It has been obvious for some time that the advent of generative AI and enterprise AI tools would force organizations to work differently with their data. Now, the International Data Corporation’s newest surveys underpin that assumption with hard numbers. It’s now clear that the next step will have to be to ensure accessible archives in the AI age.
The IDC White Paper entitled ‘Built for Scale: The Enduring Role of HDDs in the AI Era ’ found that 61 per cent of organisations experienced data growth of at least 25 per cent over the past year due to AI, while 74 per cent expected their data volumes to grow by 25 per cent or more over the next three years. The paper was based on a quantitative survey of 763 IT and business decision-makers at manager level, giving a representative overview of the field.
5.9 per cent reported bringing increasing volumes of archived cold-tier data back online to support AI workloads; this means that archives are suddenly being graded on a metric that had previously not been a high priority – their ability to quickly and efficiently retrieve data for processing and generation.
98.2 per cent of respondents saying total cost of ownership per terabyte was important or very important when making storage decisions – meaning that the upcoming balancing act is likely to be a tension between high-performance archives capable of enabling immediate work with cold data and the desire to maintain lower costs and thus lower data volumes.
TECH-ARROW is on the ground floor
One of the major selling point for TECH-ARROW’s contentACCESS archive has long been our ability to facilitate end-user access to archived files, helping eliminate bottlenecks in access and ensure accessibility to offloaded information.
This existing focus means we’re well positioned to help organizations navigate the upcoming transformation. If AI continues to see adoption and use, this ability to allow easy access to stored information may prove a benefit for all involved.
Interested in seeing how this capability can work for you? Contact us and schedule a free consultation with our team today!
Your Data in Your hands – With TECH-ARROW
by Matúš Koronthály
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