Only the biggest businesses are up to the challenge, says Redis CEO

Anyone scanning the news might think it's pedal to the metal as far as AI agent implementations go, but there is a slump in rollouts as many organizations figure out what to do next, Redis CEO Rowan Trollope told The Register.

The company behind the Redis database, which built a following as a cache in cloud application architecture to become the most popular database on AWS, is trying to help users get out of the lab with AI agent projects and into production.

Earlier this month, Gartner forecast that investment from software vendors and cloud providers would propel a trillion-dollar increase in AI spending this year as investment hits $2.52 trillion. Enterprise users, however, are in the "trough of disillusionment" as reactions to enterprise project pitches go from "that was a great idea" to "where's my revenue?" the research firm said.

Trollope said the phenomenon was reflected ...