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Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations , multicloud networking, zero trust network access ( ZTNA ), and SD-WAN . Here’s a recap of some of the latest industry research, hiring statistics, and certification trends that impact today’s network professionals, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders, and data center…

Cisco today unveiled a prototype switch it says will significantly accelerate the timeline for practical, distributed, quantum-computing-based networks. Cisco’s Universal Quantum Switch is designed to connect quantum systems from different vendors, such as IBM, IonQ, Google and Rigetti, in all major qubit encoding technologies, at room temperature, and over standard telecom fiber, according to Vi…

The advent of artificial intelligence — and in particular dedicated AI data centers — has meant that data movement over the network is more important than ever, as processing of inference and large language model training consumes terabytes of data stored in data centers the size of a football stadium. Not only that, but there is now an increasing effort to tie together distant data centers into …

An exhaustive study by the Financial Times has found that almost half of all data centers projected to open this year are going to be at least three months late if they make it at all. The Financial Times drew upon satellite imagery from the geospatial data analytics company SynMax and cross-checked project progress against public statements and permit documents compiled by the industry research …

For those who spend their days keeping packets flowing and links secure, you may have noticed this year’s RSAC 2026 conference felt very different. RSA has historically been a CISO-centric event, but this year it was clear that networking and security engineering teams are now on the front lines of every AI-driven risk conversation. Over the past several years, the classic perimeter has dissolved…

Google on Tuesday unveiled two distinct eighth‑generation TPUs, one for training and one for inference, reviving a split‑chip strategy as cloud providers race to tailor AI hardware to sharply different performance and cost demands. The company has experimented with differentiated TPU variants before, notably with its fifth-generation V5p and V5e chips , but recent generations such as Trillium and…

SUSE is targeting enterprises weighing their VMware options with a new partnership that promises zero-downtime, automated migrations at scale. The open-source infrastructure company has announced a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions to integrate the Coriolis migration tool into its SUSE Virtualization stack. The aim is to remove the manual effort that has kept many enterprises on VMware despite…

The promise of microsegmentation has always been about reducing the attack surface in a bid to lower risk. In the modern era of AI agents, existing methods of network segmentation might not be enough anymore, according to Zero Networks. The company, which was founded in 2019, built its platform around the argument that existing microsegmentation tools demand too much manual effort to be practical…

A high-severity authentication flaw in Microsoft’s Azure SRE Agent exposed sensitive agent data to unauthorized network access, according to a confirmed vulnerability disclosure. The issue was identified by Enclave AI researcher Yanir Tsarimi, who detailed the findings in a blog post describing how agent interactions could be accessed without proper authentication controls. The vulnerability has …

Amazon on Monday said it was investing an additional $5 billion in Anthropic, a move that analysts say is aimed as much at easing the AI startup’s growing infrastructure bottlenecks as at deepening their strategic partnership. As part of the deal, Anthropic will lock in up to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity across AWS’s Trainium chips, including the new Trainium 3 and upcoming Trainium 4, the com…

As organizations push AI agents from pilots into production, a common problem has surfaced: the networking and access models built for humans do not work for autonomous software. During its Agents Week event , Cloudflare released multiple services aimed at that problem. Together, they represent the company’s effort to extend its network infrastructure layer to cover autonomous software as a first…

The wireless networking talent shortage has become more than a hiring challenge. It is now a major driver of operational risk, security exposure, and rising incident costs, just as enterprise networks grow more complex. According to Cisco’s State of Wireless 2026 report, 86% of organizations are struggling to hire qualified wireless professionals. The same teams are being asked to support expandi…

Cisco admins are scrambling to patch a critical flash memory overflow vulnerability in over 200 Cisco Systems IOS XE-based models of wireless access points (APs), caused by a recent flawed software update. If the issue is not corrected quickly, the AP’s memory will become so flooded that new software updates will be blocked and the AP rendered insecure, or possibly even bricked. The problematic l…

Has IPv6 finally reached its day of glory? It’s fair to say that IPv6 has not had the level of take-up expected when the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified it back in 1998. Take-up has been agonizingly slow, not reaching 5 percent of traffic until 2014. However, the use of IPv6 has been slowly climbing since, and according to Google statistics, briefly accounted for 50.1% of the inte…

A partnership between Broadcom and Meta could benefit other datacenter operators, as the networking company hones its expertise for supporting AI development. Meta is developing its own in-house AI chips for its exclusive use, and has extended an agreement with Broadcom to support that infrastructure, an agreement that will also provide Broadcom with the know-how to ramp up its expertise in AI ne…