Most AI strategies will collapse without infrastructure discipline: Sesh Tirumala, CIO, Western Digital

At a time when enterprises are rushing to scale AI, the real bottleneck is not compute—it is the foundation beneath it. Storage, data integrity, and infrastructure discipline remain the most overlooked yet decisive factors in determining whether AI delivers value or collapses under its own ambition.

In this interaction, Sesh Tirumala, Chief Information Officer at Western Digital, brings a practitioner’s lens to the conversation. With over three decades of experience and a track record of executing large-scale, zero-downtime transformations across global operations, he cuts through the hype to focus on what actually enables AI at scale.

His perspective is clear: without a strategically designed, resilient, and scalable storage architecture, AI initiatives will remain stuck in pilots. For India’s fast-moving enterprises, the risk is not lack of investment—but investing on a weak foundation.

In this interaction with Express Computer, Tirumala outlines where AI strategies ...