It’s Not Flash vs HDD; It’s Flash AND HDD: Building AI-Ready Storage Infrastructure

As enterprises across India and the Middle East push AI workloads from pilot to production scale, a quiet bottleneck is emerging—not in compute, but in storage. In this conversation with CIO&Leader, Owais Mohammed, Sales Director, India, Middle East, and Africa at WD, unpacks why the industry’s fixation on GPUs overlooks a more fundamental constraint: feeding those GPUs with data efficiently. Mohammed makes the case against an all-flash future, arguing that high-capacity HDDs remain structurally