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Gartner: Network automation to increase threefold by 2026

Network World

By 2026, 30% of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities, according to Gartner. Increase agile skills in infrastructure and operations teams to drive continuous delivery improvement. By comparison, less than 10% of enterprises were automating more than half of their network activities in mid-2023.

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AI humanoid robots inch their way toward the workforce

CIO Business Intelligence

AI is really the brain driving humanoid robots like Agility, Tesla Optimus, and Boston Dynamics Atlas. Today, key vendors xAI, Meta, IBM, Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Figure.ai, FourierIntelligence, and Sanctuary.ai have plans to develop AI humanoid robots that can reason and adapt.

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9 steps to take to prepare for a quantum future

Network World

On the quantum computing vendor side, 39% expect their customers to be using quantum computers inproduction in 2026, according to an Omdia survey released in October. Instead, Horvath and other experts recommend that enterprises pursue quantum agility. It seems easy to do but its actually catastrophic.

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Thinking outside the cloud: bring cloud agility to your entire infrastructure

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud technology is a springboard for digital transformation, delivering the business agility and simplicity that are so important to today’s business. In fact, in a recent IDC study , 60% of CIOs stated they are already planning to modify their operating model to manage value, agility, and risk by 2026. Discover how.

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What the CIO role will look like in 2026

CIO Business Intelligence

1 task by 2026 being driving business innovation. The CIO role in 2026 will be about influencing, leading, and governing, as opposed to technology selector, integrator, configurator, and customizer. IT leaders describe the CIO of 2026 and beyond as an “influencer,” “strategic thinker,” and “eloquence communicator and leader.”

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

The evolution of agile development The agile manifesto was released in 2001 and, since then, the development philosophy has steadily gained over the previous waterfall style of software development. Weve seen so many reference implementations, and weve done so many reference implementations, that were going to see massive adoption.

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Generative AI set to reshape SD-WAN market

Network World

These capabilities can help enterprises to streamline network design, configuration and ongoing management as well as increase agility and improve performance, according to Gartner. There’s a trend toward AI capabilities that enable networking decisions to be made with little or no human intervention.

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