Tag: agentic AI

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

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

In the agentic era, standing privilege must go: Key thoughts from the SailPoint Navigate keynote

For most of its two-decade history, SailPoint Inc. has been the company that tells enterprises who should have access to what. At Navigate 2026 in Austin this week, it argued that it now needs to be the company that stops the wrong access the moment it happens. The keynote opened with an orchestra to illustrate the harmony that emerges when discrete components work together.

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In the agentic era, standing privilege must go: Key thoughts from the SailPoint Navigate keynote