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Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
A new global survey of IT professionals can be summed up in one unfortunate truth: enterprise systems remain largely stable, but the overworked people running them are feeling the strain.
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Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
Enterprises are accelerating their investment in AI, but many leaders acknowledge they are moving faster than their organizations can safely manage.
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Despite their similarities, an MCP Server is not an API Gateway, Microsoft engineers advise. It can do so much more, so let it. Slapping a protocol wrapper over an internal API may be a tempting shortcut to quickly build a MCP server, but the end product may only flummox an agent by offering too many choices, which would lead to context confusion, and subpar results
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Modern AI factories aren't bottlenecked by GPUs anymore; they're bottlenecked by the networks feeding them. At AIIFD4, Xsight made a compelling case that fixed-function silicon can't keep up with AI-era requirements, and then backed it up with real deployments, shipping products, and verified performance numbers.
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At AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 (AIIFD4), one message was unmistakable: the AI era is being shaped by data, and storage is finally taking center stage. Whether you work in data center operations or you're charting an AI strategy at the executive level, you already feel the pressure.
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In the middle of a busy warehouse, a robot pauses. It's not because the battery is dead or the route is blocked. It's because the wireless signal dipped for a fraction of a second while it was switching between access points.
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Drawing on Nokia Bell Labs' reliability model, Mitch Ashley and Scott Robohn show why configuration, automation, and disciplined operations - not just infrastructure - are the real levers behind five-nines data center availability.
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Western Digital is laying out an ambitious hard disk drive roadmap, signaling its belief that spinning media will remain a core part of AI infrastructure well into the next decade. At its Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital detailed a multi-year strategy built around HDD capacity increases, significant gains in performance, lower power consumption, and a software layer designed to simplify deployment at scale.
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Artificial intelligence is no longer just reshaping compute infrastructure, it is now fundamentally altering how data moves across networks. That's the central conclusion of Backblaze's Q4 2025 Network Stats report, which draws on real-world production traffic to reveal how AI workloads are driving new trends in network traffic.
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A few months back, when Satya Nadella suggested that SaaS was dead, or at least dying, plenty of people dismissed it as provocation. Bold, maybe. Wrong, definitely. Except here we are. And the stock market, which has a habit of cutting through comfortable narratives, seems to be nodding along.
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Learn how Nokia IT modernized complex brownfield data centers without downtime by applying software-engineering discipline, automation, and digital twins to network operations.
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Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
Wi-Fi 7 is set for fast adoption, with industry research firm Dell'Oro Group saying enterprise buying of Wi-Fi 7 gear has climbed sharply since early 2025. Dell'Oro characterizes current Wi-Fi 7 pricing as unusually low, providing an adoption boost that could compress refresh cycles for businesses relying on Wi-Fi 6 and 6E.
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Based on a global survey of enterprise IT leaders, Mitch Ashley and Scott Robohn explore why reliability has overtaken cost, performance, and features as the foundation of modern, AI-driven data center networking.
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The global data intelligence, analytics, and infrastructure (DIAI) market is projected to grow at a 17% compound annual growth rate through 2028 off a base of $541.1 billion in 2026 to exceed $1.2 trillion by 2031, according to a forecast published today by the Futurum Group.
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To understand 2026, let's start with what happened in 2025. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud didn't just grow; they grew at scale. Combined, they crossed well north of $300B in annual cloud revenue, still expanding around 20-30% year over year.
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Three years ago, I sat in a conference room watching a vendor demo 'self-healing infrastructure' that would 'eliminate downtime forever'. Fast forward to today, and I'm still getting paged for the same EC2 instance running out of memory.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 16th, 2026
As many organizations expedite the adoption of cloud, a single question consistently dominates the leadership table: Should cloud be treated purely as another data center with centralized control? Or should teams be fully authorized with guardrails?
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Organizations today generate unprecedented volumes of data as AI systems, analytics engines, automation frameworks and digital workflows continue to expand. Yet, despite the rapid growth in data creation, the fundamental behavior of enterprise data has not changed.
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A new survey has found that infrastructure complexity, rather than technological capability, has become the primary obstacle preventing enterprises from successfully scaling artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives.
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At the intersection of security and operations, we're seeing a new discipline emerge. Commvault calls it ResOps, a blend of DevOps, SecOps, and FinOps with a wide view over the business's applications and data.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 9th, 2026
Edge computing isn't about putting a small computer in a remote location and hoping for the best. It's a complete shift in how we handle applications and data, especially when you start talking about Edge AI.
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Every year when we host Predict, I ask myself the same question before we finalize the agenda. What will truly matter to leaders in the year ahead?
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Adopting a multi-cloud approach is an imperative for organizations in today's fast-paced competitive environment to boost their business agility. A multi-cloud strategy is defined as one in which an organization depends on multiple cloud vendors or providers.
more → Techstrong.IT, Thursday, January 8th, 2026
AI continues to reshape infrastructure priorities, driving conversations about how organizations can meet the compute and performance needs of these increasingly powerful applications. However, behind every breakthrough model lies a hidden and growing challenge - storing the massive volumes of unstructured data that AI needs, consumes and creates.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
Data analytics is one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing segments of the technology landscape. Driven by the need to process and interpret huge volumes of varied data, companies are increasingly investing in business intelligence, data visualization and AI-powered analytics tools.
