The real cost, security, and culture problems behind enterprise AI agents

Presented by Red Hat At VentureBeat's recent AI Impact event, where the discussion centered on what separates enterprises that scale agentic AI from those that stall in pilot mode, Brian Gracely, senior director of portfolio strategy at Red Hat, detailed what companies actually run into once agents reach production. He dove into cost discipline, the security blind spots unique to autonomous systems, and the organizational friction that determines whether agent