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According to one systems integrator, Apple laptops and Mac Minis can help bridge infrastructure gaps for companies early in the agentic AI development process who have a hard time getting their hands on GPU servers. In fact, in some cases, a cluster of three Apple laptops can outperform a GPU server at a fraction of the price.

Kush Patel, Chief Innovation Officer, Tusker

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Following IBM’s acquisition of HashiCorp, company leaders including Tyler Lynch stepped into new roles at IBM. In this interview, Lynch breaks down IBM's overall Automation portfolio, dives deep into the latest product updates around agentic security, details the role of products such as HashiCorp Vault and Terraform in those updates, and looks ahead to the future.

Featuring: Tyler Lynch, Outbound CTO, IBM Automation

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The world has undergone a "great storage squeeze" over the last year, as memory shortages have driven up storage prices across all markets. The pinch is felt most strongly in AI infrastructure buildouts, which demand massive capacity from data storage systems to supply frontier models and AI agents with relevant data, as well as high-performance delivery of that data. An experienced enterprise storage executive reflects on how AI could be both the cause of storage management woes and their potential remedy.

Featuring: Adrian Johnson, CRO, Hitachi Vantara

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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 cooling and thermal management technology. In this episode, he sheds light on emerging data center cooling approaches that demand less water, along with their trade-offs. He also discusses how the industry should respond to public controversy about AI data centers.

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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 that common techniques such as RAG and vectorizing data aren't enough to ensure quality results.

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IT Ops Query caught up with an AI infrastructure development executive from a global cooling and air-conditioning manufacturer at the Yotta 2026 conference in Las Vegas this week, to discuss the wide range of topics generating buzz at the show. Just a few of the fast-paced developments on the minds of data center operators: how to do a better job communicating with communities where new facilities are being built, how to keep up with the insatiable need for AI infrastructure capacity, and rethinking power and cooling designs to improve efficiency.

Featuring: Yong Tan, global vice president, AI infrastructure development, Airsys USA

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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 standards in agentic IT governance and certification. But now that he's built it, will industry stakeholders come? 

Featuring: Jim Ford, founder and architect, Equilateral AI 

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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 production.

Featuring: Vikram Chatterji, senior director of agent resilience at Splunk

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About a year after leaving HashiCorp following its acquisition by IBM, Dave McJannet is back with a proposed infrastructure substrate for the next platform shift brought about by AI agents. McJannet likens the state of today's AI governance to last decade's "Cloud 1.0." His new company, Dome Systems, anticipates the "2.0 moment" when initial hype and piecemeal automation approaches give way to more standardized automation.

Featuring: Dave McJannet, co-founder, Dome Systems

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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.

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