By DJ Sampath,
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 12:57:00
Every few decades, infrastructure gets a new abstraction. We went from racking hardware to virtualizing it, then from clicking through consoles to writing infrastructure as code. Each shift changed who could build, how fast they could move, and what was possible to defend.
The next abstraction isn’t coming. It’s already here.
As captured, agentic AI is kicking off a networking supercycle — the era of managing critical infrastructure at human scale is over. What comes next has to be built for a workforce that is no longer entirely human.
Agents are about to become a permanent part of how enterprises run. Real, capable, reasoning agents that observe infrastructure, modify it, defend it, and extend it. The real question: is your infrastructure ready to let them in safely?
That’s the question Cisco Cloud Control was built to answer.
Above: Cisco Cloud Control homepage
From infrastructure as code to infrastructure as a harness
Think…
