Tech Barometer · 2026-03-03 · 9 min
Artificial intelligence reshapes enterprise storage infrastructure, transforming passive data repositories into active platforms that power AI applications. Vishal Sinha explains how storage evolution, data consolidation, and security challenges define the new data-ready era. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter Get more stories by subscribing to The Forecast . Video transcript: Vishal Sinha: If you look at traditionally, applications and users were creating data which used to get stored in storage. Jason Lopez: As artificial intelligence accelerates, the infrastructure we usually think of, running in the background, is undergoing its most profound transformation yet. Vishal Sinha: Now, it’s the other way around. Now applications are using the data to build intelligence out of it and power those applications. So things have completely flipped in more recent days with storage. In the era of intersection between infrastructure and intelligence. We need infrastructure to run all the AI applications and workloads, and then you need data to power the intelligence for applications.
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