More Data Will Move on Premise in 2026, Expert Predicts
More companies will realize the benefits of keeping their data on premise, said Other World Computing CEO Larry O'Connor as part of a list of 2026 predictions Tuesday. “More teams are going to rediscover the joy of having their data and workflows close to where the work actually happens,” O’Connor said. It’s “easy to move a workflow up into the cloud, and then you wake up one day and realize you are paying for every little thing, and you are also at the mercy of a lot of services you cannot fix or influence.”
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O’Connor also predicted that AI will start playing its proper role as a “creative partner,” rather than the creator. Next year, AI will stop “trying to be the artist” and start “becoming the best assistant a cinematographer, editor, or photographer has ever had,” he said. “The true creative spark still lives with the human, not in the machine.”