target audience: TECH SUPPLIER Publication date: Aug 2024 - Document type: IDC Survey Spotlight - Doc Document number: # US52545624
The AI Reformation in Network Engineering and Operations
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This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the expected impact of AI-powered network management capabilities on the future network service integrity and networking staff productivity and value. These survey results are drawn from IDC's AI in Networking Special Report, driven by an extensive worldwide survey of 1,200 enterprise network executives and experts. This presentation covers requirements, impact, and plans for supporting AI/GenAI workloads across the network and using AI-powered private and public networking solutions within the network. The focus of this research is comprehensive, covering datacenters, cloud services, multicloud environments, network core and edge, and network management. While this presentation offers only a view into total responses, results are available by geographic region, select country, company size, major vertical industries, respondent's title and technology role, and AI maturity level.
"Enterprise networks are growing more complex and critical in this hyper-connected digital business environment. This heightens the pressure on the network and networking staff to know more, do more, and deliver more in the face of talent shortages, budget shortfalls, accelerating threats, technology barriers, and tightening deadlines. More intelligent AI-powered network systems and services offer great hope for enterprises wanting more from their network at a time when networking resources are already overloaded. Smarter systems and services provide the data, analysis, and automation that heightens network resiliency, boosts operational efficiency, and provides more rapid and reliant innovation — inside the network and on top of the network. The question is not how AI can help power networks. The question is: How fast?" — Mark Leary, research director, Network Observability and Automation, IDC