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Reimagining Infrastructure in the Agentic AI Era
The Shift Is Already Here Every few decades, infrastructure leaders face a turning point. Virtualization. The cloud. Infrastructure as Code. Each wave has forced us to rethink how we design, build, and operate the critical systems our businesses depend on. Today, Agentic AI represents the next great inflection point. And just like the shifts before
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Why Being Late to Automation Might Be the Smartest Move You Ever Made
In 2025, being late to automation is no longer a disadvantage - it’s an opportunity. Organizations starting their automation journey today can leapfrog legacy challenges, adopt AI-native orchestration, and build smarter, more compliant systems from day one. The Conversations That Sparked This Thought In recent weeks, I’ve spent time with our sales, marketing, pre-sales, and
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Practitioner’s Take: When Automation Becomes the Bottleneck
For years, I’ve talked with engineers who are caught in the same cycle: they start automating with good intentions, a few Python scripts here, an Ansible playbook there. It works. It saves time. It even feels empowering. But at some point, that success turns on itself. The scripts multiply. Ownership blurs. Debugging becomes a weekly
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From Automation to Autonomy: Building Trust in the Age of Intelligent Networks
A few weeks ago, while in London, I sat down with Ian Smith on the BASELINE Podcast for a candid conversation about AI, automation, and the future of network operations. In Part 1, we explored how automation can unlock human potential – the first step in transforming how enterprises think about efficiency and scale. (🎧
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From Scripts to Systems: Why Orchestration is the Missing Link in AI Adoption
Every enterprise leader I talk to today is thinking about AI. Some are testing models, others are piloting use cases, and nearly all are trying to understand how AI fits into their existing automation strategy. Yet a common theme keeps surfacing – progress feels slower than expected. That’s not because teams lack talent or ambition.
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From Automation to Agentic AI: Lumen’s Journey to Self-Driving Networks
From Automation to Agentic AI Lumen’s Journey to Self-Driving Networks As AI reshapes the fabric of digital infrastructure, network leaders are redefining how scale, reliability, and intelligence coexist. In this session from Selector’s AI Summit for Network Leaders, Greg Freeman, Vice President of Network Customer Transformation at Lumen Technologies, shares the five-year transformation journey that
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From Friction to Flow: Why MCP Matters for NetOps
Automation is a function of friction. Jeremy Schulman nailed it on his recent Packet Pushers podcast with Total Network Operations when he said that. Every ticket, every brittle script, every tribal-process that lives only in someone’s head is friction. And friction is the enemy of scale. Friction is the ticket backlog that never shrinks. It’s
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From Vibe-Coding Automation Scripts to Self-Service: Turning Code Into Products
Most network teams I talk to share the same frustration: scripts never scale. A clever bit of Python lives on someone’s laptop, but getting it into production - governed, reusable, and consumable by others - feels like climbing a mountain. Tickets pile up, approvals slow everything down, and the promise of automation gets stuck in
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Automation & AI in Austin, Getting Started with MCP, & More
Welcome to another edition of Itential Insights. Here’s what you’ll find this month: A first look at Network Automation Forum's AutoCon 4, where automation and AI converge to define the next era of network innovation A step-by-step guide to connecting AI to your infrastructure with Itential MCP. Insights from EMA Research, Armstrong, and Itential on
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