2024 Cloud Complexity Report
: The AI Divide
The second annual NetApp Cloud Complexity Report explores how technology decision makers around the globe are navigating and deploying AI at scale. This new chapter provides insights into progress, readiness, challenges, momentum, and the crucial role of data management for AI success.
Complexity at a tipping point
The World is Dividing into AI Leaders and AI Laggards
The rise of AI is creating a new disrupt or die era and the world is starting to divide into AI leaders and AI laggards.
There is already a clear divide between AI-leading countries and AI-lagging countries. IT costs and security are the two biggest challenges in the AI era, but they will not impede AI progress. Instead, AI leaders will scale back, cut other IT operations or reallocate costs from other parts of the business to fund AI. AI leaders will also increase their cloud operations (CloudOps) investments and increase their data security investments throughout 2024.
The New Disrupt or Die Era
It’s no surprise that the Technology sector is leading in innovation and AI – with the most AI projects either in pilot or up and running (70%), but Banking & Financial Services and Manufacturing are also AI leaders with 55% and 50% of AI projects either in pilot or up and running, respectively.
Kick Complexity to the Curb
Technical barriers
Tech executives report technical challenges optimizing cloud.
Tensions around ROI
Significant pressure to show short-term progress and fast ROI cited.
Cloud strategy key drivers
Multicloud strategy is driven by data sovereignty and ESG.
Looking to AI
AI support for cloud deployments will increase.
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