3 articles that week
Networkworld, Sunday, January 11th, 2026
Forrester Consulting study finds that organizations have faced six key challenges with traditional IT management tools and quantifies the tangible benefits of a comprehensive, cloud-native platform.
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Cisco, Thursday, January 8th, 2026
In my last two blogs, I delved into the results of the 2025 Cisco Segmentation Report to highlight the importance of macro- and micro-segmentation and to identify the primary challenges hindering segmentation journeys.
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Cisco, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
AI workloads are fundamentally different from traditional enterprise applications. Training and inference at scale introduce sustained high-density compute, extreme east-west traffic, and unprecedented power and cooling demands. For many organizations, this is not an upgrade cycle - it is a structural redesign.
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