HPE AI Agents Cut Root Cause Analysis Time in Half

HPE AI Agents Cut Root Cause Analysis Time in Half

By Jennifer Riggins
Publication Date: 2026-03-25 14:14:00

Operational fatigue, in the face of increasing complexity and risks, is a real problem. Can partnerships with skills-based AI agents offer a solution?

AI has quickly become a trusted collaborator or “co-pilot” throughout the software development lifecycle. Particularly in the operations space, systems administrators, DevOps, and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams have embraced prompt-based conversational AI to assist in the still-overwhelmingly manual execution of incident response. Generative AI is enabling operations and security teams to move even further away from TicketOps.

Until now, the security, compliance, and always-on availability requirements of most operations teams have left them reluctant to move to the next stage of agent AI. That could be about to change.

Given the complexity and expansion of enterprise IT, Phanidhar Kogantidistinguished senior technologist in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Hybrid Cloudsays The new stack Those operations are entering their “Agentic Era”, where AI…