Beth Pariseau

Red Hat's twofold strategy to lower AI inference costs -- self-managed hybrid infrastructure and open-weight models -- has potential, experts say, but must be proven in practice.

One company moved 100 VMs after its VMware bill shot up ninefold; converts also cited compliance, growing feature parity and expanding partner support.

]: Dell claims its new PowerRack systems can be up and running in less than a day and begins connecting its AI stack with existing enterprise workloads.

Enterprise IT leaders at regulated companies keep a tight leash on AI agents for infrastructure as code, but some envision a new agentic front door for developer access.

Cisco Cloud Control presents a unified control plane and interface for AgenticOps spanning network management, security and observability tools.

Cisco sounds the alarm about agentic AI security, but while enterprises test new agentic defenses, it will take time and trust to put them to use.

Datadog observability tools now support BYOC, federated logs search and third-party SIEMs, expanding where customer data can be stored.

AWS AI agents beefed up DevSecOps capabilities, an area that has advanced significantly in recent months, intensifying competition among cloud vendors.

Human-in-the-loop and static rules don't scale. LLM-as-judge might break the bank. Can AI agents become reliable and affordable enough to handle the explosion of AI infrastructure?

An acquisition, a planned chip and a new transistor design could mitigate AI's energy and cost issues, but the effects will take time to reach enterprise buyers.