A Conversation with Arturo Oliver (ScienceLogic)
Stop focusing on reducing time for incident recovery (MTTR), AI-enabled observability tools can identify and prevent issues before they occur.
A Conversation with Rich Corbridge
While automation, orchestration and agentic AI are key technologies at Segro, Rich explains that collaboration with the business teams has been the key to defining priorities and identifying opportunities, driving deployment of new AI-based workbenches, avoiding the need for ERP replacement.
Driving Change – Becoming an I&O Intrapreneur
Dan Twing and I return to the theme of shifting enterprise I&O (including automation) to an entrepreneurial focus that shapes and prioritizes initiatives that have measurable business outcomes.
AI Automation Anxiety – Back to Fundamentals
While there is a great deal of hype around AI's ability to completely change enterprise IT, from an automation perspective it is just another technology to be integrated and orchestrated.
Takeaways from Gartner IO&CS 2025 (Las Vegas)
IO&CS reflected a realistic and pragmatic perspective of how AI is rapidly changing enterprise I&O, while acknowledging that autonomous AI's contribution to improved operations is years away, and that the cost of AI tools is likely to rise to pay for the huge costs of building AI data centers.
EAE Retrospective: 26 Episodes, 5 Themes, and What's Next
An analysis of past EAE episodes, highlighting the themes that connect the shows together: Orchestration, AI, Skill Gaps, Business Value, Strategic Thinking, and Change Management & Governance. 2026 will continue this focus, as well as bringing more practitioners and industry experts as guests.
AI Tools in DevOps Survey Results
Enterprise adoption of AI development tools is happening more quickly than expected, changing how developers work and impacting existing processes for change and release management. The rapid adoption has forced I&O leaders to catch up, driving changes to automation, security, risk management…
I&O Resilience Is Not Optional
Infrastructure failures are going to happen, I&O leaders need to understand how dependencies may cause outages to critical business processes, take steps to reduce the likelihood and impact, and engage with stakeholders and executives to agree on acceptable risk levels and mitigation strategies.
Axistra Group will be at Gartner IO&CS 2025
Tom O'Rourke will be attending Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies 2025 in Las Vegas (December 9-11)
The Business Case for Automation Investments
Getting approval for new automation investments requires building a business case with a cost analysis, expected business benefit, and assessment of project complexity and risk.