarks. “We’ve already been out in space,” he said. The company’s chips are already in satellites in orbit above Earth. What’s new is that Nvidia is moving from isolated satellite deployments of its chips to larger-scale plans. “We’ll also build data centers in space,”…

SASE is headed in a new direction, literally. According to Versa CEO Kelly Ahuja , security service edge ( SSE ) platforms have historically focused on one direction: outbound traffic from users and devices to the internet. Protecting internet-facing applications from inbound threats has required deploying dedicated firewall infrastructure in front of each application environment, whether in a da…

Despite OpenAI’s multiple re-affirmations that its relationship with Microsoft is strong and central, in view of recent developments, Redmond doesn’t seem to be convinced. According to reports , the tech giant is considering legal action against OpenAI and Amazon over the $50 billion cloud deal the two recently struck to make Amazon Web Services (AWS) the exclusive third-party cloud distribution …

Lenovo introduced an expansion of its Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with Nvidia at the GPU giant’s GTC trade show , positioning the portfolio as an end-to-end path for production AI inferencing. Lenovo said the expanded line of products are designed to accelerate AI adoption, reduce time-to-first-token (TTFT), and spans client devices to enterprise infrastructure and large-scale AI cloud deployments…

At the Fortinet Accelerate 2026 user conference in Las Vegas, the keynote speeches focused on the need to transform security as the traditional boundaries of the enterprise are dissolving. As organizations rush to embrace generative AI, hybrid work, and cloud-first strategies, they are inadvertently expanding an attack surface that is now being exploited by agentic AI in the hands of threat actor…

Microsoft Research has developed MOSAIC, a MicroLED-based optical interconnect system for data centers that it estimates will use about 50% less energy than mainstream laser-based optical cables when deployed, the company said in a blog post . The figure is based on lab tests of the system combined with deployment estimates, Microsoft said in the post. MOSAIC was built at Microsoft’s Cambridge, U…

The infrastructure inflection point The artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure revolution has made an unlikely discipline suddenly relevant: thermodynamics. My perspective draws on a mechanical engineering background in advanced heat transfer, reinforced by a decade of leading data center transformations across Europe and ongoing conversations with technology executives navigating these chal…