IBM Thinks Your Data Is Too Stubborn to Move (and AI Agrees)

For years, enterprise IT strategy followed a simple script: Move workloads to the public cloud. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Web Services, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Azure, and Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google Cloud built massive businesses on that assumption.

But the AI era is throwing a spanner in the cloud computing works.

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The gravitational pull of stubborn data

“Hybrid cloud and AI are two sides of the same coin,” said Dr. Hillery Hunter, CTO and general manager of innovation for IBM (NYSE: IBM) Infrastructure. “Where your data is, is becoming very much a grounding factor, because where your data is, is then where you naturally want to build out…