Cloud platforms, networks, data centers and the hardware underneath enterprise IT.
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.