Cisco: Pressure to deploy AI is up, but only 13% feel ready [Video]

Cisco’s AI Readiness Index shows networks aren’t equipped to meet AI workloads, and most enterprises don’t have the GPUs to meet AI demands.

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Pressure to implement AI plans is on the rise, but the readiness of enterprise networks to handle AI workloads has actually declined over the past year, according to new research from Cisco.

Cisco’s second annual AI Readiness Index notes a “huge chasm” between the urgency companies feel to deploy AI and their ability to actually do it. Some 8,000 global companies were surveyed for the AI Readiness Index, which aims to measure how prepared organizations are to invest in, deploy and use AI.

“Nearly all companies (98%) report the urgency to deploy AI has increased in the last year,” Cisco wrote. However, between 2023 and 2024, global AI readiness in the enterprise has declined. Today, only 13% of companies are fully ready to capture AI’s potential – down from 14% a year ago, Cisco stated.

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