By By David Ramel02/05/2026
Publication Date: 2026-02-05 00:00:00
How to Scale Backend Infrastructure for the Age of Agentic AI
As autonomous agents and AI-driven systems take center stage, backend infrastructures are feeling the heat. Traditional architectures are being pushed to their limits by API traffic that is exploding not just in volume, but also in complexity and unpredictability.
In a virtual summit presented today from Virtualization & Cloud Review titled Managing API Traffic in the Age of Agentic Systems, we explored the challenges of scaling for machine-driven workloads. Presenter Greg Schulz, founder of Server StorageIO, detailed how the industry is moving from software-defined to API-defined infrastructure to meet these demands. It’s being made available for replay thanks to the sponsor A10 Networks.
We’re going from not just having software-defined data infrastructures to API-defined infrastructures as well as just regular workloads.”
Greg Schulz, founder of independent IT analyst firm Server StorageIO
The Rise of API-Defined Infrastructure
The transition to agentic systems is fundamentally altering the demand drivers for modern workloads. Schulz noted that the industry is evolving “from Software Defined to API Defined Infrastructure.” This shift is characterized by three primary metrics: volume,…
