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Microsoft's Brendan Burns on the future of AI infrastructure


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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:

    • Cloud infrastructure suffers AI growing pains
    • Microsoft Foundry ties in with Agent 365
    • Kubernetes AI progress in 2025 and the road ahead
    • SREs map uncharted territory with LLMOps
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