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Daily Briefing · Jun 17, 2026
Modern data center automation extends beyond AI hype to deliver policy-led orchestration across power, cooling, physical security and operations. Platforms now coordinate electrical power management systems (EPMS), DCIM, and intelligent PDUs to enforce rack-level power caps and prioritize workloads. This represents a shift from siloed tools to integrated, predictive automation that enables operators to manage core functions in ways that weren't practical before.
Verizon is advancing network automation with agentic AI, deploying agents to handle operational tasks with early promising results. The carrier's foundation is the on-premise Verizon Cloud Platform (VCP) hosting virtual and cloud-native network functions, running 60,000 vRAN sites. From early learnings, Verizon emphasizes the industry must focus on security, transparency, and common frameworks for agentic network operations as autonomous agents move into production environments.
Public cloud network outages increased 14% globally to 87 events week-over-week, with U.S. outages rising 16% to 66. Software-driven failures like Verizon's January network-wide outage reveal vulnerabilities exist inside the network itself, not just geographically. This underscores why observability, automation tooling, and incident response automation are mission-critical for preventing cascading failures across interdependent infrastructure.
Zscaler introduced the ZAgent Framework at Zenith Live 2026, an agentic AI orchestration layer that automates SASE administration through natural language prompts in the Experience Center. The framework coordinates specialized agents to reduce IT/security resolution time, simplify multi-cloud management, and correlate context across 500 trillion daily signals to improve detection accuracy. The expansion addresses modern attack environments where legacy firewall/VPN-based SASE fails to secure unmanaged devices, supply chains, and distributed workloads.
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Podcasts & Talks · Jun 17, 2026
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