Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to products and services that enable machines to perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence—such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language understanding. This category includes markets that focus on helping organizations build, deploy, and scale intelligent systems, utilizing AI across multiple industries through technologies like machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and generative AI.
Gartner defines file and object storage platforms as software and/or hardware platforms that offer object and distributed file system technologies for storing and managing unstructured data over NFS, SMB and Amazon S3 access protocols. File and object storage platforms store, secure, protect and scale an organization’s unstructured data with access over the network using protocols such as NFS, SMB and Amazon S3. Use cases include analytics, workload consolidation, backup and archiving, hybrid cloud, object-native applications, cloud IT operations, and high-performance files.