Author: Steven J. Schuchart Jr.

Steven is Principal Analyst for Enterprise Networking at GlobalData, covering networking hardware and software for the data center and enterprise, including switching, routing, SDN, SD-WAN, and related technologies. This includes NFV for enterprise, automation, AI/ML for networking, location services, and the convergence of networking and security. Steven will also be covering the new edge, as the network edge evolves SD-WAN and IoT and the opportunities around re-inventing the edge as companies move towards digitization. Steven's technology career began over 25 years ago in Fortune 500 IT for retail, where he was a network architect. Prior to Global Data, Steven has served as Managing Technology Editor at Network Computing Magazine, where he did his own testing and writing, Principal Network Analyst for Network Infrastructure at Current Analysis, and most recently at Cisco Systems, where he worked in Data Center switching, Cloud, and Enterprise Switching.

I’ve Got a Lot of Problems With You People

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in IT Leader
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Summary Bullets:

  • The technology industry can do better.
  • Let’s just hope that the uneasy feeling about the AI bubble everyone is experiencing is just a bit of leftover holiday undigested beef, blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, or a fragment of an underdone potato (with apologies to Dickens).

Festivus took place on December 23, 2025, but despite being late, there are grievances to air in regard to the technology industry as it relates to enterprises in 2025. So, let’s start. “I’ve got a lot of problems with you people!”

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Slow Your Roll on AI

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in Big Data, Cloud Enable, IT Leader
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AI has been the rage for at least three years now, first just generative AI (GenAI), and now agentic AI. AI can be pretty useful, at GlobalData we’ve done some very cool things with AI on our site. Strategic things, that serve a defined purpose and add value. The use of AI at GlobalData hasn’t been indiscriminate – it has been thought through with how it could help our customers and ourselves. Even this skeptical author can appreciate what’s been done.

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Take a Hard Pass on AI Browsers and AI Extensions for Browsers

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in Cloud Enable, Secure
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Summary Bullets:

• Don’t use AI browsers or AI browser extensions – the loss of privacy isn’t worth the functionality.

• AI companies mean well, but the privacy implications of these products are unsuitable for enterprise or personal use.

“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” – Andrew Lewis (blue_beetle), MetaFilter comment (2010)

It’s not news that AI is being talked about everywhere. It’s also not news that the websites and applications you use regularly are doing their level best to spy on you or obtain data that can be used internally or be sold to advertisers. Nor is it news that the state of privacy laws across the world is pretty poor, despite the EU giving its best attempt and the US pretending that three lines of legalese in a 15-page disclaimer somehow magically sets the ‘informed’ flag on users.

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Security Falls on Deaf Ears

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in Cloud Enable, Secure
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Jaguar Land Rover, the iconic British car manufacturer has had virtually no production in its plants since the end of August 2025. A devastating cyberattack shut the company down – details on how the attack happened, who initiated the attack, and why it so thoroughly shut down Jaguar Land Rover have not been released to date. The postmortem will be an interesting read, more so to find out how much of the effect of this cyberattack was Jaguar Land Rover’s fault. No, this isn’t indulgent victim-blaming, and right now there is no proof the Jaguar Land Rover was anything but diligent. But the length of the shutdown and the secrecy does arise suspicions. Under principles of good business continuity and disaster recovery, Jaguar Land Rover should have been at least somewhat back in production by now. But analysis will really have to wait until details emerge.

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Cisco Quantum – Simply Network All the Quantum Computers

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in Big Data
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Cisco’s Quantum Labs research team, part of Outshift by Cisco, has announced that they have completed a complete software solution prototype. The latest part is the Cisco Quantum Complier prototype, designed for distributed quantum computing across networked processors. In short, it allows a network of quantum computers, of all types, to participate in solving a single problem. Even better, this new compiler supports distributed quantum error correction. Instead of a quantum computer needing to have a huge number of qbits itself, the load can be spread out among multiple quantum computers. This coordination is handled across a quantum network, powered by Cisco’s Quantum Network entanglement chip, which was announced in May 2025. This network could also be used to secure communications for traditional servers as well.

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HPE’s Concessions Made to US DoJ to Acquire Juniper Will Have an Uncertain Impact

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in Big Data, Network
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Summary bullets:

• The long-awaited merger is nearly here

• The impact of these concessions will play out over time

The long, drawn-out saga of HPE’s quest to buy Juniper has reached another milestone. HPE and the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) have reached a deal that, pending judicial approval, will allow the transaction to complete. However, there are a couple of concessions on HPE’s part. First it must divest its HPE Aruba Instant On business within 180 days to satisfy the DoJ’s worries about Wi-Fi market share of the combined companies. Second, HPE must auction off a perpetual, non-exclusive license to the source code for AI Ops for Mist.

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We Are Becoming Numb to Cybersecurity Breaches

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in Big Data, Cloud Enable, Secure
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Summary Bullets:

• Password managers do tend to make logging in easier – but it’s a change that people must get used to…

• To really embrace cybersecurity, there needs to be a reckoning to correct old thinking and ideas.

Sixteen (16) billion. That’s a number that isn’t comprehendible. It’s a number you hear on the news, usually in a science segment or in a finance segment talking about the ultra-wealthy. But this time, 16 billion is the number of exposed login credentials researchers from Cybernews found in an exposed dataset. This dataset contains stolen login credentials, mostly gained via malware. The credentials come from everywhere – from websites around the world, including popular websites and cloud services.

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Near Miss – Funding is Not the Only Threat to the CVE Program

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in Secure
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Summary Bullets:

• The foundations of the cybersecurity industry shook as the CVE program is nearly ended over short-sighted budget considerations.

• It is hard to convey how crucial the CVE system is worldwide.

This news was kept in the dark. If it would not have been for a leak of an internal memo to social media, it would have hit the cybersecurity landscape like a musket ball to the forehead. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system is a load-bearing piece of the world’s cybersecurity infrastructure, and it was still perilously close to being suspended. The current US administration’s FIRE – READY – AIM approach to cost cutting was to blame for what could have been a catastrophic loss.

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Post-Quantum Cryptography – The Tempest Begins

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in Communicate, Secure
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Summary Bullets:

  • Governments have issued advisories as to when and how enterprises, institutions, and government agencies should begin their journey to PQC.
  • While there is much speculation as to when quantum computing will advance to become a threat, the time to act is NOW.

While the AI trend has made a lot of noise dominating headlines, the world of quantum computing has been moving forward much more quietly. More qubits, new error correction, and in general just more improvements in the field as fundamental research continues to point the way. Quantum computing will provide the means to crack some of the hardest problems in the world and will lead to advances in healthcare, chemistry, materials science, and so much more.

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Intel’s Future is Murky – CEO Gelsinger Abruptly Retires

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in IT Leader
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In a shocking move, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired from his position as CEO as well as his seat on Intel’s board. The resignation is effective as of December 1, 2024. Intel is currently looking for a new CEO, and in the meantime, it has appointed David Zinser – Intel CFO and Michelle Johnston Holthaus – CEO of Intel Products as interim co-CEOs. Officially, Gelsinger retired. Unofficially, it’s likely he didn’t have a choice. The board needed to sacrifice somebody important to Wall Street.

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