Cloud platforms, networks, data centers and the hardware underneath enterprise IT.
Taylor Vick / UnsplashOffice 2021 and Office LTSC 2021, the third and final year of Windows Server 2012 ESUs and Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro all reach their cutoff on the same day.
İsmail Enes Ayhan / UnsplashThe 1U DL525 ships first. The eight-GPU DL585a follows in spring 2027, and two dense multi-node systems come later in the year.
Billy Joachim / UnsplashThe campus would be built in four phases from December 2026 to 2036, on the site of a coal plant that closed in 2023.
User_Pascal / UnsplashFour changes are reshaping enterprise networks at once. Most of them show up first as contract renewals, so the timing of decisions matters as much as the technology.
Bernd Dittrich / UnsplashData centers used about 1.5% of the world's electricity in 2024. The International Energy Agency expects that to more than double by 2030, with AI the biggest driver.
Kevin Ache / UnsplashCloud spending is growing faster than it was before the AI boom. The trends that matter for IT budgets in 2026 all trace back to that.
Matthieu Beaumont / UnsplashAI training spreads one job across many GPUs, and the network between them decides how fast it finishes. That has turned data center networking into an AI buying decision.
CHUTTERSNAP / UnsplashThe three cloud service models differ in one thing above all: how much of the stack you still run yourself. That decides your staffing, your security work and how you pay.
Chris Linnett / UnsplashThe most useful decision in a cloud migration is made before any tool is chosen: what happens to each application. AWS's seven Rs give that decision a common vocabulary.
Albert Sukhanov / UnsplashOnce a company runs more than one cloud plus its own servers, the hard part is seeing and governing all of it in one place. That's the job of a cloud management platform.
Nick / UnsplashCloud object storage copies your data across several facilities. That protects against hardware failure, not against someone deleting it, which is where most data loss comes from.
Jakub Żerdzicki / UnsplashCloud cost management used to mean finding idle servers. According to the FinOps Foundation's 2026 survey, almost every FinOps team now manages AI spend as well.
Scott Rodgerson / UnsplashSD-WAN started as a cheaper way to connect branch offices. It is now being folded into combined networking and security platforms.
dlxmedia.hu / UnsplashWi-Fi 7 certification began in January 2024. Its biggest gains depend on the 6 GHz band and on client devices that support it, which is what decides the timing of an upgrade.
Taylor Van Riper / UnsplashMost cloud arguments are really definition arguments. NIST settled the definition in 2011, and it still sorts out what counts as cloud and what is hosting with a new label.
Kirill Sh / UnsplashA good network design stops one compromised laptop from reaching everything, and keeps the business running when a link fails. Neither needs exotic equipment.