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AI boom strains storage as firms scramble to prepare
Seagate finds 99% of businesses expect AI to explode their storage needs within three years, but only 38% say they are ready.
In brief
Seagate finds 99% of businesses expect AI to explode their storage needs within three years, but only 38% say they are ready. Seagate research shows AI is driving massive storage demand growth, yet most organizations lack the infrastructure and preparedness to handle it. Originally reported by TechRadar.
Nearly all firms expect storage to explode
Seagate surveyed more than two thousand seven hundred technology decision-makers and found ninety-nine percent expect AI workloads to increase their storage requirements in the next three years.
But most lack the infrastructure to handle it
Only thirty-eight percent of organizations describe themselves as completely prepared for future demands. Forty-three percent identify storage infrastructure as a leading obstacle to wider AI deployment.
AI investments are already paying off
Eighty-six percent of respondents reported moderate or significant returns from AI investments. Among those, thirty-three percent said their organizations were already seeing substantial measurable financial or operational benefits.
Storage growth will be substantial
Nearly seven in ten respondents expect storage requirements to increase by at least twenty-six percent. Thirty-two percent anticipate growth exceeding fifty percent over the next three years.
Data quality is another major hurdle
Ninety-eight percent regard storage as strategic infrastructure. Yet fifty-three percent cite data quality and readiness as a major deployment difficulty, ranking ahead of compute availability at twenty-seven percent.
Sustainability concerns are slowing expansion
Seventy-seven percent of respondents report delays or changes to planned growth due to sustainability concerns. Thirty-six percent experienced major changes, while forty-one percent faced smaller postponements linked to environmental considerations.
Budget determines sustainability outlook
Thirty-nine percent describe their storage operations as highly sustainable now. That rises to sixty-one percent when assessing expectations five years ahead. Seventy percent with sustainability budgets above one hundred million dollars expect highly sustainable operations within five years.
What to remember
Seagate research shows AI is driving massive storage demand growth, yet most organizations lack the infrastructure and preparedness to handle it.
