How AI is evolving Enterprise Infrastructure

Dan McConnell (Senior VP Product Management at @HitachiVantara) talks about how Enterprise infrastructure is having to evolve to keep up with the data challenges of AI.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.
Topic 2 - How is AI changing the way enterprises need to think about infrastructure?
Topic 3 - What makes AI workloads so different from traditional workloads? How is AI exposing the limitations of broken cloud environments?
Topic 4 - Where are organizations feeling the most pressure? What are the biggest misconceptions enterprises have about preparing for AI?
Topic 5 - What problems come from managing separate systems? What is the biggest driving factor toward unified data platforms?
Topic 6 - How is Hitachi Vantara helping customers handle the growing infrastructure demands created by AI?

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