Preparing enterprises for the future of AI

AMD is helping businesses modernize their IT infrastructures to get the most out of this new technology.

AI is expected to contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, making it the most rapidly adopted technology in history. And there’s good reason for the rush. AI has the power to transform operations, drive innovation, and provide a competitive advantage. But for organizations to benefit from this technology, they will need to ensure their business is ready. Fewer than 30% of business leaders believe their IT infrastructures are conducive to the acquisition of generative AI.

“The skyrocketing growth of AI technology presents a huge opportunity for business leaders,” says Archana Vemulapalli, corporate vice president of global commercial sales for high performance and adaptive computing leader AMD. “Embracing AI, especially at this early stage, will allow them to learn fast, move further, and establish differentiated gains very quickly.”

Yet, being an early adopter doesn’t just mean rolling out solutions quickly. AI requires a strategic approach. Business leaders must identify their operational challenges to determine how AI can be applied to solve them, as well as establish the right infrastructure to support the evolving technology. 

“Making strategic investments in applications and data centers now is critical,” says Vemulapalli. “It will allow enterprises to align and augment their technology and growth strategies and lay the groundwork for future innovations.”

A growing need for modernization

Business leaders today are determining how using AI can not only drive revenue, market share, and profitable growth with customer base—but also increase efficiency. This is forcing companies to consider if they have enough compute power.

As AI-powered services and devices become more entrenched in enterprises, servers, storage capacity, memory, and bandwidth must be at peak performance. But traditional data center technology is struggling to keep pace with changing and intensifying business demands, and AI requires so much computing power that merely adding a couple of additional servers won’t be enough. 

While the data center challenge is clear, the majority of business leaders believe IT investment budgets are a leading barrier to AI adoption. This means IT leaders need to address the growing needs for their businesses while maintaining costs and data center footprints. 

To better understand how to leverage and deploy technology assets, IT leaders and departments can seek help and advice from technology partners. 

“AI is broad, diverse, and fast-changing,” says Vemulapalli. “To grow business, IT leaders need strong engagements with strategic IT partners that understand AI and can help them better address their unique business problems and maximize opportunities to get ahead of the competition.”

Succeeding with AI

By 2026, more than 80% of enterprises are expected to have leveraged gen AI technology. To support this growth, AMD is working to address the needs of enterprises with range of data center solutions.

“Enterprise AI will not be one-size-fits-all proposition. We can help IT leaders better understand how to take core IT assets and run them in meaningful ways to adopt an AI-first posture,” says Vemulapalli.

Enterprises can strengthen their technology infrastructures with products such as AMD’s EPYC™ processors, which can increase computing performance and energy efficiency to serve as a basis for AI projects.

These data centers powered by AMD solutions allow businesses to tackle workloads with fewer servers and lower operating costs and free up space and power for alternate computing tasks and applications. This helps companies achieve faster time to critical business insights that drive growth and results.  

“At AMD, we’re well-poised to truly partner with customers because our product portfolio is designed to promote performance, lower the total cost of ownership, and empower customers to be successful at achieving their goals,” says Vemulapalli.

To further enable companies to achieve their business goals, AMD offers additional support. These services include close engagement with customers to develop real-world solutions, a vibrant partner ecosystem offering a well-defined roadmap, and stability and consistent growth to power advanced research and development.

“It’s clear that AI technology presents so much potential. There’s a massive upside to making the leap forward in modernizing enterprise infrastructures and driving AI success,” says Vemulapalli. “We have to invest today for the opportunity that’s coming tomorrow.”