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Microsoft's Brendan Burns on the future of AI infrastructure
26 minutes Posted Feb 19, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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Microsoft corporate vice president and Kubernetes project co-founder Brendan Burns envisions a long-term transition in the industry from declarative cloud-native infrastructure to intent-based infrastructure, facilitated by AI. In the short term, the impact of AI on enterprise infrastructure will be strongest in two major areas, according to Burns: reducing toil through automation and improving data summarization with natural language-based infrastructure exploration.  As enterprises adjust to these changes, Burns emphasized that IT leaders should get hands-on, firsthand experience with AI automation tools.
Featuring: Brendan Burns, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
The KAITO open source project and Kubernetes evolution for AI
AI governance and control
What needs to change about companies' mindsets to best use AI
and more!
References:
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