New Delhi, Dec. 24 -- As Indian enterprises head into 2026, the conversation around data infrastructure has shifted decisively. What was once a back-end IT concern has now moved to the boardroom, driven by the simultaneous rise of AI workloads, escalating cyber threats, sustainability mandates, and the enforcement of India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.

The convergence of these forces is exposing long-standing weaknesses in enterprise data foundations, legacy storage systems, fragmented data estates, slow pipelines, and architectures that were never designed for continuous availability or AI-scale performance. At the same time, ransomware attacks and operational outages are no longer viewed as isolated incidents but rathe...