From Network Engineer to ACI Architect: The CCIE Data Center Career Ladder
There’s a persistent myth floating around Reddit and networking forums: “Data center networking is dying. It’s all cloud now.” Let me kill that with numbers. The US data center market exceeded $135 billion in 2025, and it’s accelerating — driven almost entirely by AI workload expansion. Every hyperscaler, every enterprise running private cloud, every financial institution with latency requirements needs engineers who understand data center fabric at an expert level. ...