Real-time and AI-based applications are where business is moving—rapidly. In fact, within the next few years, industry analysts predict that half of all enterprise IT infrastructure will employ some form of machine learning or AI capabilities to improve enterprise productivity, manage business risks and drive cost reductions. Also, the majority of Fortune 2000 companies will have at least one mission-critical workload that leverages real-time big data analytics. For both AI and real-time applications, the amount of data that must be rapidly captured and processed will drive the need for the performance of both flash-based storage and solutions leveraging NVMe technologies.