Actian-BARC Study Finds 55% Cite Data Sensitivity in Considering AI Outside Cloud

• Actian's 2026 study with BARC finds enterprises moving beyond cloud-only AI toward workload-specific deployment, based on 329 respondents globally.
• Growing sensitivity of internal data prompted 55% of respondents to consider AI deployment outside the cloud.
• Increased AI use in core or mission-critical processes drove 49% to consider deployment outside the cloud.
• Cloud remains foundational, but workload placement increasingly reflects security, sovereignty and control requirements rather than a cloud-first approach.

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