India, April 30 -- For years, storage sat quietly in the background of enterprise IT. Important, but rarely strategic. That equation is now broken.

In a recent interaction, Owais Mohammed, Director of Sales for MEA and India at Western Digital, laid out a sharp reality. AI is not just changing workloads. It is forcing a complete rethink of how data centres are built, scaled, and sustained.

Traditional enterprise infrastructure was never designed for AI. AI workloads are continuous. They are data-heavy. And they demand both speed and scale at the same time.

"AI infrastructure is not a single tier anymore. It is a data system," Mohammed explained.

That shift is fundamental. Storage is no longer a backend component. It is now central to ...