The promise of emerging technologies such as generative AI is vast, but the barriers to a successful implementation for the average enterprise can often appear daunting. Moreover, organizational appetite for longer-term investments in AI capabilities might diminish if initial returns around inferencing are underwhelming, or even plain wrong.

Hence, pending innovations such as IBM’s content aware storage provide organizations with a pathway to inferencing that both increases the likelihood of driving strong, positive outcomes, while potentially significantly reducing infrastructure resource consumption at the compute/GPU, network, and storage layer. IBM already has a strong pedigree in HPC- and at-scale performance storage with Storage Scale/GPFS. For organizations looking to get the most out of their initial AI inferencing investments, IBM’s evolving capabilities in this sphere are well worth a look.