Infrastructure News Roundup: January 2025

Datacenter

January isn’t usually a big month for announcements related to enterprise infrastructure, but then this isn’t a normal January. Let’s look at what happened.

Are IT Organizations Ready for the GenAI Revolution? Let’s Ask.

Survey Says

Over the past few months, we’ve seen surveys published by tech companies across the spectrum that show us how gen AI is forcing IT organizations to assess their readiness for its adoption and deployment. The surveys offer a comprehensive view of the industry’s current stance, showing enthusiasm balanced by caution around organizational and infrastructure challenges.

Let’s examine recent surveys from the tech industry itself to see what they say about IT’s readiness to tackle the challenges of generative AI.

The Komprise 2022 State of Unstructured Data Management Report

Komprise Analysis can look at all an enterprise’s file and object storage, independent of the underlying storage technology, to quickly generate a unified view of how that data is being used, how fast it’s growing, access patterns, and even who is using that data.

The 2023 Enterprise Storage Agenda

2023 is going to be an exciting year in enterprise storage. Principal Analyst Steve McDowell walks us through his predictions for the storage industry over the coming calendar year.