Varma Kunaparaju had a front-row seat to the first generations of AIOps tools based on machine learning as the co-founder and CEO at OpsRamp, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) in 2023. Now, he's an SVP & GM overseeing parts of HPE's CloudOps Software Suite and GreenLake hybrid cloud platform. In this episode, Kunaparaju details the company's recent free licensing deal for Broadcom/VMware refugees, the evolution of AIOps in the agentic era, and HPE's broader ambitions in enterprise AI infrastructure. Featuring: Varma Kunaparaju, SVP & GM, HPE CloudOps Software & Platform In today’s episode, we’ll cover… AIOps, AgenticOps and the state of autonomous infrastructure management HPE Morpheus VME pricing after year 1 How HPE's AI networking strategy will affect its hybrid cloud products And more! References: More VMware customers jumping ship as contracts wind down Virtualization alternatives and AI: Lessons from HPE Discover HPE customers say the key to integration success is communication AgenticOps for infrastructure faces a deterministic dilemma To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.

Block, the company behind Square, Cash App, Afterpay, Tidal and various bitcoin projects, rolled out a new layer of AI agent orchestration internally this month called Builderbot. The new tool widens the agentic loop beyond a single codebase and application – the kind of thing its open source goose agent framework tends to handle -- to encompass more comprehensive workflows that include incident response. Block's head of AI capabilities offers his view on Builderbot's implications for AgenticOps at Block and what parts of it might become available to the open source community as it matures. Featuring: Brad Axen, head of AI capabilities at Block In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Builderbot vs goose The build vs buy decision that led Block to create Builderbot How SREs at Block already use Builderbot for incident management Axen's outlook on enterprise agentic AI And more! References: Datadog shops: AI incident management needs platform engineers Cisco Cloud Control unites AgenticOps for IT infrastructure SaaSpocalypse? Maybe not, but SaaS applications are changing How to use AI agents for infrastructure management To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.

Amazon Web Services launched five new agentic AI services during its AWS Summit New York conference this week, all geared toward helping enterprise organizations keep pace with the speed of AI development, from emerging cybersecurity threats to technical debt. We caught up with the AWS vice president of agentic AI to discuss these updates, how AWS ensures quality and reliability for agentic AI systems through its AgentCore system and other tools, and how enterprises can get the most out of AI use. Featuring: Deepak Singh, vice president of Agentic AI, AWS In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Amazon Quick Autonomous Agents Agentic AI security auto-remediation with AWS Continuum Mobile support for AWS Kiro Release management for AWS DevOps AWS Transform continuous modernization * And more! References: AWS Kiro 'user error' reflects common AI coding review gap AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft AWS AI Factories target hybrid cloud AI infrastructure To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech. * Editor's note: AWS Transform Zero Debt was renamed following this recording to AWS Transform continuous modernization.

This week, Anthropic shipped its first public release of a large language model, Fable 5, based on its Mythos 5 frontier model. Mythos has been a hot topic of discussion in the tech industry, given it excels at finding software vulnerabilities – making it both a potentially useful resource for defenders and a potential accelerant for attackers. Todd Thiemann, principal analyst at Omdia, shares insights from his research into identity management and data security for AI and how enterprise agentic AI security should meet the Mythos moment. Featuring: Todd Thiemann, principal analyst, Omdia In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Mythos 5, Fable 5 and their cybersecurity implications Fighting AI attacks with AI defenses Balancing the security risks of using AI and of being vulnerable to AI How AI governance might factor into AI ROI And more! References: Cisco agentic AI security push faces enterprise trust gap Identity security for AI agents: The proliferation challenge Omdia Research Report: AI Agents and Identity Security: How Enterprises Are Rewriting the Rules Anthropic's Mythos raises the stakes for security validation To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.

