Ed Featherston

Technology Evangelist / Enterprise/Cloud Architect #cloudcomputing #entarch #blockchain #ciochat tweets my own
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[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

To all my #ciochat HigherEd folks, what timing, with finals happening for many.
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[DavidLinthicum @DavidLinthicum]

Common Control Planes Will Become Standard for Agentic AI

Just announced at #IbmThink 

One of the biggest challenges in enterprise AI right now is not building agents. It’s managing them in production.

As enterprises move beyond experimentation, they’re deploying AI agents across different clouds, frameworks, platforms, and operating environments. That creates exactly the kind of complexity you would expect: fragmented orchestration, inconsistent security, uneven governance, limited observability, and far too much glue code holding everything together.

That’s why a centralized control plane for agents is such a smart move.

IBM appears to have recognized this with watsonx Orchestrate. It looks like a move toward a common layer for orchestration, governance, security, and operations across heterogeneous agent deployments.

I’m designing many of these architectures for enterprises right now, and this issue comes up every time. We almost always end up solving it with a hodgepodge of technologies that were never really designed to work together as a unified operational model for agentic systems.

That approach may work in the short term, but it does not scale well. It’s expensive, brittle, hard to govern, and increasingly difficult to secure.

My view is that common control planes will become standard equipment for most enterprise agentic deployments. The market is moving beyond the question of how to build intelligent agents. The bigger question is how to manage large numbers of them across complex, mixed environments without creating operational chaos.

That’s the real value here. Enterprise AI success will not come from intelligence alone. It will come from reducing the complexity of heterogeneous AI deployments behind common control planes.

Looks like IBM got the memo.

#AI #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #IBM #watsonx #CloudComputing #AIOperations #Governance #Security #Orchestration #DigitalTransformation

Manage all your AI agents in one place with watsonx Orchestrate https://t.co/v4quTCjiXq

[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

. @smerconish Scott Galloway a great guest, thoughtful and logical perspectives

[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

@dhinchcliffe @55moremoney @AnthropicAI @OpenAI @TheFuturumGroup @YvesMulkers @joemckendrick @ashimmy @EvanKirstel @antgrasso @TamaraMcCleary @david_terrar @thomaspower I am going to need an AI Agent to explain the cost model of my AI Agents (went through a presentation of Microsofts licensing model a few weeks ago, my head is still spinning lol)

[Dion Hinchcliffe @dhinchcliffe]

@55moremoney @AnthropicAI @OpenAI @TheFuturumGroup @YvesMulkers @joemckendrick @ashimmy @EvanKirstel @efeatherston @antgrasso @TamaraMcCleary @david_terrar @thomaspower I’m afraid that’s right. AI token costs are going to rise quite a lot, because agents can create value so easily/quickly.

But it’s still much cheaper than human labor. So there is plenty of available budget to “hire AI” when you look it that way.

[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

.@smerconish You are conflating 2 separate questions, Should Iran get a Nuclear Weapon and Is this war justified at this moment in time. You also leave out all the innocent lives being lost. for 50 yrs Iran has been weeks away from having a bomb, why now?

[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

Thats not how i was taught math, percentages, and statistics. Literally just making things up with false logic

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'"

Trump: "Right"

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'"

Trump: "Right"

[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

@dhinchcliffe An interesting perspective, definitely a changing paradigm. Another layer of abstraction, that can potentially provide great value with the caveat of also potentially muddying the waters of where the data is sourced. Agent washing will abound lol

[Dion Hinchcliffe @dhinchcliffe]

The “API is the UI.”

It is indeed. As agents do more and more interaction with our software for us, agentically, they must use APIs.

The API, for AI, is literally the UI + it’ll be how work gets done.

The real issue: Agents will disintermediate tech firms from their customers.

[DavidLinthicum @DavidLinthicum]

Companies fail by over-relying on AI, neglecting human creativity and empathy. True business success hinges on balancing technology with the irreplaceable human touch. #BusinessStrategy #AICreativity #HumanElement

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Tucker Carlson: “I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. And I want to say that I’m sorry for misleading people.”

[DavidLinthicum @DavidLinthicum]

Enterprises aren't adopting new tech as fast as vendors expect. Legacy systems, regulations, and culture often block adoption. There's a huge gap between tech providers' vision and enterprises' reality. #TechAdoption #AI #Enterprise

[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

@lisamurkowski Seriously? Not even a slight condemnation, just hope its nothing but posturing? Even if that was the case, using this threat as posturing would be okay with you? I use to have respect for you, but you are obviously afraid to even hint at saying something against Trump

[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

@hodgetwins @jpegsupreme So killing innocent civilians not a deal breaker for you, good to know

[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

@tjmaxx This is the problem, I(we) don't have an account, that is what we are trying to get resolved. Syncrhony bank were the ones i described above that were not helping at all. This is fraud against you and no one seems interested

[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

. @tjmaxx My wife use to have a credit card with you, back in 2020, not since. She just got an email saying her Jan payment is overdue. She no longer has an account. Your online support was not able to help. We have received nothing in mail, have no card, what do I do???

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JUST IN: Renee Nicole Good, 37, has been identified as the woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

Her mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that her daughter “was probably terrified” when she tried to drive away and that she was “not part of anything like that at all,” referring to protests against ICE.

[Ed Featherston @efeatherston]

They would do nothing without an account number (which I don't have since we don't have a card) or SSN (which we are not handing out, would not even let me talk to a supervisor). My next options are state attorney general and a lawyer i guess unless you can help

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!!

Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!