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The agentic AI era is forcing security and resilience into a single discipline

For two decades, security and data resilience have been neighbors who share a fence but rarely a budget. Security kept bad actors out, while resilience brought the business back when they got in. Agentic artificial intelligence is tearing down that fence, yet most organizations haven’t noticed. Last year, I wrote that Veeam Software Group GmbH’s acquisition of Securiti AI positioned it as the industry’s first AI resiliency company. At VeeamON 2026 in May, the company foreshadowed what that would look like.

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The agentic AI era is forcing security and resilience into a single discipline

Intel bets the next phase of AI belongs to the rightsized system, not the biggest one

For three years, artificial intelligence infrastructure has been dominated by one idea: Bigger is better. Bigger models, bigger clusters, and bigger checks written to a small group of suppliers. At this week’s Open Compute Project Global Summit, Intel Corp. argued that the next phase of AI will look very different and that Intel is well-positioned to benefit.

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Intel bets the next phase of AI belongs to the rightsized system, not the biggest one

Cisco’s OCP message: The network is now AI’s critical path, and openness is the price of admission

For most of its history, Cisco Systems Inc. won by building vertically integrated network products and asking customers to buy all of it. The company did very well with that model. Security, meanwhile, was something Cisco sold as a separate product line rather than something that was inherent to its infrastructure. Patching a core switch meant scheduling a maintenance window, crossing your fingers and hoping nothing broke.

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Cisco’s OCP message: The network is now AI’s critical path, and openness is the price of admission

Mitel WX bets next phase of unified communications will be won on the floor, not in the meeting room

For the better part of my 30-year career as an analyst, unified communications has been designed around the person at a desk, bouncing between meetings, chat and email. That made sense when the pandemic pushed everyone onto video. It makes far less sense when roughly 80% of the global workforce doesn’t sit at a desk at all.

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Mitel WX bets next phase of unified communications will be won on the floor, not in the meeting room

At WebexOne, Cisco’s Jeetu Patel argues the agent era will be won on context, cost and control

For as long as Cisco Systems Inc. has held its WebexOne event, the show has aimed to drive thought leadership in the collaboration industry. This year, with artificial intelligence on tap, it had its fair share of unified communications and contact center. But more importantly, it was somewhat of a coming-out party for the “new Cisco,” which consolidated much of its historically sprawling portfolio into a single AI platform, with Webex as the place where people and agents meet.

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At WebexOne, Cisco’s Jeetu Patel argues the agent era will be won on context, cost and control