In this CUBE Conversation, Dave Donatelli, chief executive officer of Riverbed, joins theCUBE's John Furrier to discuss the company's third-generation AI platform and its push toward full IT autonomy. Donatelli frames 2025 as the year when foundational bets made years earlier begin paying off in real, measurable outcomes. He details how Riverbed's centralized data store — collecting telemetry across applications, networks and devices — underpins a unified agent that collapses APM, NPM and device management into a single platform. With over 300 million autonomous operations completed and 59 customers running at least 10,000 automated workflows per month, Donatelli underscores that AI at Riverbed means machines resolving issues before humans ever notice them.
The conversation also explores the six new capabilities Riverbed is launching, anchored by IQ 4.0, a second-generation agentic intelligence layer that adds contextual awareness and MCP-driven LLM routing to cut past the 25% error rates Gartner attributes to generic large language models. Donatelli breaks down AI Assurance — Riverbed's new framework for tracking which AI models are running inside an enterprise, how much they cost and how agentic applications are performing. He also details Data Express, a SaaS-based solution that moves data 10 times faster, compressing 30-day model reloads down to three days. On the financial side, Donatelli shares that customers are seeing five-to-one returns on their Riverbed investment, with some reaching ten-to-one through smart hardware refresh and software utilization analytics. From collapsing IT silos with a unified agent strategy to giving every practitioner a natural language interface into complex observability data, Donatelli outlines a roadmap for how enterprises can achieve genuine autonomous operations while keeping ROI firmly in focus.
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Dave Donatelli, Riverbed | AI Autonomous Operations
May 26, 2026
David Donatelli
CEORiverbed
John Furrier
Co-Founder & Co-CEOSiliconANGLE Media, Inc.
HOST
In this CUBE Conversation, Dave Donatelli, chief executive officer of Riverbed, joins theCUBE's John Furrier to discuss the company's third-generation AI platform and its push toward full IT autonomy. Donatelli frames 2025 as the year when foundational bets made years earlier begin paying off in real, measurable outcomes. He details how Riverbed's centralized data store — collecting telemetry across applications, networks and devices — underpins a unified agent that collapses APM, NPM and device management into a single platform. With over 300 million autonom...Read more
