New DDN Report Reveals 65% of Organizations Are Struggling to Achieve AI Success
View original at finance.yahoo.comNew DDN Report Reveals 65% of Organizations Are Struggling to Achieve AI Success 600 business and IT decision-makers reveal in "The 2026 AI Infrastructure Report" that unified platforms, cloud strategies, energy expertise, and partnerships are the key to unlocking real AI success CHATSWORTH, Calif., January 13, 2026--(…
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76% of leaders face fundamental data challenges, from legacy infrastructure and siloed datasets
80% confidence97% of organizations overwhelmingly agree that cloud infrastructure is essential to scaling AI
80% confidenceDDN enables up to 70% reduction in power and cooling costs by keeping GPUs fully saturated and moving data in parallel
80% confidence98% of organizations cite a skills shortage in both IT and data science roles as a major barrier to scaling AI
80% confidenceAI workloads are projected to grow 110% in the next year
80% confidenceMore than half of respondents cite cloud as their fastest path to production
80% confidenceScaling AI is an integration problem, not a compute problem
80% confidence83% of organizations say their internal teams are struggling with AI workloads today
80% confidenceThe real bottleneck in AI is the data layer underneath, not models and GPUs
80% confidence93% of organizations are actively seeking to reduce AI's energy impact
80% confidence54% of organizations have delayed or canceled AI initiatives in the past two years
80% confidence47% of organizations cite power and cooling costs as their top infrastructure constraint
80% confidence65% of organizations say their AI environments are too complex to manage
80% confidence72% of organizations rely on third-party expertise to build and manage their AI infrastructure, while just 12% depend solely on in-house talent
80% confidenceGoogle Cloud Managed Lustre empowers organizations to easily scale AI workloads with latest GPUs and TPUs while reducing complexity
80% confidence65% of organizations have abandoned AI projects due to a lack of skills
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