Cisco’s move to buy Galileo and—reportedly—Astrix Security is less about filling product gaps and more about rearchitecting how AI is governed, secured, and trusted across the enterprise stack. Taken together, these deals signal Cisco’s intent to lead the AI era the way it once led the internet—by making the underlying infrastructure observable, identity-aware, and inherently secure. From AI features to AI…
Two completely separate reports indicate data center construction is moving toward the center of the country and away from the coasts. The first report comes courtesy of Synergy Research Group, which found the center of gravity for planning and building data centers is shifting away from some of the traditional coastal locations and moving inland, with the availability and cost…
ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, including our reports…
Despite widespread adoption of defensive measures, most IT professionals believe their DNS infrastructure is not secure enough. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently published DDI Directions 2026, a market research report that explores enterprise strategies for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI). In that report, only 28% of DDI experts said they believe that their DNS infrastructure is completely secure.…
We are now entering the era of fault-tolerant quantum computing. The computers are getting better. The qubits are getting faster and more reliable, and there are more of them. NIST published its list of quantum-safe encryption algorithms, and now enterprises are racing to upgrade their encryption before Q-day, the quantum apocalypse that will make the previous generation of encryption protocols…
In the space of one week, OpenAI has pulled out of two European Stargate data center deals, one in the UK and the second in Norway. Observers attribute the move to the company taking a more disciplined approach to its massive expenses, with OpenAI executives trying to make their books look better in a common move among companies preparing to…
A new report from SolarWinds finds that artificial intelligence is reshaping IT roles, with 80% of professionals reporting a shift away from hands-on operations toward overseeing automated systems and workflows. IT practitioners are increasingly taking on orchestration responsibilities as organizations expand their use of AI-driven tools and automation, according to the 2026 SolarWinds IT Trends Report: The Human Side of…
Equinix has introduced Fabric Intelligence, a service designed to automate and optimize network infrastructure as enterprises scale artificial intelligence workloads across multiple distributed locations. The new platform addresses a growing gap between AI applications, which depend on real-time connectivity across clouds, data centers, and edge locations, and legacy network architectures built around static configurations, ticket-driven workflows, and scheduled change windows,…
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Security and resiliency are prerequisites for the agentic enterprise Every major technology wave eventually forces a rethink; in the AI era, that rethink starts with the network. This week at Cisco Live, AI has been a central theme, reshaping applications, operations, and security. But a more foundational shift is underway: the enterprise network itself is […]