Security most important component of AI infrastructure – report

Seagate report finds demand for storage outweighing that for compute power

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BS Teh, Seagate

An international report has found that security is is the top concern of business leaders when it comes to adopting artificial intelligence, according to a report by Recon Analytics commissioned by Seagate Technology.

The November 2024 survey sampled more than 1,000 business decision-makers who actively work in a storage infrastructure role with companies reporting more than $10 million in annual revenue and that have already adopted AI or plan to adopt AI within the next three years.

After security, storage was listed in second place followed by data management, network capacity, compute, regulations, LLM Viability, and energy.

The survey found that respondents who predominately use cloud storage say their cloud-based storage would more than double over the next three years.

The survey also showed a trend toward organisations retaining data for longer periods of time to ensure data integrity needed to train AI models.

Almost three quarters (73%) of respondents said AI training was driving increased data storage as they were backing up their previously saved checkpointing data on a daily to weekly basis.

Of those respondents saving checkpoints daily (28% of respondents), 32% were retaining data for more than 12 months while 29% were retaining for six to 12 months. Companies already using more than 100PB of storage were saving and backing up checkpoints on a daily to weekly basis with 87% of them storing these checkpoints in the cloud or in a mix of hard disk and solid state drives.

“Trustworthy AI is really the key to enabling mainstream adoption of AI,” said BS Teh, chief commercial officer of Seagate (pictured). “With the vast majority of survey respondents saying they need to store data for longer periods of time to improve quality outcomes of AI, we’re focused on areal density innovation needed to increase storage capacity for each platter in our HAMR-based hard drives. We have a clear pathway to more than double per-platter storage capacity over the next few years.”

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