Whenever you visit our websites, information may be collected using cookies and similar tools to improve your user experience and to enhance the performance of the website.
Closing this message means you accept the use of cookies.
Research Brief: AI Initiatives Are Driving Higher Storage Costs and Forcing Strategic Shifts
Research Brief
Oct 21, 2025
by
Simon Robinson, Emily Marsh, Christian Perry
IT organizations are scrambling to establish and support not only burgeoning AI initiatives, but also the infrastructure that supports their immense scale and requisite processing speeds. Storage teams in particular are feeling the pressure when it comes to managing the large data sets that feed large language models and enable AI insights. Enterprise Strategy Group research recently investigated how these organizations are handling soaring storage demands and changing storage cost profiles in the AI era.