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This blog summarizes Phil Tee’s presentation at The AI Networking Summit. For the full recording of this session, visit here The rise of Agentic AI, AI-enabled agents building enterprise applications has sparked a technological “gold rush” and fundamentally shifted the security paradigm. As AI moves beyond simple GenAI models to complex, autonomous agents, the traditional security measures are proving inadequate, forcing a necessary re-evaluation of how we protect our digital environments. The Agentic Difference: More Than Just GenAI What differentiates an AI agent from a…
For 14 years, our community has been at the forefront of industry shifts. We pioneered the SD-WAN marketplace, now a multi-billion dollar industry. We championed multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies when single-cloud was the prevailing thought. Our journey continued through orchestrating and automating virtual and leased infrastructure, and tightly integrating networking and security. Today, ONUG stands on the precipice of our fifth wave: AI networking, evolving into the enterprise AI community. Our focus for 2026 and 2027 is clear: building an AI-native enterprise network fabric. The…
How the Fall Summit Set the Stage for Building the AI-Native Enterprise Network Fabric in 2026 At the Fall 2025 AI Networking Summit in New York, one theme dominated every conversation: enterprises are experimenting with AI, but they’re not yet ready to operationalize it. Business units are running pilots, copilots, and proofs-of-concept, but IT and infrastructure teams are still figuring out how to scale, secure, and support them. That disconnect — between AI enthusiasm and AI readiness — is now the industry’s biggest challenge. And…
Modern networks are living ecosystems — vast, interconnected, and evolving by the second. From cloud to edge, across vendors and domains, they generate more data than traditional tools or teams can absorb. Managing this complexity requires more than automation scripts and dashboards. It demands intelligent systems that deliver answers and actions, not just alerts. That’s the idea behind IBM Network Intelligence, a new network-native AI platform designed to help organizations shift from reactive problem-solving to proactive performance assurance. Developed in collaboration with IBM Research, it…
It’s common to think of IT as its own silo, but the truth is that it’s become existential across the entire enterprise. And yet, when a flood of alerts hits the NOC, the response is often anything but resilient. It’s usually quite hectic as engineers scramble to correlate signals and manually trigger fixes. It’s a familiar story with a familiar question: why haven’t we solved this already? Many enterprises have invested heavily in automation, and while visibility sometimes improves, the ability to autonomously act on…
Wide Area Network (WAN) circuit costs consistently rank among the top ten line items in most enterprise IT budgets. Yet despite representing such a significant expenditure, WAN procurement remains one of the least automated areas in enterprise infrastructure management. The process is still dominated by manual RFPs, spreadsheets, vendor negotiations, and contract reviews—activities that consume months of staff time, introduce opacity, and lock organizations into outdated pricing models. In an era where compute and storage can be provisioned in minutes through cloud platforms, the procurement…
If you could claw back some cash from your company’s technical debt, no doubt you would. Instead of having 70 to 80% of your IT budget stuck on maintenance on aging infrastructure vs. innovation, imagine having enough budget to put towards cloud modernization and migration, GenAI, agentic AI and intelligent automation, real-time analytics or zero trust security. Now there are certainly legitimate reasons why tackling technical debt isn’t easy. You get caught up in firefighting bugs and there’s no time to improve the design or…
The Network Lag in a Consumption-Driven IT World Over the last decade, compute, storage, and applications have evolved to on-demand, consumption-based models — reshaping how enterprises consume IT. Yet, one critical pillar has lagged: the network. While software-defined networking has made inroads, many enterprises still operate rigid, pre-provisioned networks. As applications become increasingly distributed and dynamic — from hybrid cloud to edge deployments — a programmable, on-demand network infrastructure has moved from a “nice to have” to a non-negotiable requirement. Across industries, enterprises are evolving…
If you’ve gone through an MPLS to SD-WAN transition or simply operate a network with 100+ sites, you’ve likely undergone some form of “bulk” connectivity procurement in the past. Bulk procurement comes with drawbacks – complex RFP creation, tons of quoting to manage, lengthy contracting, and painfully complex installations. That said, I’ve found that IT leaders often espouse the benefits of bulk procurement. Why? The bulk discount! If you buy many circuits at once, you’ll end up with a lower price per Mbps on average…
The evolution of artificial intelligence, particularly the rise of large language models (LLMs) and deep learning, has created an immense demand for computational power primarily driven by GPUs. However, maximizing GPU efficiency requires a robust networking infrastructure that ensures minimal latency and zero packet loss. This post highlights the critical role of Data Center Bridging (DCB) with a focus on its two key components; Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) and Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in achieving lossless and high-performance networks suitable for large-scale GPU deployments in…
