Western Digital survey highlights demand for scalable AI storage
A new global survey by Western Digital highlights a major shift in enterprise AI infrastructure planning, with organisations increasingly focusing on long-term data scalability, operational economics, and infrastructure reliability as AI deployments move from experimentation to production scale.
The findings suggest that AI infrastructure is evolving beyond a pure compute challenge into a continuous data systems challenge, where the persistent growth of datasets, inference logs, embeddings, and AI-generated outputs is driving demand for scalable storage architectures.
According to the survey, enterprises are increasingly favouring proven, operationally stable infrastructure over emerging but untested technologies. Around 66% of respondents indicated they are deprioritising newer infrastructure technologies in favour of systems that deliver predictable performance and reliability at scale.
The study also revealed that reliability and support for AI workloads are now equally critical priorities, with 69% of respondents emphasising both AI training/inference support and infrastructure availability. Notably, latency optimisation ranked significantly lower...
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