NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, released the 2023 Data Complexity Report, a global report that explores companies’ growing needs for unified data storage. The report found that 98% of organisations are in the middle of their cloud journey, with three out of four reporting workloads stored on-premises, highlighting the need for a unified approach to hybrid multi-cloud architectures and continued innovation in both on-premises all-flash storage and public cloud storage to enable AI adoption at scale.
“Security threats, sustainability goals, and adoption of deep technologies like AI make IT more complex than ever. Holistic solutions that address these challenges and enable new technologies to thrive across hybrid IT environments, is the need of the hour,” Puneet Gupta, managing director,vice president, NetApp India and SAARC, explained.
According to the report, migration to the cloud hasn’t been a linear journey for many businesses. Of all tech executives with plans to migrate workloads to the cloud, three out of four still have most of their workloads stored on-premises.
However, AI adoption is the biggest driver for cloud migration, and the cloud is a major enabler for AI adoption. Seventy-four percent of respondents said they’re using public cloud services for AI and analytics. Tech executives globally (39%) say their top need for Flash innovation is to optimise AI performance, cost and efficiency, as per insights from the report.
