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Chris Wade

Chris Wade is Co-Founder and CTO of Itential, responsible for guiding the innovation and development of the company's flagship infrastructure orchestration platform. He co-founded Itential in 2014 to accelerate network automation adoption and transform how enterprises operate complex infrastructure. Chris is a long-time advocate of automation and is now focused on the next evolution: agentic operations, where AI agents can reason, plan, and act while changes remain trusted, governed, and auditable. Under his technical leadership, Itential is advancing agentic orchestration that blends reasoning intelligence with deterministic automation to safely scale outcomes across cloud, network, and hybrid environments.

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Why the Next Wave of Infrastructure Automation Requires a Different Kind of Intelligence

Every decade or so, something fundamental shifts in how we think about infrastructure. Not an upgrade, a rethinking. Virtualization changed what infrastructure was. The cloud changed where it lived. Infrastructure as Code changed how it was defined. Each of those shifts felt incremental from the inside and transformative in hindsight. We’re at one of those […]

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The Power of Automation and Distributed Sources of Truth

Enterprise networks are vast, intricate systems with multiple methods for storing configuration and state information. The configurations of those networks are also constantly changing as new applications, services or other updates are added. When you consider the complexity and dynamic nature of an enterprise network, it may be alarming to learn how much data–including most […]

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