IBM Thinks Your Data Is Too Stubborn to Move (and AI Agrees)
Written by Anders Bylund for The Motley Fool -> IBM argues that "data gravity" is pulling AI workloads back to on-premises infrastructure, challenging the cloud-first default. Big Blue's Power servers and Z mainframes target enterprises that need AI capabilities without moving
IBM argues that "data gravity" is pulling AI workloads back to on-premises infrastructure, challenging the cloud-first default.
Big Blue's Power servers and Z mainframes target enterprises that need AI capabilities without moving mission-critical data to another company's cloud platform.
Oracle, CrowdStrike, and Seagate are also leveraging data gravity concepts, suggesting broad industry recognition of the trend.
For years, enterprise IT strategy followed a simple script: Move workloads to the public cloud. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Web Services, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Azure, and Alphabet 's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google Cloud built massive businesses on that assumption.
But the AI era is throwing a spanner in the cloud computing works.
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"Hybrid cloud and AI are two sides of the same coin," said Dr. Hillery Hunter, CTO and general manager of innovation for IBM (NYSE: IBM) Infrastructure. "Where your data is, is becoming very much a grounding factor, because where your data is, is then where you naturally want to build out your AI."
That makes sense, right? It's the concept of data gravity in action.
