target audience: TECH SUPPLIER Publication date: Aug 2024 - Document type: IDC Survey Spotlight - Doc Document number: # US52543824
Evaluating IaaS Networking When Supporting GenAI Workloads
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This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into ranked attributes used to assess and select IaaS network services and cloud service providers that serve in support of AI/GenAI workloads. 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/GenAI workloads across the network and using AI-powered private and public networking solutions within the network. The focus of this research is comprehensive, covering datacenters, cloud services, multicloud environments, 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 title and technology role (e.g., datacenter and cloud network engineering and operations), and AI maturity level.
"IDC research indicates that operational efficiency, worker productivity, customer experience, and digital innovation are consistently top-ranked strategic business priorities. Certainly, AI advancements and GenAI deployments take direct aim at each of these … and more. So why does IDC research also indicate that enterprise organizations are hesitant to convert their AI/GenAI efforts from pilot to production? Confidence in infrastructure, concerns for security, constraints in talent … all and more are causing organizations pause. Increasingly, these enterprises are looking to take their cloud computing success and reliance on cloud-based GenAI platforms and apply it to networking. This puts IaaS network services and cloud service providers in the crosshairs as enterprises heighten their evaluation and use of public services within their network infrastructures. Given the potential rewards and risks associated with GenAI rollouts, aligning network priorities and plans with cloud service providers — especially, the hyperscalers — is a critical success factor with GenAI." — Mark Leary, research director, Network Observability and Automation, IDC