In a recent study, EMEA IT leaders were the most unsure about their infrastructure’s capacity to meet AI needs.
A startling 77 percent of IT leaders in the UAE feel their current IT infrastructure is capable of meeting the demands of the most modern technologies, according to a new Equinix survey.
In terms of adoption of AI across many industries, the UAE is emerging as a leader, outpacing other nations in terms of readiness.
The study, which examined the viewpoints of IT professionals on AI developments within their organizations, comes on the heels of a year that saw tremendous improvements in AI implementation in both the business-to-business and business-to-consumer sectors.
In order to power modern enterprises with intelligent and autonomous technologies, Kaladhar Voruganti, Senior Technologist at Equinix, emphasizes the need of incorporating AI into organizations worldwide. Voruganti cautions that people who miss the opportunity to benefit from AI run the risk of falling behind.
According to Equinix’s global survey of 2,900 IT decision-makers, adoption of AI is on the rise in all business sectors. A startling 85% of respondents worldwide said they intended to take advantage of AI’s benefits, with many having already used it or preparing to do so for a number of crucial tasks.
For the effective creation of precise AI models, Voruganti emphasizes the significance of secure and quick access to both internal and external data sources dispersed over numerous clouds and data brokers. In order to increase speed, privacy, and cost-efficiency, he emphasizes that AI processing must move to the edge as more data is generated there.
Tech executives can think about hybrid solutions that let AI model learning and inference take place in diverse places in order to satisfy these objectives. Scalable AI solutions also call for careful IT framework planning to support the ingest, sharing, storage, and processing of enormous and varied information while putting sustainability first.
In comparison to the global average, Kamel Al-Tawil, Managing Director at Equinix MENA, notes that UAE firms exhibit a higher level of comfort in adjusting to the expanding use of AI. Al-Tawil credits the visionary leadership in the nation, which announced its Intelligent Systems Strategy in 2017 with the objective of being the global leader in AI by 2031, with this accomplishment.
With 49 percent of them voicing concerns, IT leaders in the EMEA region are the most unsure about their infrastructure’s capacity to meet AI’s requirements. Leaders in the Americas indicate the lowest amount of uncertainty, at 32%, while those in the Asia-Pacific area exhibit the highest level, at 44%.
The poll emphasizes the requirement for education and collaboration to enable IT teams in optimizing the deployment of such infrastructure in addition to the necessity to update digital infrastructure. 52 percent of companies who are growing their IT teams are actively looking for AI and machine learning specialists.
Overall, the study highlights how crucial it is for IT leaders in the UAE and elsewhere to embrace AI and make sure their infrastructure is AI-ready because failing to do so could cause them to fall behind rivals in this quickly changing technological world.