Business Technology Roundtable

Every enterprise racing to deploy Agentic AI is making an infrastructure decision it may not recognize as one. When an AI agent connects to internal systems and proprietary content, the protocol governing that connection determines whether the enterprise controls the terms of access or cedes them by default. Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the standard linking agents to backend data and tools, and it is spreading through corporate technology stacks faster than the governance frameworks meant to secure it.  For CIOs and CISOs, this stopped being a developer tooling question months ago. It is now a sovereignty question: who defines the boundary between an AI agent and a company's proprietary intelligence. The MCP Adoption Security Gap Gartner projects that by 2028, 25 percent of all enterprise Generative AI (GenAI) applications will experience at least five minor security incidents per year, up from 9 percent in 2025. That trajectory tracks closely with how fast MCP has been ...

Guided by senior executive goals for digital transformation, more organizations are increasing their use of cloud computing technologies. The typical multi-cloud mix includes a blend of public cloud, private cloud and traditional IT services. Finding the best-fit service mix starts with the business requirements. The latest Global Cloud Index (GCI) 2016-2021 from Cisco focuses on the worldwide market outlook for enterprise data center virtualization and cloud computing services. Today's digital business is enabled by a Hybrid IT infrastructure that supports the deployment of cloud-based solutions. Driven by the surging enthusiasm for digital reinvention projects, data center traffic is growing fast. The market study authors forecast global cloud data center traffic will reach 19.5 zettabytes (ZB) per year by 2021 -- that's up from 6.0 ZB per year in 2016. Globally, cloud data center traffic will represent 95 percent of total data center traffic by 2021, compared to 88 per...