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Accelerate AI and automation with all-flash object storage
Spending for AI and automation is on the rise , and 77 % of businesses report on-premises all-flash object storage is essential for successful Digital Transformation .
Digital business initiatives like automation and Artificial Intelligence demand highperformance and massive capacity storage . In turn , this is driving adoption of on-premises allflash object storage to provide customers ’ top need – comprehensive data protection at scale . That ’ s according to a new research paper from Enterprise Strategy Group and Scality , the object storage pioneer .
ESG ’ s prior research found that AI / ML and analytics are the business differentiators IT needs . Accordingly , 64 % of IT decision-makers using AI / ML expect to increase spending in 2021 .
To meet the AI challenge , the report finds that IT leaders are transitioning their data storage ecosystems to run on all-flash object storage , encroaching on the territory of traditional primary storage solutions .
All-flash object storage powers the heavy workloads necessitated by these initiatives by quickly giving access to large volumes of unstructured data .
The most significant all-flash object storage benefits include accelerating AI / ML environments , empowering business intelligence / analytics , increasing
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