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3 things to know from NetApp Insight 2026
The news from NetApp's annual conference highlighted agentic AI's impact on data storage. Here's what enterprise IT decision-makers can take away from these announcements.
Scott Sinclair • Oct. 9, 2026 -
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AgenticOps becomes a priority in IT infrastructure purchases
Omdia research shows that many orgs are modernizing their IT infrastructure to speed AI adoption or making built-in AI capabilities a must-have for new infrastructure investments.
Scott Sinclair • Oct. 2, 2026 -
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How the ‘Great Storage Squeeze’ impacts infrastructure strategies
AI's storage and memory demand is outpacing the supply, and a majority of organizations are feeling the effects, according to Omdia research. Here's how IT leaders are responding.
Simon Robinson • Sept. 30, 2026 -
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Lenovo extends virtualization support as AI complicates decisions
As many organizations look to replace their primary hypervisor, IT leaders must balance optimizing for their AI strategy while minimizing disruption to legacy VM-based environments.
Scott Sinclair • Sept. 21, 2026 -
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Beyond the hype: A strategic AI roadmap to tangible returns
For organizations investing in AI projects, realizing ROI can be rife with obstacles. These three tips can help leaders define and find success in their enterprise AI initiatives.
Scott Sinclair • Sept. 18, 2026 -
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Splunk .conf26: Context, control for Cisco’s AI agents at scale
With its Splunk integration, Cisco shows how organizations can prepare enterprise platforms for AI agents by adding context for informed decisions and control over agent actions.
Torsten Volk • Sept. 17, 2026 -
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Mistral’s €3B round shows value beyond AI benchmarks
Mistral’s record €3 billion funding round highlights the enterprise value of AI models that customers can deploy, customize, retain and control.
Torsten Volk • Sept. 8, 2026 -
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Balancing infrastructure priorities for AI integration
AI adoption can expose weaknesses across the enterprise. A strategic approach to infrastructure modernization can help organizations manage risk, efficiency and long-term growth.
Hardik Chawla • Aug. 19, 2026 -
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Does Claude’s watermark solve the AI transparency problem?
Anthropic now watermarks text generated or processed by Claude. Here's how the hidden pattern works, its limitations and why the approach has drawn criticism.
Ariella Brown • Aug. 18, 2026 -
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Build, buy or rent: A framework for enterprise AI infrastructure
AI infrastructure decisions hinge on utilization, workload maturity, data and timelines. Most enterprises will get the best results with a hybrid approach.
Madhu Babu Kola • July 28, 2026 -
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Networking takes center stage at HPE Discover 2026
HPE unveils AI-focused networking strategy at Discover 2026, emphasizing Juniper integration, Agentic Mesh and new data center hardware platforms.
Jim Frey • June 24, 2026 -
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HPE Discover 2026: Lessons in optimizing AI economics
HPE Discover 2026 highlighted four ways to improve AI ROI: modernize networks, control token costs, automate IT ops and reduce legacy infrastructure expenses.
Scott Sinclair • June 24, 2026 -
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7 highlights from Pure Accelerate 2026
Fresh off a major rebranding, Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), rolled out a promising collection of new capabilities aimed at helping admins focus on adding business value.
Danny Alvarez, Contributor • June 22, 2026 -
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DASH 2026: Datadog goes from watching code to writing it
Bits Code turns Datadog's telemetry into pull requests, which raises an important question: Who owns the code your monitoring vendor writes?
Torsten Volk • June 10, 2026 -
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Should you migrate, modernize to hybrid cloud or multi-cloud?
Cloud migration and modernization are essential for survival. While hybrid and multi-cloud architectures present critical challenges, there are ways to overcome them.
Kaushik Vemulapalli • June 10, 2026 -
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Cisco advances AI infrastructure services at Cisco Live
Cisco Live 2026 showcased advancements in AI infrastructure, emphasizing AI-ready data centers, digital resilience and the new Cisco Cloud Control for better management.
Jim Frey • June 9, 2026 -
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Dell Technologies World responds to the four winds of AI
AI's rapid adoption is fundamentally transforming enterprise IT infrastructure. Learn how Dell is responding to these changes from its announcements at Dell Technologies World.
Scott Sinclair • June 8, 2026 -
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Turning data into intelligence for the AI native era
Dell addresses AI implementation challenges -- data differentiation, hybrid workloads, token costs and infrastructure flexibility -- through its expanded AI portfolio.
Simon Robinson • May 26, 2026 -
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Preparing for the vital but complex era of AI
AI is becoming essential, but its complexity pushes businesses to modernize legacy systems, consolidate platforms and expand AI-driven automation.
Scott Sinclair • May 26, 2026 -
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How AI innovation is driving network observability tool churn
Network managers want more from their observability tools and are looking at agentic AI to give them the flexibility and oversight they need.
Shamus McGillicuddy • May 21, 2026 -
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Why hybrid cloud is becoming the default for AI
AI workloads are reshaping cloud strategies. Hybrid cloud is no longer transitional -- it's a structural necessity for AI, driven by latency, governance and cost constraints.
Varun Raj • April 30, 2026 -
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The storage modernization imperative in a fast-changing IT landscape
As IT leaders push for storage modernization, Omdia study finds 80% of IT leaders believe it critical to IT effectiveness for five of the following reasons.
Simon Robinson • April 28, 2026 -
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Network engineers must take the lead to push DDI to the cloud
DDI can help network engineers break through the silos that separate cloud and on-premises network management. But engineers have to make sure IT executives understand why.
Shamus McGillicuddy • April 22, 2026 -
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SUSECON 2026: The push to operationalize AI
At SUSECON 2026, SUSE outlined a sovereignty-driven strategy for AI and infrastructure, pairing agentic operations with partnerships spanning NVIDIA, Switch and Cloudbase.
Torsten Volk • April 22, 2026 -
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Comparing DevOps vs. Agile vs. Waterfall methodologies
DevOps, Agile and Waterfall offer distinct approaches to software delivery, varying in speed, flexibility, risk management and suitability based on project needs and goals.
Brien Posey • April 21, 2026
