AI has rapidly become a business imperative for profitability and competitive survival. Organizations large and small find themselves in a position where they must embrace and leverage AI just to keep pace. But deploying AI is not just about reaching an internet-based chat bot. It involves data movement, model tuning, and increasingly, agents that can orchestrate and execute semi- or fully autonomously.
Successfully embracing AI to transform business processes and workflows in production, at scale, requires a complete reassessment of IT infrastructure. Omdia research has found that 80% of organizations are making or planning significant infrastructure investments to support new AI initiatives, encompassing all technology domains and, typically, leveraging a hybrid cloud architecture. This includes networking within the data center, within the cloud, across the WAN, and at remote campus and branch sites.
