Building the AI-native enterprise: Why data, cloud and Agentic AI must work as one

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In this interaction, Venkatesh Thenkarai, Chief Delivery Officer, Bahwan CyberTek, discusses how enterprises can harness agentic AI to transform IT operations and decision-making, build AI-ready data ecosystems, optimise cloud investments through FinOps and intelligent operations, and balance innovation with sovereignty, security and regulatory requirements.

Agentic AI is rapidly emerging as the next evolution of enterprise automation. How do you see autonomous AI agents transforming cloud management, IT operations, and enterprise decision-making over the next few years?
I think the important shift with agentic AI is not that machines will become more conversational. It is that enterprise systems will increasingly move from detecting problems to deciding what should happen next and, within defined boundaries, executing the response themselves. That changes IT operations considerably.

Today, a large part of cloud and IT management still follows a chain of monitoring, alerting, ticket creation, human diagnosis and human intervention. Agents can compress that...

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