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Particle entanglement, superposition and teleportation are key concepts in quantum physics. Einstein famously dismissed such phenomena as “spooky action at a distance.” Quantum computing is the nascent field of technology bringing that spookiness to life, but it is quantum networking that will actually enable quantum computing to be useful by connecting multiple systems together. According to Cis…

Cloud computing has reached a crossroads. The high cost and data sensitivity of AI workloads are raising the appeal of private clouds, even as neoclouds and sovereign clouds shake up the cloud provider landscape. New cyberthreats, shifting compute requirements, and management complexity are adding to cloud complications. Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of…

As is typical of Cisco , the company made several product announcements at its flagship event, Cisco Live . The most significant product announcement is Cisco Cloud Control, which recognizes that customers do not run separate Cisco products; they run one sprawling, interconnected environment that must be monitored, secured, and increasingly operated with AI at machine speed. That is what Cisco Cl…

Four years ago, when Broadcom announced plans to buy VMware, analysts recommended that enterprises start looking for an exit strategy based on Broadcom’s less-than-stellar track record with prior acquisitions. The fear was that Broadcom would raise prices, reduce support, and stop investing in the technology. Some of those concerns have come to pass. Broadcom eliminated perpetual licenses, forced…

Netskope this week launched AI Command Center, a new offering in its Netskope One secure access service edge (SASE) platform that gives enterprises a centralized way to discover, assess, and respond to risks associated with AI applications, models, and autonomous agents. AI Command Center provides visibility into both approved and unsanctioned AI services across an organization, helping security …

For much of the past decade, enterprise networking was something the industry tried to abstract away. Cloud-first architectures commoditized switching and routing, burying them under software-defined layers. AI infrastructure has reversed that trajectory. Tom Gillis , senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s infrastructure and security group, has a theory about why, and it starts with…

Cisco built the networking infrastructure that underpins the internet and the cloud. At Cisco Live this week, the company is making its case to hold that same position as enterprises shift from AI chatbots to autonomous agents. Where chatbots answer questions, agents take actions: They execute tasks, call tools, make changes, and operate continuously at machine speed. That changes the requirement…

A Palo Alto Networks vulnerability that allows attackers to establish unauthorized VPN access into corporate networks is being actively exploited in the wild, weeks after the company disclosed the flaw as a medium-severity issue and said it was unaware of any attacks. However, according to Rapid7, threat actors began exploiting the bug within days of disclosure. “Rapid7 MDR identified successful …

Microsoft continues to face scrutiny over its alleged antitrust practices, with new details coming to light about what, exactly, the federal government is investigating about the tech giant. According to new information revealed by The Verge , the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is gathering information about Microsoft’s business agreements, licensing arrangements, and the interoperability of i…

As the DRAM shortage continues with no end in sight, China-based ChangXing Memory Technologies (CXMT) is taking advantage of an opportunity to grow its base. Until now, CXMT has sold its products in China to lesser-known brands of memory sticks. But recently, its memory was found on a DDR5 DIMM from Corsair, a major consumer memory brand. And the company is preparing to go public, hoping to raise…

Broadcom and Samsung Electronics are collaborating on a new, broadband-optimized reference platform for the global fixed wireless access (FWA) market, integrating Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 8 System-on-Chip (SoC) with Samsung’s 5G modem. The platform unifies 3GPP Release 17 connectivity — a major update to the global 5G standard — with the emerging Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) standard. Development of Wi-Fi 8 i…

Intel hopes its latest chips will resolve AI-related power efficiency and cost concerns even as rivals AMD and Nvidia turn up their power consumption to deliver higher performance. The company introduced a flagship Xeon 6+ CPU, a new GPU called Crescent Island, and a new Ethernet controller on Monday. These are the first major data-center releases since Lip-Bu Tan became CEO in March last year. I…

Meta has raised the possibility that it could be joining the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in offering cloud services at some point in the future — although potential customers shouldn’t be adding the company to their suppliers list just yet. When asked about plans for offering such services at the company’s annual shareholders meeting, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said there was a possibilit…

Zero trust is 15 years old, and like many teenagers, it can feel misunderstood and underappreciated. The concept of zero trust was first defined by John Kindervag , a Forrester analyst at the time, as a strategy to replace the outmoded perimeter security model with a “never trust, always verify” approach. But going from principle to practice isn’t easy. Accenture reports that 88% of organizations…

South Korean semiconductor giant SK Hynix has announced a new type of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI datacenters that improves heat dissipation by integrating a cooling layer within the memory package itself. The change could allow AI processors incorporating the new memory to run faster, or reduce cooling costs. Traditional chip cooling architectures are largely external; heat dissipation ha…