Agentic AI won’t scale on ambition. It will scale on infrastructure.

Agentic AI is moving into the enterprise faster than the infrastructure beneath it can keep up. In Cisco and Omdia’s survey of 650 executives , 87% said it’s reshaping strategic priorities, yet 62% said they’re struggling to secure networks, manage agent identities, and protect data in motion. For CIOs, that’s the job now: build the infrastructure, security, and governance to scale AI without also scaling risk. Secure, observable infrastructure is the new constraint At enterprise scale, agentic AI exposes whatever the infrastructure can’t support. Agents need low latency access to data, resilient connectivity, zero trust identity, and governance. The people working with them need the visibility to monitor what those non-deterministic agents are doing. If the infrastructure isn’t secure, scale won’t create value. It’ll create exposure. That’s the bigger shift the research points to: Agentic AI turns infrastructure into a strategic business decision, not a back-office one. The network is