AI AND TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE
Can technology really keep up with organisational ambition? As organisations race to scale AI, many are discovering that the biggest obstacle is not the technology they are buying but the technology they already have, as Mike Fry, infrastructure, data & security solutions director at Logicalis UK&I, explains.
AI has captured the attention of every boardroom. Organisations are investing heavily in new platforms, exploring emerging use cases and looking for ways to improve productivity, automate processes and accelerate innovation. Yet while much of the conversation has centred on what AI can do, far less attention has been paid to whether the technology supporting it can keep pace. This is rapidly becoming one of the biggest barriers to enterprise AI and success is often seen as a question of choosing the right model or selecting the right platform. Many organisations will discover that their greatest challenge lies much deeper within their existing technology estate. Infrastructure that has reliably supported business operations for years is now being asked to cope with entirely new patterns of data movement, connectivity and automation that it was never designed to handle. As organisations move beyond AI experimentation and begin embedding it into everyday operations, the technology beneath those applications is becoming just as important as the applications themselves.
day. While demand naturally fluctuated, the behaviour of those environments was relatively well understood. AI is changing that model completely and organisations are connecting significantly more devices to their networks as they collect data from operational technology, manufacturing equipment, smart buildings and edge environments. AI depends on information, which means organisations are capturing more data from more places than ever before. That information then needs to move continuously between edge environments, cloud platforms and data centres where it can be processed before insights or actions are delivered back to the business. This creates a level of data movement that many existing environments simply were not designed to support.
Mike Fry
logicalis.com
AI is changing the way technology works
Traditional enterprise infrastructure was built around people. Employees logged into applications, completed tasks and generated predictable patterns of network traffic throughout the working
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