{"id":80558,"date":"2026-05-08T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=80558"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:37:38","slug":"cios-rethink-storage-ownership-as-ai-hardware-shortages-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2026\/05\/08\/cios-rethink-storage-ownership-as-ai-hardware-shortages-intensify\/","title":{"rendered":"CIOs rethink storage ownership as AI hardware shortages intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CIOs are increasingly being forced to rethink traditional storage ownership models as Artificial Intelligence workloads place growing pressure on global hardware supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n

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According to Hemant Harie, Group CTO, Data Management Professionals South Africa, escalating component shortages, rising storage costs and unpredictable procurement cycles are making it harder for enterprises to rely solely on owned infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harie said AI demand is consuming massive amounts of compute, memory and storage capacity, creating significant strain across the hardware market as enterprises and hyperscalers compete for the same resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn some cases, we are seeing price increases of up to 400%, primarily concentrated in specific memory segments and high-performance storage components, driven by sheer scarcity and an overheated procurement landscape,\u201d said Harie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pressure is pushing more organisations toward opex-based rental and cloud storage models to reduce exposure to hardware shortages, delayed deliveries and technology obsolescence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Harie warned that CIOs must still balance governance, compliance and performance requirements carefully, particularly for latency-sensitive or sovereignty-bound workloads that require on-premise infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that hybrid and multi-cloud architectures are becoming increasingly important for improving resilience and reducing supply-chain risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Harie, businesses that combine owned and rented infrastructure strategically will be better positioned to manage future AI-driven market volatility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CIOs are increasingly being forced to rethink traditional storage ownership models as Artificial Intelligence workloads place growing pressure on global hardware supply chains. According to Hemant Harie, Group CTO, Data Management Professionals South Africa, escalating component shortages, rising storage costs and unpredictable procurement cycles are making it harder for enterprises to rely solely on owned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":75916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16131,17681,19108,6292,13],"tags":[496,386,164,41,16881,389,16153,532,499,6559,236],"class_list":["post-80558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-ai","category-news","category-storage","category-top-stories","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cio","tag-data-centres-2","tag-data-management-professionals-south-africa","tag-digital-transformation","tag-hemant-harie","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-multi-cloud","tag-popia","tag-storage"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80560,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80558\/revisions\/80560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}