I&O Automation

Enterprise automation and orchestration, including concepts, technologies, integration and business value.

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.

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…