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Selector Named as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Agentic NetOps Software

Jul 10, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Network teams have never been short on expertise. What they are short on is time. As enterprise environments stretch across on-premises infrastructure, cloud, and service-provider domains, the work of investigating issues, validating changes, and coordinating a response across tools and teams has outrun what human-driven operations can sustain.
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When One Agent Plans and Another Executes, the Planner's View Decides Everything

Jul 2, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Split network operations into a planning agent and an executing agent and you have an elegant design on paper. One agent reasons about what should change and validates it. The other carries it out. The elegance is real, and so is the structural consequence: the split puts the entire weight of judgment on the planner. A plan built on a partial view, then executed precisely and at machine speed, is more dangerous than a cautious human who would have hesitated at the part that did not add up.
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Building More Resilient Multi-Cloud Operations

Jun 12, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
The last post in this series looked at how disconnected alerts can slow incident response and how stronger correlation helps teams investigate issues with more clarity. That same operational context has value beyond triage. It also plays an important role in resilience, service assurance, and the ability to maintain confidence across increasingly complex multi-cloud environments. Resilience depends on more than reacting well during an outage.
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Turning Disconnected Alerts into Actionable Insights

Jun 5, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
The previous post in this series focused on shared context and why hybrid operations depend on a connected view across cloud, network, and infrastructure. Once that context is in place, the operational benefits become easier to see—especially during incident response, where signal volume and fragmented tooling can slow teams down. Alert noise remains one of the most persistent challenges in hybrid environments. Every layer of the stack can generate its own warnings, anomalies, and service events.
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What Enterprise AI Gets Wrong About Usage

Jun 3, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
AI is moving out of the experimental phase and into the everyday rhythm of work. Teams are no longer using it occasionally for novelty or quick wins, but instead are exploring more robust use cases to investigate issues, answer questions faster, surface context, and help them move through complex workflows with more confidence. That’s the shift that most organizations’ leadership teams have been asking for.
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Why Shared Context Matters in Hybrid Cloud Operations

May 29, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
The first post in this series explored why traditional observability breaks down in hybrid cloud environments. As infrastructure, applications, and dependencies stretch across on-premises networks and cloud services, isolated monitoring views leave teams with an incomplete understanding of what is happening and why. That challenge raises the next question: what kind of operational model actually works in a hybrid environment?
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Game On: What Retro Gaming Teaches Us About Modern Networks with Jeremy Bradberry

May 27, 2026 By Selector In Selector
What can decades of hands-on operational experience teach us about the future of AI-driven networking? In this episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, host Bob Slevin sits down with Jeremy Bradberry, Senior Network Engineer at Delaware North, for a conversation that spans everything from legacy manufacturing systems and mainframes to modern AI-assisted network operations. Jeremy shares how his early career working in industrial environments shaped the way he approaches networking today, giving him what he calls an “X-ray vision” into how technology connects directly to business operations.
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Bridging Bedrock Skills with AI: A Conversation with Jeremy Bradberry

May 27, 2026 By Selector In Selector
What happens when decades of operational experience meet modern AI-driven networking? In the latest episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, Bob Slevin sits down with Jeremy Bradberry, Senior Network Engineer at Delaware North, to explore how network engineers can modernize infrastructure without losing sight of the operational realities behind the technology. Jeremy shares lessons learned from working on legacy manufacturing systems, how AI is helping engineers analyze data and automate workflows faster than ever before, and why strong standards still matter in today’s AI era.
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Why Traditional Observability Breaks Down in Hybrid Cloud Environments

May 22, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Hybrid cloud has reshaped the way enterprises build, run, and troubleshoot digital services. Applications now stretch across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, regional services, interconnects, and distributed dependencies that change constantly. Operational complexity has expanded with that footprint, yet many observability practices still reflect assumptions from an earlier era of simpler architectures and clearer boundaries. That gap shows up fast during an incident.
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