Their decades long usage of consulting companies to be a sycophantic permission giver, since they don’t want to bother making well founded good business decisions. “Don’t blame me, I hired a consult and they said to do this. If decision was the wrong one, it is the consults fault. Then we hire a consult to figure out what the last consult did wrong. Then consult to consult on the consultation of the second consult on the first consults consultation”. Please pay me millions and millions of dollar to be a consult hiring person. Oh and please a golden parachute promise also, in case I need to get fired pronto.
If one was able to do good decisions on ones own, is confident on those decisions and able to make the arguments to back up the decision, one wouldn’t need to hire the consults to be the professional fall guys.
edit: Oh and I don’t know is it really needed, but well it is evidence point that also exists. So they simply changed “consult” to “AI agent”
Probably for storing large training data libraries. Takes vast storage, but only need to be periodically accessed during training run on that specific part of library. Once the training is done, there is no need to have online access to the data.
Plus with tape drive library robots, it’s not like they have to be manually handling the tapes often.