Sean Michael Kerner

Enterprise AI infrastructure spending is surging as analysts warn network automation, infrastructure maturity, and skills aren’t keeping pace.

After Broadcom pulls VDDK, FluidCloud moves VMware disks with NFC export instead.

Data platforms make decisions all day. An SQL query keeps the rows over a threshold, matches a keyword, and joins two tables on a shared ID. A pipeline sends a failed job down a retry path. Rules like these work when the answer sits in the data in a clean form.

Falling token prices have led many enterprises to assume AI costs will fall with them. Agents are breaking that assumption.

Enterprise IT leaders face potential challenges in the wake of President Trump's recent policy changes regarding the H-1B work visa. Is the future of your tech workforce at stake?

Meta is carving out an enterprise offering after years of consumer-first focus. How seriously should IT leaders evaluate Meta as an enterprise vendor?

The UEC got its start in 2023 to help improve Ethernet for the growing needs of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) networks. The consortium published its 1.0 specification in June 2025. That release defined a transport protocol, congestion control mechanisms and a modern remote direct memory access (RDMA) approach. With UEC 1.1, the specification is adding scale-up support, in-network collectives, and programmable congestion control.

New platform capabilities are on display at the NetBox Evolve conference, where NetBox Labs also announced partnerships with Nvidia and Grafana Labs.

When the internet's domain system started back in 1985, there were only a few primary TLDs: .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov and .mil. The number of TLDs grew in small fits and spurts until 2012, when 1,241 new gTLDs were added. The internet has changed over the last 14 years, and now ICANN is opening up the process for the next round of new gTLD, which could bring 1,600 new names to the internet.

Upscale stitches silicon, systems, and software together with its new Token Fabric offering. The architecture combines the company's own SkyFabriX scale-up silicon, scale-out systems built on Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet, and a common software layer for operations.

Stacklet's early-preview Token Custodian brings policy controls to AI spending, raising a question for CIOs: Who decides which work gets access to more expensive AI models?

Nearly twice as many companies now name live-system queries as their AI agents' main context source. OpenAI, Keewano and Snowflake supply the missing context differently.

Executives present a unique security vulnerability. White-glove security training provides personalized strategies against impersonation, deepfake and spear phishing attacks.

Cohere is going after two common enterprise agent problems with North 2, the new version of its enterprise agent platform. It adds user quotas, rate limits, organization-wide caps and a redesigned agent harness. According to Cohere, North 2 uses memory to keep an agent's context across sessions and gives teams a shared library of knowledge and assets to draw on. It also runs in the cloud, on premises or fully air-gapped.

One title, many jobs: CISOs at Fastly, SolarWinds, DeVry and other organizations reveal how industry shapes their responsibilities and priorities.

Security and IT leaders say the AI extinction headlines are reshaping the conversation more than the controls.

New Selector Foundry runtime environment lets network operations teams build, test, version, and govern their own AI agents inside the company's NetOps platform.

AI agents stand in for users and reach multiple systems. Governing their access requires distinct identities, scoped authority and records that show who authorized each action.

AI extinction concerns are growing among experts, but for enterprises, the focus should be on governance, accountability and risk management to prevent operational failures.

A failed Senate cloture vote stalled the CLARITY Act, leaving CIOs to make digital-asset vendor, custody and contract decisions without a broader market-structure framework.