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Accelerating GenAI Workflows with IaaS Network Services

Publisher IDC
Published Mar 28, 2025
Length 13 Pages
SKU # IDC19884629

Description

This IDC Perspective highlights how infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) network services offered by cloud service providers can help accelerate deployment of enterprise generative AI (GenAI) workflows. IaaS network services ensure on-demand connectivity, optimized performance, and robust security, enabling seamless data movement across distributed GenAI workload environments. “GenAI workloads associated with next-generation business-critical applications operate across public cloud and private on-premises environments, continuously requiring complex exchanges. This makes high-performance, global-scale, and secure networking a ‘need’ rather than ‘convenience,’“ said Taranvir Singh, research manager, Cloud Networking Services at IDC. “Traditional static and siloed networking approaches struggle to solve the needs and challenges that distributed modern GenAI workflows present. As GenAI adoption accelerates, organizations are increasingly relying on IaaS network services — such as cloud VPN, cloud interconnect, cloud WAN, load balancing, private service connects, cloud DNS, and service mesh — for simple, scalable, and efficient networks, powering AI and powered by AI.”

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13 Pages

Executive Snapshot

Situation Overview

Applications Are Moving to Cloud as Cloud Is Driving GenAI Adoption

Enterprises Prefer Platform Approach for GenAI Infrastructure

IaaS Network Services Enable GenAI Workflows

On-Demand Connectivity

Application Assurance

Cybersecurity

Advice for the Technology Buyers

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