IBM Concert Platform consolidates observability, optimization, protection, resilience, and operations into a single agentic-first architecture, replacing the siloed tooling and fragmented team structures that slow enterprise IT response. Jennifer Fitzgerald, Director of Product Management for IBM Observability, outlines how domain agents working together compress incident resolution from hours to minutes, how Concert Protect addresses the accelerating pace of vulnerability discovery, and why business continuity now requires treating health, performance, resilience, cost, and risk as a unified operational challenge.

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Jason Andersen and Mike Leone, Moor Insights & Strategy, and Brad Shimmin, Futurum, deliver their analyst recap of Google Cloud Next 2026, covering the shift to agentic enterprise workflows, Google's TPU-8 infrastructure strategy, the data platform's evolution into an agent runtime, Agent Gateway and Wiz security governance, and Google Cloud's competitive positioning relative to AWS and Microsoft heading into the second half of 2026.

Baha Azarmi, General Manager of Observability at Elastic, joins host Jason Andersen to discuss how agentic AI is advancing observability tools, enabling faster insights, automated operations, and improved root cause detection for modern IT teams.