India, May 12 -- The Everpure 1touch acquisition reveals something important about where enterprise technology is heading. Storage companies are no longer focusing only on capacity and performance. The real challenge now is making enterprise data usable for AI before organisations even begin building AI models.

By acquiring 1touch, Everpure is adding data discovery, classification and orchestration directly into its storage platform. The company says this will allow enterprise data to become inherently AI-ready at the source. That sounds technical on the surface, but the larger message is simple - businesses are struggling with scattered and unstructured data across cloud platforms, SaaS applications and edge environments.

The move also...