Infrastructure Complexity Emerges As Primary Barrier To Enterprise AI Adoption: Survey
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
A new survey has found that infrastructure complexity, rather than technological capability, has become the primary obstacle preventing enterprises from successfully scaling artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives.
DDN's State of AI Infrastructure Report, conducted by Vanson Bourne in collaboration with Cognizant and Google Cloud, surveyed 600 U.S. IT and business leaders. The findings paint a picture of organizations eager to deploy AI but struggling with the foundational systems required to support it.
According to the report, 65% of organizations describe their AI environments as too complex to manage effectively, and more than half of the respondents (54%) have delayed or canceled AI initiatives within the past two years.