target audience: TECH SUPPLIER Publication date: Aug 2024 - Document type: IDC Survey Spotlight - Doc Document number: # US52543724
Critical Datacenter Networking Solution and Supplier Attributes for GenAI Deployments
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This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the ranked attributes of datacenter networking solutions and suppliers for those organizations choosing to deploy GenAI infrastructure and workloads within their private datacenters. These survey results are drawn from IDC's AI in Networking Special Report, driven by an extensive worldwide survey of 1,200 enterprise network executives and experts. This presentation covers requirements, impact, and plans for supporting AI workloads across the network and using AI-powered networking solutions within the network. The focus of this research is comprehensive, covering datacenters, cloud services, network core and edge, and network management. While this IDC Survey Spotlight offers only a view into total responses, results are available by geographic region, select country, company size, major vertical industries, respondent's role (e.g., datacenter and cloud network engineering and operations), and AI maturity level.
"Enterprises have reached a critical juncture in their GenAI journey. After 12–18 months of training models and testing applications, many have reached the point when it is time to move from pilot to production. And yet IDC research indicates that there is hesitation in rolling out GenAI beyond contained trials. These AI in networking survey results indicate that the network is contributing to delays in GenAI rollouts. GenAI is a brave new world in datacenter networking. And enterprises have real concerns with potentially needed capabilities and possibly necessary costs. Never have I seen concerns over future road maps and solution pricing outrank performance and support as critical judgment criteria. Obviously, enterprises are looking for their datacenter networking suppliers to lead them down the right path in support of GenAI workloads. And this path covers both future capabilities and costs. Enterprises are looking to learn from their suppliers' experiences and expertise and yet want to make sure they do not lock themselves into solutions that provide pricing leverage to the supplier." — Mark Leary, research director, Network Observability and Automation, IDC