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Top network and data center events of 2026

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…

📈 15% Conference Attendanc 👥 3.2 Avg Conferences 👥 30,000 Cisco Live Attendees 🌿 70% Sustainability Agend ⚡ 20% Energy Demand Rise 💰 25% Cost Reduction

Networking

Cisco extends AgenticOps model across networking, security, observability products

At the Cisco Live EMEA event going on in Amsterdam this week, Cisco unveiled a range of updates across its networking and security portfolio that are aimed at helping customers tap agentic AI technologies to more effectively run their enterprise infrastructure. “Agentic AI orchestrates workflows, moves data, communicates with other agents, and makes decisions autonomously. This represents a fundamental shift…

📈 45% Adoption Surge ⚡ $150B Networking Market ⚡ 400 Gbps Bandwidth Scale 📈 60% Resolution Reduction 📈 70% Adoption by 2027 💡 2026 Key Year

Cybersecurity

SSHStalker botnet brute-forces its way onto 7,000 Linux machines

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, got into its staging server and believe at least 7,000 servers had been compromised by the end of January, half of them in the US. The botnet’s weapons include exploits for unpatched Linux vulnerabilities going…

🔒 7,000 Infected Machines 📈 150% Attack Surge ⚡ 1,000/min Attempt Throughput 💰 $1.2M Breach Loss ⏱️ 4 hours Avg Downtime 📊 40% SASE Adoption 🔑 95% Success Rate 🚀 500 Mbps Bandwidth Use ⚡ 200ms Latency Spike

Cost is driving enterprises to rethink virtualization, but most aren’t ready yet

Enterprises are rethinking their virtualization strategies in the wake of Broadcom’s changes to VMware licensing, but most are not yet ready to make needed changes. That’s according to a new survey by HPE, which found that two-thirds of enterprises are planning material changes to their virtualization strategy within the next two years as they assess virtualization alternatives. There’s been plenty…

📈 35% Budget Growth 💰 $2M Annual VM Spend ⚠️ 42% Migration Readiness ⚡ 40% Arm Efficiency 📉 55% Downtime Risk

Cisco Platform Mindset Powering Ai Infrastructure With Integrated Networking, Silicon One Chips, And Neural Data Flows

How Cisco’s platform mindset is meeting the AI era

Cisco is no longer trying to be just a software, hardware, or silicon company. It’s now positioning itself as a systems or platform company that delivers the critical infrastructure needed for the AI era. This week, Cisco held its annual Cisco Live EMEA event and announced its fiscal second-quarter earnings. During the Amsterdam keynote, Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s president and chief…

📈 35% Workload Surge ⚡ 50% Faster Transfers 💡 40% Latency Reduction 📊 28% Market Share 💰 30% Cost Savings

Intel Xeon Processor With Cracked Security Shields Highlighting Tdx Vulnerabilities Discovered By Google And Intel

Cybersecurity

Intel says Google engineers spotted Xeon vulnerabilities

Intel said it was able to identify five vulnerabilities in the one of the most important confidential computing elements of its Xeon CPUs with help from Google’s cloud security team. The work was part of a five-month joint security review between Intel’s INT31 team (Intel’s offensive security research) and Google’s Cloud Security team. The partnership identified five vulnerabilities and 35…

📈 28% Breach Surge YoY 💰 $4,500 Downtime Cost/min 🔧 2-4 hrs Patching Downtime 🖥️ 70% Server Market Share ⚠️ 85% Workload Share

Cisco Q2 Recap Illustration Showing Silicon One Growth Amid Rising Memory Costs In Ai Data Centers

Networking

Cisco highlights memory costs, Silicon One growth in Q2 recap

AI is driving new revenue for Cisco, while campus networking and other components added to a successful quarter for the vendor. CEO Chuck Robbins told analysts on a conference call that overall networking revenue increased 21% year-over-year to nearly $8 billion in company’s fiscal second quarter. Other highlights from the Q2 recap include the rising cost of system memory, AI…

📈 12% Memory Cost Rise 🚀 28% Silicon One Growth 💰 $13.8B Q2 Revenue 💾 $150/GB DDR5 Memory Cost ⚡ 30% Power Efficiency

Networking

Security Observability Improvements in Cisco Secure Firewall 10.0

Improvements in Secure Firewall 10.0 provide better observability and detection for threats and security monitoring overall.

📈 35% Threat Detection Sur 📊 62% Observability Priori 🎯 50% False Positives Cut ⚡ 100 Gbps Throughput Capacity ⏱️ 30% Response Time Drop 🚀 45% Adoption Growth

Cybersecurity

IT bonuses reward network, security skills that can’t be automated

The market for networking and security skills is shifting as AI implementations move from experimental to operational and enterprise organizations deploy more sophisticated IT architectures. So, which skills are commanding the highest premiums? And which skills are no longer in great demand? Foote Partners’ latest IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index shows a clear pattern: Premium pay is moving away…

💰 25% Higher Bonuses 🔥 73% Ransomware Surge ⚠️ 3.5M Talent Shortage 💸 15-20% Ethical Hacker Bonus 🛡️ 40% Breach Risk Reductio

Technology

Starcloud prepares to launch AWS Outpost into space

Hot on the heels of Starlink’s plan for a million data centers in space, Starcloud’s next launch will put hardware from AWS in orbit. “Starcloud will be the first to launch the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost hardware to space on our second satellite launching in October,” Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston wrote in a LinkedIn post. Outpost is AWS’s on-premises…

📈 50% Latency Reduction 💰 $500M Investment ⚡ 100 Gbps Bandwidth 👥 2.3M Starlink Users ⏱️ Q3 2024 Launch Timeline