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How to Build AI Agents for Enterprise Operations | Agent Builder Demo

Episode 4 of Resolve Reels is live! See how Agent Builder helps teams create purpose-built AI agents with the right guardrails, routing logic, and orchestration for enterprise operations. In this episode: Build specialized agents with defined responsibilities Improve routing with conversation starters and guardrails Test and operationalize agentic AI at scale This is how enterprises move toward Autonomous Operations and Zero Ticket IT.

The New Compliance Crisis: AI Is Outrunning Its Controls

Enterprises have spent decades refining compliance frameworks around workflows that were linear, predictable, and well-documented. These frameworks were built for systems that executed actions deterministically and for human operators who made decisions slowly enough for oversight to keep up. In that environment, compliance could function as a retrospective discipline because the evidence required to validate behavior generally existed in complete, stable form.

Why Network Operations Needs Data-Centric AI

The discussion around AI in infrastructure and operations has become increasingly model-centric. Teams want to know what model a platform uses, how current it is, how much reasoning capacity it has, and how quickly it can be updated as the model landscape shifts. Those are reasonable questions, but they tend to arrive too early. In production operations, the more consequential question is what happens to the data before any model is asked to interpret it.

Enhancing Your Search Skills with Liang Chen

What does it take to reinvent network visibility from the ground up? In this episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, Bob sits down with Liang Chen, Senior Network Architect at Texas Children’s Hospital and creator of a next-generation network traffic analyzer built for real-time, packet-level visibility. Liang shares how he built a platform capable of analyzing traffic at up to 200Gbps with zero packet loss—unlocking deeper network forensics and faster troubleshooting in mission-critical environments.

True Visibility: How Liang Chen is Rethinking Network Monitoring

What happens when deep networking expertise meets low-level programming and a passion for invention? In this episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, host Bob Slevin sits down with Liang Chen, Senior Network Architect at Texas Children's Hospital and a true innovator in network performance and visibility. With more than 25 years of experience in networking, plus advanced expertise in programming languages like C and Assembly, Liang has built his own next-generation traffic analysis platform from the ground up—designed to provide real-time, packet-level visibility at massive scale.

How to Monitor Applications and End User Experiences

In this video, see how Skylar One helps you understand the impact of changes on application performance and the end user experience. By tracking service level metrics across an e commerce environment, you can quickly identify when performance degrades and how it affects user behavior. Explore how Skylar One enables: With Skylar One, teams can quickly connect performance changes to real user impact, helping ensure a consistent and reliable digital experience.

What Leading Engineering Teams Teach Us About Operational Truth

Modern operational environments are intricate ecosystems shaped by distributed architectures, accelerating change cycles, and a constant influx of telemetry. The complexity itself is not the issue. The issue is how teams construct understanding inside that complexity. After years of expansion across cloud, edge, third-party services, and internal modernization efforts, many organizations now have abundant data but limited confidence in the meanings behind it.

How Modern Ops Lost Their Bearings

Modern operations carry a quiet contradiction. Organizations have never had more data, more dashboards, or more instrumentation, yet teams increasingly struggle to gain a reliable sense of what the environment is actually doing. The problem is not the absence of information. It is the absence of bearings. This drift did not happen suddenly. It accumulated across years of transformation.

Operational Intelligence and the Hidden Structure in System Logs

Most IT teams do not suffer from a lack of data. They suffer from the amount of effort required to make sense of it. Every network device, application, cloud service, and infrastructure component generates a constant stream of machine output. Logs capture state changes, failures, retries, warnings, and thousands of other small signals about how systems behave. The problem is that raw logs are hard to use at operational speed.