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Andy Thurai, The Field CTO, Joins the BSM Blog

Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Andy Thurai, an IT Operations and AIOps consultant with the brand "The Field CTO," has joined the BSM Blog on APMdigest.

Thurai is an IT professional with 25+ years of experience in executive, technical, and architectural leadership positions at companies such as IBM and Oracle. He is a recognized thought leader in AI, IoT, API, Big Data, Analytics, Security, Cloud, Mobility, and SOA, and has collaborated with MIT, Harvard, and many start-up eco-systems. Thurai has been keynote speaker in many major conferences, and he has written 100+ articles on emerging technology topics for magazines such as Forbes.

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Andy Thurai, The Field CTO, Joins the BSM Blog

Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Andy Thurai, an IT Operations and AIOps consultant with the brand "The Field CTO," has joined the BSM Blog on APMdigest.

Thurai is an IT professional with 25+ years of experience in executive, technical, and architectural leadership positions at companies such as IBM and Oracle. He is a recognized thought leader in AI, IoT, API, Big Data, Analytics, Security, Cloud, Mobility, and SOA, and has collaborated with MIT, Harvard, and many start-up eco-systems. Thurai has been keynote speaker in many major conferences, and he has written 100+ articles on emerging technology topics for magazines such as Forbes.

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Part 4 outlines the challenges enterprise face when adopting AI observability. The main challenge is that AI complexity compounds at every stage of maturity. LLM-based applications introduce new behavior, dependencies, and quality considerations, while Agentic AI adds further failure modes as systems make decisions and take actions ...

Part 3 reports on the current state of AI observability. Most experts agree: enterprises are moving faster with AI than they are with the operational discipline needed to run it safely ...

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AI, automation, and enterprise software give organizations an extraordinary amount of leverage. Work that once required hours can happen in minutes. Information buried across systems can be analyzed almost instantly. Complex workflows can be coordinated across teams with far less manual intervention. That leverage creates a temptation to start with the technology ...

Everyone wants to talk about models. Compute clusters. Benchmark scores that climb a fraction of a point and make headlines anyway. It's an easy conversation to have because it's measurable. But it's also increasingly beside the point ...

For more than a decade, the default infrastructure play has been simple. Move more workloads to the cloud, retire on-premises gear and treat the data center as a cost to shrink. That logic held while public cloud offered near-limitless capacity at predictable prices, and AI demand is now testing both halves of that assumption ...

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