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Ben Kothe

Like all professional relationships, the interplay between enterprise AI and data requires care and caution—but a new survey suggests the two don’t always work well together.

The research, from Nasuni, a data platform that focuses on unstructured data and cloud storage, shows how mishandling the relationship can lead to security breaches, gaps in data quality, and misuse of AI technology.

Parag Pathak, Nasuni VP of product marketing, told IT Brew that the company surveyed 1,000 purchasing decision-makers from around the world to get a sense of how the technology is deployed and data is managed. The company’s State of Enterprise File Data 2026 report details how unstructured data is impacting enterprises as they determine the best approach to AI implementation.

“A year or two ago, the biggest thing around AI was the models—do I have the better model, do you have the better model,” Pathak said. “What this report is surfacing is that it’s no longer the model, it’s the upstream data.”

How do we fix this relationship?—EH

☕ Managed chaos