More than four in 10 IT leaders surveyed in Asia-Pacific (44%) believe their existing IT infrastructure is not fully prepared for the demands of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, despite its widespread adoption across industries, according to the Equinix 2023 Global Tech Trends Survey. The survey, which examined IT leaders’ responses to AI advances in their organizations, comes after a year of significant AI breakthroughs that saw the technology rapidly deployed in applications across both the business-to-business and business-to-consumer sectors.
Jeremy Deutsch, President, Asia-Pacific, Equinix, said: “The advancement of artificial intelligence is upon us. As AI capabilities and use cases continue to build in momentum, organizations that are not equipped to harness the power of AI will see themselves losing out on a substantial competitive advantage.”
The survey confirmed AI uptake is on the rise across all industry sectors, with 83% of the IT decision-makers polled in Asia-Pacific seeking to benefit from the advantages of AI and already using or planning to use it across multiple key functions. Organizations are most likely to be using AI, or planning to do so, in IT operations (83%), followed by cybersecurity (81%), and customer experience (78%).
“Successful development of accurate AI models depends upon secure and high-speed access to both internal and external data sources that can be spread across multiple clouds and data brokers,” added Deutsch. “For example, as enterprises embark on creating their own private generative AI solutions, they may want to process their confidential data at a private and secure location with high-speed access to external data sources and AI models. Through Equinix’s interconnected digital ecosystem and reliable digital infrastructure, we have dedicated ourselves to fast-tracking our customers’ and partners’ deployment of AI to meet their ambitions and maximize business value.”
On implementing complex AI strategies, Aengus Tran, CEO & Co-Founder at harrison.ai, noted: “Secure hosting of our compute and data storage platforms is our highest technical priority as we build AI solutions for clinicians across the world. We rely on an extremely fast and direct connection to enable hybrid cloud models as required to move remarkably large data sets on which we train and develop our AI solutions. This digital infrastructure enables us to tackle bigger healthcare problems—from medical imaging solutions, to new AI healthcare solutions requiring more data and processing—helping to improve the standard of global healthcare and achieve our vision to impact one million lives per day.”
Asia-Pacific remains a strong and dynamic region projected to contribute around 70% of global growth in 2023.1 Findings from the Equinix 2023 Global Tech Trends Survey echoes that with 80% of Asia-Pacific businesses planninng to expand geographically in the next 12 months.
A full copy of the report can be found here.