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Amazon Web Services has implemented a roughly 15% price increase on some of its most powerful GPU-based EC2 Capacity Block instances, a move that will ripple through enterprise machine learning budgets and may even cause concerns about the future direction of cloud pricing.
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Cloud migration is a challenging process for many companies, as they try to move apps, data and processes from on-premises data centers to cloud providers without impacting customers, analysts and IT processes in terms of security and privacy.
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Just over a year ago, Red Hat made the decision to remove broad access to one of the most trusted Linux source code repositories. It wasn't a security failure or a technical breakdown, but it did mark a turning point for enterprise open source.
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Data protection is critical in business partnerships, particularly when handling IT asset disposition and decommissioning. Increasingly, technology partners, such as IT asset disposition (ITAD) companies, are reluctant to take ownership of previously deployed devices that may still contain sensitive data, fearing potential liability if a breach occurs.
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Cloud service providers offer highly specialized services, requiring enterprises to onboard two or more partners to access innovation, proprietary technical capabilities and best-fit solutions.
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IT-Techstrong.IT, Thursday, January 1st, 2026
Atlas Data Storage, having been spun off from parent company Twist Bioscience, is a pioneering startup focused on creating enterprise data storage applications based the unique properties of synthetic DNA.
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The race to Superintelligence is officially underway. Large language models (LLMs) and multimodal AI tools have already transformed how we work, interact and build.
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History has a funny way of repeating itself. Empires always look invincible - until they don't. The British Navy once ruled the seas. IBM mainframes once ruled IT. And for the past decade, the big three hyperscalers - AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud - have looked just as untouchable. Their logos tower over earnings reports, their data centers span the globe, and their developer ecosystems swallow entire industries.
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Good news for the tech sector: worldwide IT spending will grow by a robust 7.9% in 2025, according to a mid-year forecast by Gartner. Yet the Gartner report includes statistics that reveal significant uncertainty even as the headline is positive.
more → Techstrong.IT, December 11,2025
Snowflake today in collaboration with Salesforce, BlackRock, dbt Labs, and RelationalAI launched an open source initiative that promises to make it simpler for semantic models to interoperate.
more → Techstrong.IT, December 11,2025
A new global study underscores a growing disconnect between corporate leaders and their technology chiefs-a divide that could slow enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence.
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A global outage of cloud services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted access to hundreds of thousands of websites and applications today that were dependent as many as 78 impacted services.
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Europe's top enterprise Linux distro is promising unmatched longevity and security with its newest release. SUSE has officially released SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Service Pack 7 (SLES 15 SP7), positioning it as a strategic 'safe harbor' for enterprise IT investments, with support extending until 2037.
more → Techstrong.IT, December 11,2025
In today's tightening economic environment, CIOs are under pressure to do more with less. IT budgets are being scrutinized like never before, and while cost-cutting is inevitable, halting innovation is not.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, December 19th, 2025
For data centers pressured by the demands of AI, liquid cooling has moved from a specialty option to a baseline requirement for today's most power-dense data facilities.
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Techstrong.IT, Thursday, December 18th, 2025
I don't often change my mind in public. Not because I'm stubborn (okay, maybe a little), but because when you've been around this industry long enough, you learn to be wary of shiny arguments that feel good in the moment and age poorly over time.
more → Techstrong.AI, Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
IT leaders are understandably hopeful about embracing agentic AI, a technology that promises to address unprecedented network complexity while improving network resilience and enterprise security posture.
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Designing a cutting-edge network is only half the battle - operating it efficiently and reliably is the other half, and maybe more. Modern data center networks demand a new operational mindset, one that leverages automation, artificial intelligence, and seamless integration with IT workflows.
more → Techstrong.IT, December 12,2025
The Cisco Catalyst brand has been making its mark on the world of networking for many years. I can think back to when the first switches were sent out in road cases for trials. As the product itself has evolved, so has all the technologies around it. The demands are higher, the speeds are faster, and we can build an entire building with Power-over-Ethernet.
more → Techstrong.IT, December 12,2025
In AI's first great phase of lightning-quick adoption and development, the most common approach has been to use services based in the cloud. But many organizations have recognized the limitations of cloud-based AI: while ideal for rapid implementations and quick results, data management and security concerns have naturally led to investment in on-premises, data center-based AI as well.
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Managing hybrid infrastructure-which in the modern IT shop includes public clouds; private clouds; on-premises and co-located systems and data centers; cross-platform virtualized Linux, other operating systems (OS), and container platforms; as well as numerous other resource automation platforms-has become a potentially massive task.
more → Techstrong.IT, December 11,2025
When people imagine data centers, they often think of the massive cloud facilities run by companies like FAANG. Yet across the country, a different kind of data center plays a crucial role in powering hospitals, universities, government offices, and small businesses.
more → Techstrong.IT, December 10,2025
AMD has released a new EPYC Embedded 2005 Series, a line of chips that presents a significant escalation in the competition for networking, storage and industrial sectors that are increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.
more → Techstrong.IT, December 9,2025
Worldwide IT spending will surge 14% in 2025 to $4.25 trillion, its strongest annual performance in nearly three decades as massive artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure investments drive a worldwide tech super cycle, according to market researcher IDC.
more → Techstrong.IT, December 8,2025
There are moments in this industry when someone with real authority stands up, clears their throat, and says the quiet part out loud. Last week, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna did exactly that.
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