2026: The enterprise reset — From public AI to private data, open infrastructure, and assured resilience

By Sudharsan Aravamuthan, Head, Systems Engineering – India, Pure Storage

As enterprises enter 2026, technology leadership is confronting a decisive reset. The last few years were defined by rapid experimentation—testing generative AI on public data, scaling virtualised environments built on proprietary stacks, and relying on traditional backup models for resilience. That phase is ending. What lies ahead is not incremental change, but a fundamental re-architecture of how organisations extract value from data, run infrastructure, and defend their digital core

AI models: 2026 marks the shift from mining the open internet to unlocking untapped internal data.

By 2026, we’ll reach peak value from publicly available data, as AI models extract the last drops of signal from the open internet. The next wave of AI progress will depend as much on discovering untapped data as on refining algorithms. Organisations will turn inward, racing to unlock data long trapped ...