What Is the Scale of GenAI Application Rollouts, and Where Will They Be Located?

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This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results of a survey question concentrating on what the scale of GenAI application rollouts is and where they will be located.

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. The report 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 the document offers only a view into total responses, results are available by geographic region, select country, company size, major vertical industries, respondents' title and technology role, and AI maturity level.

"GenAI applications are being deployed to support and advance digital transformation initiatives; these applications will come with both familiar and new networking challenges; and understanding the scale and timing is important to minimize deployment delays. This survey question reveals the amount of GenAI applications enterprises plan to deploy and the split of cloud provider versus on-premises deployments. The pipeline of GenAI applications planned is robust, with the clear majority citing 10+ applications and a preference for cloud providers. This will bring many new GenAI applications to enterprise clouds, even with delays. It is important to note the choice for deploying private on-premises systems is still substantial, pointing to the need for multicloud and hybrid networking." — Paul Nicholson, research vice president, Cloud and Datacenter Networks at IDC

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