Riverbed Advances Autonomous IT Operations

Mike Vizard talks with Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed, about the company’s push toward autonomous IT operations and digital employee experience. Donatelli explains how Riverbed combines observability, agentic AI, MCP-based context, AI Assurance and automation to help IT teams prevent, detect and resolve issues across endpoints, networks and applications. The conversation also covers probabilistic AI risk, tool consolidation, rogue AI visibility, token usage, agent governance and why trusted data and enterprise control are essential for moving from reactive monitoring to prevention-first operations.