Over the past year, AI has quickly moved from emerging priority to operating reality. It is no longer confined to experimentation or isolateduse cases. It is being embedded within applications, workflows, and infrastructure at a pace that is reshaping how organizations operate and how data moves across hybrid cloud environments.
Global investment in AI has risen sharply in recent years, with worldwide AI spending reaching a staggering1 $1.5 trillion in 2025, and organizations are racing to operationalize and quantify its value across every business function. As AI adoption expands, so does the volume, velocity, and complexity of data in motion. Applications are more distributed, interactions are more dynamic, and dependencies are harder to trace. The modern enterprise is becoming more intelligent, but concerningly more opaque.
