India, Feb. 14 -- As artificial intelligence (AI)-driven workloads increase operational complexity and push up cloud expenditure, enterprises are reassessing whether their existing infrastructure can sustain competitiveness in a hybrid, data-intensive environment.

That reassessment is no longer theoretical. Across industries, IT leaders are drawing up plans to re-architect virtualised estates that were designed for a different era, one that is defined by predictable workloads, stable licensing models and slower growth in data volumes.

More than two thirds of global enterprises intend to make material changes to their virtualisation strategy within the next two years, yet only 5% consider themselves fully prepared for the transition, acc...