Data, Data Everywhere - Why Your AI Strategy Requires a New Approach to Storage

Once affordable only to massive research organizations, AI solutions are now accessible to any business. Across industries and segments, organizations are leveraging various forms of AI to streamline business operations, improve customer experience, and identify new revenue streams. As a result, businesses are scrambling to amass data of every kind, from any source: operational metrics, customer behavioral information, financial data, market trends, climate and environmental information, and more.

But where will they put it all? Exponential data growth—estimated to grow at a 61% compound annual growth rate, exceeding 175ZB worldwide by 2025—cannot simply be handled by adding clusters to traditional storage.

In this report, Stratecast looks at why the demands of the digital era require enterprises to rethink their approach to storage. We consider the requirements to support AI workloads, and why traditional storage is inadequate. Finally, we take a look at storage technologies and solutions available in the market for addressing the AI storage challenge.