Nearly three-quarters (72%) of global IT leaders say a lack of real-time data infrastructure is stalling their efforts to scale artificial intelligence, according to the 2026 Data Streaming Report from Confluent, an IBM affiliate.
The report, which surveyed 4,625 IT leaders worldwide, examines the challenges that enterprises are facing when scaling AI, and why they may need to focus more on fixing the infrastructure their AI initiatives rely on rather than simply increasing investment in AI itself.
