As organizations begin planning for 2027, IT budgets have historically been an exercise in taking last year’s expenses, adjusting for known changes, and adding a little room for growth. Unfortunately, technology changes too quickly now—and has become too important to business operations—for that to be enough. Your IT budget should reflect where your organization is going, the risks you need to manage, and the technology investments you’ll need to support the business, even le

Artificial intelligence is often discussed as if its value begins and ends with the model. In networking, that framing is tempting, but it is also misleading. A model that can explain BGP, summarize a firewall rule or suggest a show command is useful, but it is not yet operating a network. The more interesting question is not whether AI can talk about infrastructure. It is whether AI can participate in the disciplined practice of running infrastructure safely. That distinctio

Let’s start with a hard truth: most IT teams are flying blind. Your network "works" most of the time. Your cameras are recording. Your wireless covers most of the office. On the surface, everything looks fine. But just like a car that "runs fine" until the transmission suddenly fails because nobody checked the fluid, infrastructure that seems to work can harbor invisible inefficiencies, unnecessary costs, and security blind spots. These issues don't disappear; they compound q