The Infrastructure Renaissance: The Real Enabler of AI

By Sanjay Agrawal, CTO and Head of Presales, India and SAARC, Hitachi Vantara

As 2025 draws to a close, the global technology narrative has been dominated by the rapid adoption of AI. Organisations across sectors such as financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, and others, have accelerated investments significantly in generative AI, automation, and advanced analytics to drive breakthrough innovations and advance business transformation. Yet amid this momentum, a crucial truth often gets overshadowed, AI’s true power extends far beyond its algorithms. Its transformative potential can be unlocked only when anchored in a modern, scalable, future-ready infrastructure specially underlying data infrastructure.

Over the past year, it has become evident that legacy environments engineered for traditional workloads fall short of meeting the speed, performance and data requirements of contemporary AI. Additionally, AI strategists have realized that huge amount of underlying data that AI works on, is requiring significant efforts ...