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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 SplunkPatrick Lin, SVP & GM, Observability at Splunk
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
Splunk's special sauce for tokenomics
Claude Code integration through Observability Studio
How Agent Observability fits into corporate governance systems
And more!
References:
Splunk's path to autonomous AI starts with tightly constrained agents
Cisco Cloud Control unites AgenticOps for IT infrastructure
Cisco Galileo buy reflects blurring lines in AI observability
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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
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
What's missing from existing AI governance tools
What Dome's agent operations platform is and is NOT
Where Dome is headed now that it's shipped its first products
And more!
References:
The best AI governance tools and platforms in 2026
Who owns AI's decisions? Reengineering AI governance
How governance as code controls AI agent risk
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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.
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
Kubernetes and Tanzu integration
VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 9 migration
Broadcom's private cloud strategy
and more!
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References:
Enterprises make strides with private AI on-premises
Broadcom CEO doubles down on private cloud at VMware Explore

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 product officer, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
Broadcom's stance on sovereign AI and private AI
The hardware supply crisis in AI infrastructure
Broadcom's outlook on autonomous operations
And more!
References:
With VCF 9 'bedrock' in place, Broadcom fleshes out private AI
Nationwide bets on VCF as Broadcom responds to Tesco
More VMware customers jumping ship as contracts wind down
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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 Hugging Face
NVIDIA's announcements about AI systems and investment in Groq chips
...and more!
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References:Nvidia price hike will raise IT costs for all, analysts say 
Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source AI Platform Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion

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 management and employee training services. Fabel said he hopes that addressing the AI trust gap for sovereigns will move AI development beyond "the next cat picture generator" to medical research and other critical functions that would benefit society.
Featuring: Stephan Fabel, CEO, ThisWay Global
In today's episode, we'll cover:
Using sovereign clout to broaden access to AI infrastructure
Anticipating the next wave of AI regulation
What regulated enterprises can learn from sovereign AI entities
And more!
References:
UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups
IBM prepares hybrid cloud twist for sovereign AI
Sovereign AI explained: Everything you need to know
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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 than even multiple large IT vendors. Will the scope and scale of agentic AI security risks finally be what forces systemic change?
Featuring: Brian Gracely, senior director of portfolio strategy, Red Hat
In today's episode, we'll cover:
The state of industry debate about open-weight models
Agentic AI's effect on open source's "tragedy of the commons"
Lightwell's approach to OSS security
What enterprise IT leaders should know about open source sustainability and security going forward
And more!
References:
Red Hat and IBM, Chainguard take on OSS security risk
Cisco agentic AI security push faces enterprise trust gap
Open source software's tragedy of the commons
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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-founder, CTO and chief researcher sits down with IT Ops Query to discuss his work, and its industry-wide implications.
Featuring: Dr. Reza Nehzati, CTO and co-founder, HeyDonto
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
Data Field Theory, a new approach to how AI systems learn
Potential AI compliance implications with self-updating systems
How quantum physics can inform data intelligence
And more!
References:
Google unveils data cloud purpose built for agentic AI
Insightsoftware unifies semantic layer, governance to aid AI
Streaming specialist Confluent aims to drive rise of ‘contextual AI’
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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 safety and security will continue to develop.
Featuring: Ilya Kabanov, founder, TheWeatherReport.ai
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
What surprised Kabanov about changes in AI code security
The pros and cons of prompts, deterministic rules and "human-in-the-loop" for AI code security
AI safety and security in the wake of the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident
And more!
References:
OpenAI models escape containment, hack Hugging Face
AgenticOps for infrastructure faces a deterministic dilemma
Cisco agentic AI security push faces enterprise trust gap
Capability without security: measuring the functionality-security gap in AI-generated code
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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 overreliance on convenience and the importance of having clear intentions with technical tools rather than following the latest buzzwords.
Featuring: Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO, HashiCorp
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
The "Wall-E economy": Is social media the new cigarettes?
The pitfalls of "frictionless addiction" in business
Similarities between cloud and AI adoption trends
Dadgar's best-case scenario for the future of tech
And more!
References:
Nvidia adopts OpenBao, open source fork of HashiCorp's Vault
IBM Bob AI coding agent ships, HashiCorp AIOps previewed
IBM Apptio deepens FinOps ties with HashiCorp Terraform
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