According to research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, 78% of organizations planned to make a significant investment in a data science and AI technologies in 2024, 1 and 54% expected to have generative AI in production this year.

2 Public cloud continues to dominate as a deployment destination for the data supporting these initiatives.3 However, such initiatives depend on the capabilities of the entire cloud infrastructure environment: the servers, the network, and, most importantly, the storage—as it is the storage layer that holds the models. Data is a key determinant in the success of AI projects, and the data storage layer plays a mandatory role in determining the ROI of such initiatives.