The edge AI market will reach $66.47 billion by 2030, yet enterprise strategies remain overwhelmingly cloud-centric—a tunnel vision that overlooks use cases delivering 50% downtime reduction and critical privacy compliance. The path forward is hybrid orchestration: cloud as strategic brain, edge as tactical nervous system.
The edge AI market will reach $66.47 billion by 2030, yet enterprise strategies remain overwhelmingly cloud-centric—a tunnel vision that overlooks use cases delivering 50% downtime reduction and critical privacy compliance. The path forward is hybrid orchestration: cloud as strategic brain, edge as tactical nervous system.
As enterprises race to deploy AI agents in 2026, most will fail—not due to model limitations, but because their data infrastructure cannot keep pace. Here's the audit checklist every CTO and data leader needs.
