Manila, Philippines – More than 90% of Philippine respondents say AI-ready infrastructure is important to workflow efficiency and productivity, while 70% cite data security and privacy as a key challenge to AI adoption, according to a report from Synology.
The results show that the value of AI depends not only on the applications, but also on whether the data behind them can be accessed, managed and protected across the systems where it resides.
“AI creates value when it helps people do their work better and enables the business to respond more effectively to its customers,” said Antoine Yang, Southeast Asia Head of Synology.
“Our focus is to help organizations sustain those gains as adoption grows, with data they can trust and a dependable path to recovery when disruption occurs,” Yang added.
The survey also highlights several data-management issues. Around 47% of respondents cite data quality and availability as challenges, while 40% report that their data is scattered across different environments.
In addition, nearly 40% say they lack visibility into how information submitted to third-party AI tools is managed.
Infrastructure preferences reflect these concerns. Approximately 74% of respondents favour on-premises or hybrid approaches, compared with 9.9% who prioritise public cloud.
Confidence in recovery also shows a gap. While 72.4% of respondents express confidence in their ability to recover from ransomware using protected backups, only 25.4% describe themselves as very confident.
Claire Huang, Philippines Country Manager of Synology, addressed that gap. “As businesses expand their data infrastructure, they also need confidence that essential services can recover when disruption occurs,” she said.
