4+ hour, 44+ min ago   (895+ words) Network operations teams face a flood of AI-powered tools promising simplified management through natural language interfaces.Many amount to conversational wrappers around existing capabilities, offering convenience but not fundamental changes to how networks are managed and verified. That's what Forward…...

14+ hour ago   (307+ words) System outages plagued organizations of all sizes in 2025, with major incidents exposing vulnerabilities across network infrastructure and the IT dependencies that define today's distributed environments, according to the latest Internet outage report from Cisco ThousandEyes. The network intelligence vendor's recap…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (550+ words) Network visibility gaps are expanding as enterprises deploy more distributed infrastructure, while at the same time, certificate lifespans are shrinking. Netscout Systems is addressing these gaps with two additions to its nGeniusONE observability platform, announced this week. The company now…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (728+ words) For years, CSOs have worried about their IT infrastructure being used for unauthorized cryptomining. Now, say researchers, they'd better start worrying about crooks hijacking and reselling access to exposed corporate AI infrastructure. In a report released Wednesday, researchers at Pillar…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (672+ words) The Carrier Ethernet market is undergoing a significant shift as AI workloads demand new performance validation from network infrastructure." Mplify, the alliance formerly known as MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum), is responding with a dual certification strategy that preserves decades of…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (735+ words) The tried and true enterprise WAN market is undergoing a shift and consolidating around a new architecture class. AI workloads and hybrid cloud deployments are exposing the operational costs of managing separate control planes for connectivity, security, and application delivery....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (431+ words) Only 35% of enterprise IT organizations have been completely successful with applying AI to network management, according to new research on AI-driven NetOps strategies from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). We surveyed 458 IT professionals for the report (AI-Driven NetOps: How Enterprises are…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (822+ words) Network and security teams managing enterprise applications face two emerging challenges: AI security and multi-cloud operations. F5 is addressing both with product announcements that extend its Application Delivery and Security Platform into AI runtime protection and multicloud managed services. The company…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (972+ words) Network assurance is critical to modern IT operations, but sophisticated hybrid environments create visibility gaps that impact troubleshooting, compliance validation and change management. As enterprises layer cloud services alongside traditional networks, multiple vendors are working to solve this challenge, and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1246+ words) Cisco set a high bar for itself in the new year after a prolific 2025. Last year, Cisco refreshed its core switching and router portfolios, adding new software capabilities for the data center in 2025. It also made a number of AI…...