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Kashif Nazir

The year of the AI agents? More outages? Here’s what lies ahead for IT teams in 2026

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From AWS to Cloudflare, 2025 was a year full of major outages and cyberattacks. In particular, these have exposed a reliance on a select few cloud providers and vulnerabilities in complex IT estates. It was also a year where AI has continued to transform how organizations operate.

New tools are redefining how IT teams manage their infrastructure, while entry level tasks are increasingly being taken over by AI, radically altering what skills are needed in the workforce and how to train employees in them.

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