Agent runtimes emerge as the enterprise app servers powering production AI
Because traditional app servers can’t handle the bursty, stateful, multi‑step nature of AI agents, a new class of ‘agent runtimes’ is emerging to manage state, tool orchestration, security, and GPU‑accelerated inference. Deploying agents on these platforms is becoming essential to avoid the costly cancellations Gartner warns about and to deliver enterprise‑grade reliability.