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News articleYahoo Finance· January 13, 2026

New DDN Report Reveals 65% of Organizations Are Struggling to Achieve AI Success

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New DDN Report Reveals 65% of Organizations Are Struggling to Achieve AI Success 600 business and IT decision-makers reveal in "The 2026 AI Infrastructure Report" that unified platforms, cloud strategies, energy expertise, and partnerships are the key to unlocking real AI success CHATSWORTH, Calif., January 13, 2026--(…
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  • 76% of leaders face fundamental data challenges, from legacy infrastructure and siloed datasets

    80% confidence

  • 97% of organizations overwhelmingly agree that cloud infrastructure is essential to scaling AI

    80% confidence

  • DDN enables up to 70% reduction in power and cooling costs by keeping GPUs fully saturated and moving data in parallel

    80% confidence

  • 98% of organizations cite a skills shortage in both IT and data science roles as a major barrier to scaling AI

    80% confidence

  • AI workloads are projected to grow 110% in the next year

    80% confidence

  • More than half of respondents cite cloud as their fastest path to production

    80% confidence

  • Scaling AI is an integration problem, not a compute problem

    80% confidence

  • 83% of organizations say their internal teams are struggling with AI workloads today

    80% confidence

  • The real bottleneck in AI is the data layer underneath, not models and GPUs

    80% confidence

  • 93% of organizations are actively seeking to reduce AI's energy impact

    80% confidence

  • 54% of organizations have delayed or canceled AI initiatives in the past two years

    80% confidence

  • 47% of organizations cite power and cooling costs as their top infrastructure constraint

    80% confidence

  • 65% of organizations say their AI environments are too complex to manage

    80% confidence

  • 72% of organizations rely on third-party expertise to build and manage their AI infrastructure, while just 12% depend solely on in-house talent

    80% confidence

  • Google Cloud Managed Lustre empowers organizations to easily scale AI workloads with latest GPUs and TPUs while reducing complexity

    80% confidence

  • 65% of organizations have abandoned AI projects due to a lack of skills

    80% confidence

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