In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis breaks down the real barriers preventing large enterprises from deploying agentic AI at scale.

After gathering direct input from enterprise leaders across the ONUG community, a clear pattern emerged: the blockers are not model performance or innovation. They are trust, security, and governance.

Nick outlines the prioritized requirements enterprises say must be solved before agentic AI can move from experimentation to production. From non-human identity and lifecycle management to runtime behavior enforcement, data and content guardrails, zero trust across multiple trust domains, and secure orchestration, this episode reframes the conversation around what truly matters for scalable adoption.

If your organization is exploring AI agents but struggling with control, compliance, or cross-domain risk, this episode defines the problem set and the path forward.

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As enterprises rush to prepare for AI, most of the attention is focused on models, GPUs, and applications. But what if the real starting point isn’t AI at all?

In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis sits down with Patrick Heinz from Ameriprise to explore why observability is the true foundation of AI-ready infrastructure. Patrick draws on decades of experience spanning service providers, startups, and large enterprises to explain why AI systems depend on continuous, high-quality data and why visibility across networks, applications, and service providers is no longer optional.

The conversation dives into synthetic path monitoring, breaking down data silos, contextualizing massive volumes of telemetry, and how “data without context is dangerous.” Patrick also shares real-world examples of how improved visibility builds trust with users, operations teams, and service providers while reducing outages, escalations, and firefighting.

If you’re thinking about AI readiness, automation, or agentic systems, this episode makes one thing clear: you can’t automate what you can’t see, and trust starts with visibility.

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In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis shares firsthand observations from ongoing conversations with enterprise IT leaders and technology providers across the industry.

Nick explores the growing divide between AI-first enterprises that are moving aggressively into large-scale deployments and organizations that are still evaluating where AI fits, how to justify the investment, and how to manage risk. He unpacks why some enterprises remain quiet about their AI initiatives, how concerns around GPUs, cost, and power are shaping infrastructure decisions, and what’s driving the shift toward cloud-based versus on-prem AI strategies.

The discussion also dives into how security and networking are becoming native components of AI infrastructure, why the control plane for agentic AI remains undefined, and how incumbent enterprise vendors are repositioning to close the gap between ambition and execution.

This episode offers a grounded look at where enterprise AI really stands today, not the hype, but the reality from the field.

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