India, March 30 -- Enterprise infrastructure is undergoing a significant shift in 2026, moving away from traditional price-driven procurement models. For years, organisations relied on predictable supply and competitive pricing to plan their technology investments. However, the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-intensive workloads has disrupted this balance, creating unprecedented demand for high-performance storage, particularly NAND flash.

This has resulted in an allocation-driven environment, where the availability of critical components now determines project timelines more than budget considerations. Storage, once treated as a standard component, has become a key constraint across data centres and digital transfo...