Abhinav Puri of SUSE, vice president and general manager portfolio and community, appears at SUSECON 2026. Paul Nashawaty of theCUBE Research, practice lead and principal analyst, interviews Puri about SUSE's strategy for autonomous agentic enterprise infrastructure. Puri describes how enterprises must prioritize choice and control while closing the production gap between experimentation and measurable return on investment. They examine transitioning from managed to autonomous infrastructure, SUSE's "nervous system" metaphor, MCP servers, and scaling artificial intelligence, AI, from developer laptops to large deployments.
Puri asserts that organizations require deterministic guardrails for non-deterministic AI agents to contain impact and protect intellectual property. They advise avoiding vendor lock-in to maintain control over data and processes and to adopt platforms that scale from edge deployments to AI "super factories." Nashawaty frames 2026 as a shift from experimentation to production, emphasizing the need for secure sovereign infrastructure and measurable ROI.
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Abhniav Puri, SUSE
Abhinav Puri of SUSE, vice president and general manager portfolio and community, appears at SUSECON 2026. Paul Nashawaty of theCUBE Research, practice lead and principal analyst, interviews Puri about SUSE's strategy for autonomous agentic enterprise infrastructure. Puri describes how enterprises must prioritize choice and control while closing the production gap between experimentation and measurable return on investment. They examine transitioning from managed to autonomous infrastructure, SUSE's "nervous system" metaphor, MCP servers, and scaling artificial intelligence, AI, from developer laptops to large deployments.
Puri asserts that organizations require deterministic guardrails for non-deterministic AI agents to contain impact and protect intellectual property. They advise avoiding vendor lock-in to maintain control over data and processes and to adopt platforms that scale from edge deployments to AI "super factories." Nashawaty frames 2026 as a shift from experimentation to production, emphasizing the need for secure sovereign infrastructure and measurable ROI.
In this interview from SUSECON 2026, Abhinav Puri, general manager of portfolio and community at SUSE, joins theCUBE Research's Paul Nashawaty to discuss how open-source infrastructure is evolving from passive platform to intelligent, autonomous foundation for the modern enterprise. Puri opens by reframing resilience — no longer about uptime but about an organization's capacity to absorb shock from geopolitical, technological and financial disruptions. He argues that as AI agents become embedded in core workflows, enterprises risk surrendering control over pr...Read more
