AI Agents and MCP Protocol: Randy Bias Predicts the End of Custom Agents in 2026
Mirantis VP Randy Bias forecasts three major AI shifts for 2026: MCP protocol becomes standard, general purpose ...
How Akamai and Redpanda Deliver Real-Time Streaming at the Edge for AI Workloads
Prenil Kottayankandy of Akamai and Zeke Dean of Redpanda explain how their partnership brings high-performance data streaming ...
Why 2026 Is the Year of Agent-Ready Databases | Bianca Lewis, OpenSearch Software Foundation
Vector search is table stakes. Bianca Lewis, Executive Director of OpenSearch Software Foundation, shares predictions for agent-ready ...
Future-Proofing AI: Why MCP Standards Beat Custom Agents in Rapidly Evolving Tech | TFiR
Randy Bias, VP of Technology & Strategy at Mirantis, explains how to future-proof AI implementations when technology ...
Why Custom AI Agents May Be Unnecessary: Mirantis’ MCP Server Factory Approach | TFiR
Randy Bias, VP of Technology & Strategy at Mirantis, challenges the custom AI agent approach. Learn why ...
AI Infrastructure Reality: Why Enterprise Projects Will Struggle in 2026 | Rob Hirschfeld, RackN | TFiR
Rob Hirschfeld, CEO of RackN, shares hard truths about 2026: AI infrastructure challenges, VMware renewal realities, ...
Why Production Operations—Not Coding—Is the Real Killer App for AI Agents
While everyone focuses on AI coding assistants, Randy Bias reveals the bigger opportunity: production operations. Mirantis ...
AI Threats Outpace Security Teams: Vanta’s Jeremy Epling on Closing the Trust Gap
Fifty-nine percent of security leaders admit AI threats move faster than their expertise. Jeremy Epling, CPO of ...
Cloud Exit Planning: Why Long-Term Contracts Need Emergency Budgets | John Bradshaw, Akamai
John Bradshaw of Akamai breaks down cloud concentration risk, exit planning strategies, and the evolution from FinOps ...
Why Most Enterprise AI Projects Fail at Production and How Couchbase Aims to Fix It | Rahul Pradhan
Most enterprise AI projects never reach production due to fragmented infrastructure. Rahul Pradhan, SVP at Couchbase, ...