CREDIT: NLIGHTEN into the hundreds or thousands. That model is being displaced by autonomous operations software capable of detecting, diagnosing and resolving faults without an engineer in the loop.
At HPE Discover in June, the vendor extended its networking strategy across data centre, campus and edge estates, pairing agentic AIOps with automated routing and security tooling designed to operate without manual intervention.
Dell has taken a similar path with its Automation Platform and Automation Studio, unveiled at DTW 2026, converting real-time, multi-domain telemetry into closed-loop, self-healing actions from the data centre core out to the edge.
Gartner forecasts that more than 60 % of large enterprises will adopt self-healing, AIOps-driven systems, reflecting how quickly autonomous operations have moved from pilot to procurement requirement. A single technician cannot economically service a network of hundreds of remote micro sites, so software must absorb detection and remediation work that used to sit with people. datacentremagazine. com 81