Over the past few years, organizations have made enormous strides in enabling remote and hybrid work. But the foundational technologies powering today's digital workplace were never designed for the volume, velocity, and complexity that is coming next. By 2026 and beyond, three forces — 5G, the metaverse, and edge AI — will fundamentally reshape how people connect, collaborate, and access enterprise resources ... The businesses that begin preparing now will gain a competitive head start. Those that wait will find themselves trying to secure environments that have already outgrown their architecture ...

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 22, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses DNS Security ... 

In 2026, AI-native automation is fundamentally reshaping telemetry pipeline management. As a result, around 80% of configuration tasks currently hand-built by enterprise teams, whether they tackle security or pull insights from observability, will be automated. This transforms the roles of those teams from builders to strategic drivers. The acceleration of this shift was made possible by the alignment of several elements, namely the convergence in the standardization of OpenTelemetry, rapidly maturing AI, increasing competition between platform choices, and economic pressure ...

Many organizations rely on cloud-first architectures to aggregate, analyze, and act on their operational data ... However, not all environments are conducive to cloud-first architectures ... There are limitations to cloud-first architectures that render them ineffective in mission-critical situations where responsiveness, cost control, and data sovereignty are non-negotiable; these limitations include ...

For years, cybersecurity was built around a simple assumption: protect the physical network and trust everything inside it. That model made sense when employees worked in offices, applications lived in data centers, and devices rarely left the building. Today's reality is fluid: people work from everywhere, applications run across multiple clouds, and AI-driven agents are beginning to act on behalf of users. But while the old perimeter dissolved, a new one quietly emerged ...

Resilience can no longer be defined by how quickly an organization recovers from an incident or disruption. The effectiveness of any resilience strategy is dependent on its ability to anticipate change, operate under continuous stress, and adapt confidently amid uncertainty ...

Cloudflare's disruption illustrates how quickly a single provider's issue cascades into widespread exposure. Many organizations don't fully realize how tightly their systems are coupled to thirdparty services, or how quickly availability and security concerns align when those services falter ... You can't avoid these dependencies, but you can understand them ...

Industry experts offer predictions on how NetOps and NPM will evolve and impact business in 2026. Part 2 covers NetOps challenges and the edge ...

Every few years, the cybersecurity industry adopts a new buzzword. "Zero Trust" has endured longer than most — and for good reason. Its promise is simple: trust nothing by default, verify everything continuously. Yet many organizations still hesitate to implement Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). The problem isn't that ZTNA doesn't work. It's that it's often misunderstood ...

Getting applications into the hands of those who need them quickly and securely has long been the goal of a branch of IT often referred to as End User Computing (EUC). Over recent years, the way applications (and data) have been delivered to these "users" has changed noticeably. Organizations have many more choices available to them now, and there will be more to come ... But how did we get here? Where are we going? Is this all too complicated? ...

Chris Steffen and Ken Buckler from EMA discuss the Cloudflare outage and what availability means in the technology space ...

Governments and social platforms face an escalating challenge: hyperrealistic synthetic media now spreads faster than legacy moderation systems can react. From pandemic-related conspiracies to manipulated election content, disinformation has moved beyond "false text" into the realm of convincing audiovisual deception ...

From smart factories and autonomous vehicles to real-time analytics and intelligent building systems, the demand for instant, local data processing is exploding. To meet these needs, organizations are leaning into edge computing. The promise? Faster performance, reduced latency and less strain on centralized infrastructure. But there's a catch: Not every network is ready to support edge deployments ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future investment. It's already embedded in how we work — whether through copilots in productivity apps, real-time transcription tools in meetings, or machine learning models fueling analytics and personalization. But while enterprise adoption accelerates, there's one critical area many leaders have yet to examine: Can your network actually support AI at the speed your users expect? ...

The more technology businesses invest in, the more potential attack surfaces they have that can be exploited. Without the right continuity plans in place, the disruptions caused by these attacks can bring operations to a standstill and cause irreparable damage to an organization. It's essential to take the time now to ensure your business has the right tools, processes, and recovery initiatives in place to weather any type of IT disaster that comes up. Here are some effective strategies you can follow to achieve this ...

Artificial intelligence is moving from hype to action, but not all AI is created equal. The current wave of interest primarily focuses on large language models (LLMs) and generative AI tools that create content, summarize data, and automate human workflows. Useful as they are, these systems still depend on people to guide and apply them. Instead of waiting for prompts, agentic AI can decide on a course of action, connect with other systems, and carry out tasks on its own. That level of independence is already drawing interest from attackers, who are testing ways to use automation and adaptation to gain an edge in cyberattacks ...

Organizations across the globe face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges as their digital footprints expand across cloud, on-premises, and remote environments. Ransomware continues to surge as one of the top global cyber threats, with attacks increasing(link is external) by 33% globally in 2024 and organizations experiencing an average of 1,200 weekly attacks — the highest in three years ...

Executive trust in AI agents and reliance on AI across business operations is growing, according to the PagerDuty AI Resilience Survey — 81% of executives trust AI agents to take action on the company's behalf during a crisis, such as a service outage or security event ...

Aryaka recently conducted a series of surveys in three distinct industries (manufacturing, transportation, and business services), looking deeper at key trends and pain points in networking and security. Despite differences in industry priorities and digital maturity, IT leaders in these sectors are all clearly facing an uphill battle to secure increasingly hybrid, cloud-connected, and distributed infrastructure without overwhelming their limited resources ...

The biggest change in Cloud Managed Services 2.0 is how it unites domains that once operated in isolation. CloudOps, FinOps, DevOps, SecOps, and AIOps now work as a single, cohesive team instead of separate departments competing for resources and priorities. This matters because modern businesses operate at a pace that leaves traditional methods behind ...

Services firms are grappling with significant new networking and security challenges as they increasingly transition towards digital-first operations, according to The State of Network Security in Business and Professional Services, a report commissioned by Aryaka ...

Reliance on packet capture to improve mean times to detection (MTTD) and resolution (MTTR) is likely to increase in 79% of enterprise organizations this year, according to the 2025/2026 State of the Network study by VIAVI Solutions ... The study shows that organizations with strong packet capture experienced notable improvements to MTTD, with double the number of respondents reporting a significantly shorter MTTD rate over the past year compared to those lacking strong packet capture capability ...

In response to the increasing demand for new mobile applications and advanced capabilities, developers have been prioritizing time-to-market, application performance, and user experience (UX) at the expense of security. A recent Enterprise Strategy Group survey of mobile app developers and security professionals uncovered that only 38% of organizations currently analyze their mobile applications for vulnerabilities on a weekly basis, while nearly 20% have a gap of a quarter or more between vulnerability tests ...

Shadow AI represents both the greatest governance risk and the biggest strategic opportunity in the enterprise. Organizations that will thrive are those that address the security threats and reframe shadow AI as a strategic indicator of genuine business needs. IT leaders must shift from playing defense to proactively building transparent, collaborative, and secure AI ecosystems that employees feel empowered to use ...

In today's enterprise landscape, two seismic shifts are converging: the mainstreaming of hybrid work and the rapid adoption of AI-enhanced applications. While both promise productivity gains and competitive advantage, they also expose a hidden Achilles' heel, application performance ...