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From Vision to Execution: How MinIO Customers Are Winning the AI Infrastructure Race

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Who This is For:

Enterprise technology leaders, AI infrastructure architects, and data platform teams benchmarking their AI strategy against real-world deployment patterns across industries and geographies.

Key Takeaways
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70% of MinIO customers are already running AI or ML projects in production — the share moving from planning to production has doubled in the past year, making infrastructure readiness an urgent competitive priority.

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On-premises infrastructure remains the backbone of enterprise AI, with 59% running workloads on-prem due to latency, bandwidth, and sovereignty requirements — cloud is used primarily for burst capacity.

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Cost, security, and performance are weighted nearly equally as top AI infrastructure constraints, requiring architectures that treat all three as first-order design principles rather than tradeoffs.

This independently verified report from UserEvidence captures how MinIO customers across 25 countries and 9 industries are scaling AI from experimentation into production. The data is drawn from actual deployed environments, giving the findings operational credibility. Key findings include the distribution of workload types, generative AI, NLP, anomaly detection, and classical ML, and the infrastructure strategies enterprises favor: on-premises deployment dominates, driven by latency, bandwidth, and architectural control requirements, with cloud used primarily for burst capacity. The report also profiles open-source framework adoption and the near-equal weighting of cost efficiency, security, and performance as top infrastructure constraints. Its primary value is as a benchmarking instrument: technology and data platform leaders can compare their current AI deployment posture against what organizations at similar scale are actually doing, across tooling preference, deployment environment, workload mix, and infrastructure architecture.

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