Enterprises are grappling with growing AI infrastructure demands, including substantial growth in network traffic generated by AI agents, increasingly complex network architectures and new frontiers in system design for reliability and resilience. Cisco's data center and internet infrastructure leader takes a deep dive into how large companies – including Cisco itself – are addressing these issues, and preparing for the next 6 months of rapid AI development. Featuring: Kevin Wollenweber, senior vice president and general manager of data center and internet infrastructure, Cisco. In today’s episode, we’ll cover… A new partnership with Quali for Stack Automation Building enterprise trust in AgenticOps AI infrastructure outlook over the next 6 months And more! References: Cisco Cloud Control unites AgenticOps for IT infrastructure Cisco Live 26: Networks the key in post-Mythos world Cisco: AI driving a 'network supercycle' To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.

At Cisco Live North America 2026, updates were unveiled that aim to reshape how enterprises approach network management and security, including Cisco Cloud Control. Stay tuned for more insights as veteran reporter Beth Pariseau digs deeper at Cisco Live.

A computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon who is also the CEO, co-founder, and chairman of the board at a tech company has a uniquely multidimensional view of how recent developments relate to historical system design principles. He shares that perspective in this interview, from how Nvidia's NemoClaw aligns with the hourglass concept of system security to how its focus on the file system mirrors a longstanding debate in computer science. Featuring: Hui Zhang, co-founder, CTO and Chairman of the Board, Conviva In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Three significant aspects of NemoClaw Why NemoClaw is not the final piece of the puzzle The need for an end-to-end standard AI agent governance framework And more! References: Nvidia NemoClaw, JFrog shore up OpenClaw security NanoClaw AI agents find a home in Docker Sandboxes OpenClaw and Moltbook explained: The latest AI agent craze To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.

How can enterprise IT buyers choose among the plethora of AI automation tools now on the market from major vendors? Can they trust AI agent-driven infrastructure automation yet? Should they? Steven Dickens, CEO and principal analyst at HyperFrame Research, offers his answers to these questions and more from the show floor at Dell Technologies World. Featuring: Steven Dickens, CEO and principal analyst, HyperFrame Research In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Dell vs AI infrastructure competitors: size matters The rollout of Dell Automation Platform The agentic AIOps dilemma for IT organizations And more! References: Dell AI Factory gets rack-scale infrastructure refresh Red Hat AI updates target mounting cost, sovereignty worries AI assistants for IT ops: Select and govern operational bots To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.

During Dell Technologies World this week, Dell touted that its AI Factory with Nvidia has shipped to 5,000 companies in a little over two years. TechTarget senior news writer Beth Pariseau catches up with Dell SVP Varun Chhabra to break down who those customers are, how they're counted, how their AI workloads have evolved, and how Dell expects the AI Factory market to look in the future. Featuring: Varun Chhabra, senior vice president of product marketing, Dell Technologies In today’s episode, we’ll cover… "Desktop to data center" AI support with new NemoClaw integration The importance of data management to avoid bottlenecks in AI Lessons learned for enterprises transitioning from token consumers to token producers. And more! References: The AI factory model: What CIOs need to know Red Hat, Nvidia tighten integration with AI Factory AWS AI Factories target hybrid cloud AI infrastructure To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.

Can enterprises replace costly cloud-hosted models with self-managed, open-weight AI models to reduce AI inference costs? What are the consequences if they don't? A distinguished engineer working on emerging technologies in Red Hat's office of the CTO discusses his team's quest to answer these questions and his outlook on the future of enterprise AI. Featuring: Stephen Watt, Distinguished Engineer and Vice President, Office of the CTO, Red Hat In today’s episode, we’ll cover… What the 'cloud paradox' and the 'agentic paradox' have in common. Reinforcement learning and open weight models as a path to a hybrid cloud AI world. The Red Hat research team's experiments with AI automation. Tools in development to facilitate hybrid cloud AI inference deployments. And more! References: Red Hat AI updates target mounting cost, sovereignty worries Red Hat, Nvidia tighten integration with AI Factory Red Hat amps up open source AI infrastructure pitch To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.