Software

AI networking may top $200B by decade’s end, with software estimated at $40–50B, driven by Ethernet fabrics, observability, automation, and open networking.

Snyk integrated Anthropic’s Claude into its AI Security Platform to automate vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and fixes.

The blog says enterprises should prepare networking foundations for AI by using software-defined platforms like SONiC before adopting AI tools.

Aviz Networks highlights open networking and AI observability at CCISDA 2026 to improve visibility, reduce costs, and avoid vendor lock-in.

Astera Labs started shipping the Scorpio X-Series 320-lane smart fabric switch and expanded the Scorpio P-Series PCIe family to 32–320 lanes.

Hedgehog contributed OCP Accepted AI training and inference fabric reference architectures to the OCP Marketplace, available for deployment with Ethernet-based disaggregated networks.

Scality announced ARTESCA+ Veeam HA, a unified, multi-node software appliance pairing Veeam Data Platform with Scality ARTESCA S3 immutable storage. The release claims triple high availability across the Veeam stack and storage, plus S3 Object Lock immutability and a $100,000 cyber guarantee for immutably stored data.

Most AI discussions start at the app layer, but this post says network standardization affects GPU utilization and AI serving costs.

Cognizant launched the Cognizant Innovation Network to invest in AI, data, cybersecurity and cloud startups and connect them to enterprise solutions.

IBM made IBM Bob available globally, citing internal rollout results and features for SDLC orchestration, governance, and security controls.

OneTrust appointed Doug Owens as CFO, overseeing global finance and building on prior CFO and business operations experience.

In Aviz Podcast Ep. 21, investor Louis Toth says AI’s next wave is shaped at the edge and depends on networking to scale.