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Extreme Networks is relying heavily on a number of key technologies—including its network fabric and cloud management portfolios to build toward the future—but more immediately, it is leaning on a system memory advantage, Wi-Fi 7 development and the changing competitive landscape to drive growth. For now momentum is represented as five consecutive quarters of double-digit financial growth—its mos…

American citizens and politicians alike have turned on the expansion of data centers in their communities with incredible rapidity. Data centers have gone from curiosities that few paid any attention to, to pariahs blame for ruining the local climate, driving up electric bills, and consuming way too much fresh water. Every day a new fight springs up on the Facebook group “ Say NO to Data Centers …

Artificial intelligence has had an immediate and profound impact on software development. Coding practices, coding tools, developer roles, and the software development process itself are all being reimagined as AI agents advance on every stage of the software development life cycle, from planning and design to testing, deployment, and maintenance. Download the May 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spo…

Churchill Downs may be best known for the Kentucky Derby’s two-minute spectacle, but behind the scenes, the historic venue is undergoing a network transformation that offers lessons for any enterprise grappling with massive scale, security complexity, and extreme demand variability. The company recently designated Cisco as its official partner for enterprise networking and network infrastructure …

Cash pay premiums for 663 IT certifications jumped sharply, posting their strongest quarterly jump in roughly a decade, according to new data from Foote Partners’ IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index . Conversely pay for 746 noncertified IT skills dropped 2.2% in Q1 2026, representing the steepest single-quarter decline since 2002, the data revealed. “The upheaval we’ve been seeing in bonuses f…

Quantum computers are prone to high error rates, so, to make qubits usable, a lot of redundancy is required. It typically takes hundreds—even thousands—of physical qubits to make one usable, “logical” qubit. This has been a major obstacle to the development of practical quantum computers . If thousands of qubits are needed for a quantum computer to do anything useful, and it takes a thousand phys…

HPE has expanded its Proliant server family with a trio of new boxes aimed at supporting distributed AI and other workloads in all manner of edge locations. The new servers include two Gen12-based boxes known as HPE ProLiant Compute EL2000 chassis and the HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server, all optimized for harsh or remote edge environments across branch offices, retail, manufacturing, factories, p…

A few years back, Bhaskar Ramachandran read the tea leaves and what he saw was clear: With all the enhancements hyperscalers continuous make, there was no value in having on-premises data centers any longer. “There is just no way for a private company to match that,” says Ramachandran, global vice president and CIO of paints and coatings manufacturer PPG. “This is their business, and they’re real…

Cisco has bolstered the security and AI control features in its latest release of SD-WAN software. The company rolled out Cisco SD-WAN 26.1.1 with a number of new features that, for example, let enterprise customers define security policies once and apply them consistently across the network, gain end-to-end visibility, and pivot from a traditional WAN to a high-performance, AI-ready fabric—all w…

New research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) suggests that the first wave of AI adoption—centered on chatbots and virtual assistants—is succumbing to an AI agent-driven model . In a survey of 458 IT professionals actively using AI in network operations, EMA found that just 15% prefer traditional chatbot-style interfaces. The same respondents also reported the lowest levels of success …

IT teams managing multi-vendor networks are dealing with a growing volume of alerts and a shrinking pool of engineers with the expertise to act on them. AI, and more specifically agentic AI, is increasingly being positioned as the approach to solve that challenge. The latest vendor to embrace agentic AI is Auvik, which has been building out a cloud-based IT and network management platform for the…

Security researchers have discovered a chilling backdoor aimed at Cisco System firewalls that exploits unpatched vulnerabilities to maintain persistence, even after patching. This means that attackers can continue to access compromised devices without re-exploiting the holes. At risk are devices running Cisco ASA or Firepower software, including certain Firepower and Secure Firewall devices. So f…

Cloud storage provider Backblaze has been ripping out its 100-gigabit links and replacing them with 400-gigabit links because AI has changed how traffic flows inside their data center. AI workloads running on neocloud providers like CoreWeave and Lambda are creating bursty, unpredictable flows that overwhelm traditional capacity planning models designed for traditional, steady-state cloud traffic…

AI is promising a lot these days, to change how we work, influence how we live, and transform network traffic . It’s interesting, exciting even, but suppose it’s all hype? Wall Street has been increasingly antsy about AI claims, and Nvidia is arguably in the spotlight of their fears, just as it’s in the spotlight of AI. Will our current AI model transform everything, including the financial fortu…

Ready to travel to gain hands-on experience with new networking and infrastructure tools? Tech conferences – in person and virtual – give attendees a chance to access product demos, network with peers, earn continuing education credits, and catch a celebrity keynote or live entertainment. Check out our calendar of upcoming network, I&O, and data center conferences, and let us know if we’re missin…