Storage And Data Teams Need To Talk
Blocks & Files, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
Interview. Blocks and Files is a storage-focussed outlet that has progressed, with the industry, into data access, management and AI pipeline feeding.
We know, as does everyone else, that organizations need a storage team as soon as the storage infrastructure grows beyond a certain point. The storage team provides stored data access and protection to applications that need it.
Analytics and AI is making data access far, far more complex. An analytics function needs its data located, filtered and selected, extracted, transformed, loaded and then processed with appropriately coded functions, SQL jobs for example. AI has only made this even more complicated with its initial reliance on files for training evolving to object data and retrieval-augmented generation for AI inferencing, vector databases and semantic search.