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Data centers and their resource demands on surrounding communities have become national political news as AI infrastructure grows. Meanwhile, the industry's focus is about to shift again, from training frontier AI models to AI inference, which calls for smaller, more distributed facilities and raises a different set of potential concerns.

Henry Cubillan is senior vice president of Americas Commercial for Kelvion, a manufacturer of ...

Komprise has amassed $85 million in funding and multiple patents for its metadatabase, which lends structure to unstructured data. Data processing is increasingly in the spotlight as enterprise AI struggles to reach production.

"It's garbage in, garbage out," according to Krishna Subramanian, COO at Komprise, something more enterprises are realizing as they develop context engineering practices for AI agents. But Subramanian argues...

A recent whitepaper by the founder of a fledgling think tank identifies three common failure modes in agentic AI governance, chief among them the idea that AI models can be trusted to govern themselves. That founder, and the six companies he's founded, propose a new way to more effectively bind and guide AI agents – from the outside. In this episode, he shares with IT Ops Query his multi-faceted proposals for new industry sta...

Splunk .conf 26 in Denver was the coming-out party for the Cisco subsidiary's Agent Observability tool, which combines continuous behavior evaluation with troubleshooting and security features to keep autonomous agents in line. Two Splunk executives break down new Tokenomics and Observability Studio features introduced for the GA release, and share trends they see among enterprise customers preparing for autonomous AI agents in pro...

VMware Explore 2026 carried a noticeably different energy than in previous years, according to attendees. Beth Pariseau was on the ground at the conference and brings back the major headlines, emerging industry themes, and critical insights into how private AI and cloud infrastructure strategies are shifting in real time.

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

• Kubernetes and Tanzu integration
• VMware Cloud Foundati...

VMware Cloud Foundation, VCF AI Services, VMware Private AI Cloud, VMware AI Factory, Tanzu, vDefend…what's the difference? Where's Nvidia in all this? What's Broadcom's stance on open source and open-weight models, especially with Nvidia reportedly buying Hugging Face? Beth Pariseau caught up with a Broadcom exec to sort out these questions as VMware Explore kicked off this week in Las Vegas.

Featuring: Paul Turner, chief p...

NVIDIA has been in a few major headlines in the last week. In this episode, we explore the company's latest financial results and strategic moves that have made the news, as well as the implications of the global memory shortage on enterprise IT.

Featuring: Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer, TechTarget

In today's episode, we cover...

• Implications of anticipated price hikes for enterprise IT
• NVIDIA's potential acquisition of Hu...

After building and running Nvidia's DGX AI supercomputing service for nearly six years, Stephan Fabel left the AI infrastructure giant in April to take on the role of CEO at ThisWay Global. That company is an AI infrastructure service provider targeting sovereign entities, including state and national governments and public research institutions. In addition to infrastructure capacity and orchestration, the company offers risk mana...

Red Hat and its parent company, IBM, have been among the most vocal advocates for an open ecosystem to mitigate the new risks emerging in the agentic AI era. In the past three months, the two companies have been part of multiple efforts to shore up open source software security and supply chains. However, in many ways, the longstanding issues in the industry with open source sustainability and cybersecurity diligence are bigger tha...

Imagine if, instead of building knowledge graphs mapping the relationships and semantic meaning behind raw data ahead of time, networks of AI agents could build their own, instantly. That's what DFT Labs, a new venture of a company called HeyDonto, proposes, along with a new set of benchmarks that gauge not just how well AI models predict the next token, but how well they actually understand and preserve data context. HeyDonto's co...

Recent research by an independent AI safety and security research lab, TheWeatherReport.ai, by MIT research affiliate and former Google senior manager of cloud AI safety and security, showed that AI code security gains are not keeping pace with functionality gains between generations of frontier models. He talks through the implications of these findings, how IT organizations can protect themselves, and his outlook for how AI safet...

How many hours did you spend on social media today? Have you sent an AI note-taker to a meeting instead of attending? According to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, the answers to these questions and how people approach technology -- especially social media and AI -- will determine whether we face dystopia or a healthy society. In this candid conversation, Dadgar shares his concerns about the risks of AI, including ove...

Moritz Plassnig, appointed CEO of Jenkins commercial steward CloudBees last month, succeeds Anuj Kapur, who steered the company to revenue growth, profitability and product focus. Plassnig's mandate is to steer CloudBees into the agentic AI coding era, with a focus on providing cohesive AI governance across multiple models and coding tools. The vendor will also look to compress the feedback loop between production apps and developm...

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 evolu...

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 c...

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 a...

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 ...

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...