Category: Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing market research reports by IDC
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Top 5 Trends in Security Information and Event Management Systems
This IDC Perspective explores five key security information and event management (SIEM) trends for 2025 and provides strategic and tactical guidance for CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs to maximize their security investments. As cyberthreats evolve, security information and event management solutions are becom ... Read More
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NIS2: Services Partners Ready to Provide Digital Business Support
This IDC Perspective discusses NIS2 compliance requirements, the challenges for businesses, the importance of business continuity, incident management measures, and seeking independent expert support to ensure a streamlined and value-added digital business. It leverages insights from IDC's cloud dat ... Read More
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Bridging the Gap: The Missing Piece in Managed SSE Providers’ Market Messaging
This IDC Market Perspective explores the missing elements in market positioning, emphasizing the role of service providers in solution fitment, transition management, and continuous optimization. Many managed SSE service providers focus their market messaging on solution capabilities while overlooki ... Read More
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Strategic Data Platforms for Hybrid Cloud: Enabling Scalable Advanced Analytics, AI, and Agentic AI Capabilities
This IDC Perspective highlights significant trends in the adoption of modern data platforms, driving seamless AI/ML integration, workload optimization, and cost-effective, scalable deployment across hybrid cloud, on-prem, and edge environments. A hybrid cloud strategy ensures AI is embedded across c ... Read More
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Google Launches South African Cloud Region: Implications for Service Providers and Cloud Customers
This IDC Market Note provides IDC's opinions on the impact of Google's in-country cloud region in Johannesburg, South Africa."Google's formal opening of its first African cloud datacenter is a significant commitment to the local market. Google is late to market with local resources, but has grown a ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Data Management and Governance Practices to Boost Modernization
This IDC PeerScape explores how organizations can adopt data governance models that boost modernization and security practices, thereby improving data quality and access and driving better business decisions."An effective program aligns data governance elements with AI strategy. It prioritizes criti ... Read More
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SAS Insight 2025: Analytics for Defense and National Security
This IDC Market Note looks at the announcements and discussions from the SAS Insight 2025 industry analyst conference. The event highlighted the significant changes and improvements that SAS has gone through to both align its products with the current direction of the market and to prepare for an ev ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Successfully Deploying Multicloud Environments in Federal/National Government
This IDC PeerScape examines best practices from federal and central government agencies in deploying cloud.Cloud computing has become a strategic pillar for federal/national governments agencies in the U.S. and beyond. Cloud enables rapid development of digital services, data integration, and legacy ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific Managed Cloud Services Market Forecast, 2024–2028
This IDC Market Forecast reveals significant growth in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) managed cloud services (MCS) market. It is projected to expand from US$10.8 billion in 2023 to US$22.6 billion by 2028 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.8%. This growth is underpinned by the ... Read More
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Vertice Continues Momentum with Series C Funding
This IDC Market Note examines Vertice's latest Series C funding round. Vertice, a SaaS and cloud spend optimization platform launched in 2021, has secured $50 million in Series C funding, bringing its total to over $100 million. The platform, which added intelligent workflow capabilities in 2024, ai ... Read More
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Amazon Web Services Accelerates Cloud Migration and Modernization with GenAI
This study highlights information from a briefing on how Amazon Web Services (AWS) is embracing GenAI to enable cloud migration and modernization for enterprise customers. GenAI has transformed cloud migration by automating tasks, improving decision making, and optimizing resources, significantly re ... Read More
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State of FinOps Survey, 2025
This IDC Market Note discusses the FinOps Foundation’s latest annual State of FinOps Survey released on February 20, 2025. Companies continue to grow and expand FinOps staffing and scope. IDC found that most enterprises operate in hybrid mode while spending heavily on public cloud and SaaS. FinOps t ... Read More
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When Modernizing, Apply Architectural Principles to Build Resiliency for Critical Applications
This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive road map for CIOs to architect resilient IT environments by aligning technology investments with business goals while balancing cost and performance. In the modern digital era, resilience has become a cornerstone of effective IT strategy. Organizations f ... Read More
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Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Market Shares, 2024: A Year of Massive Growth Spurred by Rising Cloud and OEM Demand
This IDC study reviews the worldwide HDD vendor market shares for 2024."Worldwide HDD industry revenue rebounded sharply in 2024 due to strong demand from cloud service providers coupled with growth from enterprise OEMs as inventories normalized from the elevated levels seen during the latter part o ... Read More
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Worldwide Functions as a Service Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study provides the worldwide functions as a service (FaaS) market forecast for 2024 to 2028. It also presents regional forecasts and a discussion of significant market developments and leading market participants. “The FaaS market is forecast to grow from $3.2 billion in 2023 to $13.4 billi ... Read More
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Six Lessons from NRF 2025: Everything I Need to Know About Hospitality and Travel Digital Strategies I Learned from a 90s Movie
This IDC Perspective reflects upon the major themes and trends presented at the National Retail Federation's Big Show and Expo 2025 (NRF 2025) and how they apply to hospitality and travel organizations. With the rapid growth of AI, particularly agentic AI, hospitality and travel organizations will n ... Read More
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How to Deal with the Shortage of Skills Needed for Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty is becoming crucial as nations and organizations aim to secure data, comply with regulations, and reduce their reliance on foreign technology. The success of these initiatives hinges on addressing skill gaps in cybersecurity, data governance, and cloud management. Upskilling and ... Read More
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Events in European Predictive, Advanced, and Visual Analytics and Machine Learning, 2H24
This IDC Market Note details key moves in the analytics and business intelligence market in Europe between June and December 2024, focusing on tech vendor investments, mergers, and acquisitions. It also includes market moves outside of these areas that illustrate broader market trends. ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Industry Clouds
This IDC PlanScape discusses how industry clouds offer a specialized model for deploying cloud services, integrating industry-specific functions, applications, and data into a single ecosystem. They provide significant benefits such as improved productivity, collaboration, and analytics — especially ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific Refocuses on Hybrid Architectures
This Market Perspective looks into the main drivers of hybrid cloud across the Asia/Pacific markets, and provides technology vendors with information on how best to position themselves favorably with technology buyers looking to either repatriate workloads from the public cloud or deploy new workloa ... Read More
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Introducing the National Security, Defense, and Intelligence Program: Focusing on Mission Technology Investments and Outcomes
This IDC Perspective details IDC‘s National Security, Defense, and Intelligence program that looks at six emerging technology areas especially relevant to the defense and national security mission: AI, data management and analytics, cybersecurity, mission-specific platforms, cloud, and professional ... Read More
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Worldwide Cloud-Native XDR Forecast, 2025-2029: Finding the Meaning Beyond the Three-Letter Acronym
This IDC study presents forecast data for the worldwide cloud-native XDR market for the 2025–2029 period.“Businesses honestly do not care the name of the security stack that they buy,” notes Chris Kissel, vice president, IDC Security and Trust. “Companies only want solutions that cut down on the mea ... Read More
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Cloud Development Environments: Mapping Key Approaches, Capabilities, and Vendors in 2025
This IDC Perspective explores the evolution and significance of cloud development environments (CDEs) and the ways they fit the agenda of software delivery and platform engineering teams. It discusses likely benefits and risks posed by CDEs and maps the competitive landscape, segmenting vendors base ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Leveraging Integrated Bank Payment Platforms
This IDC PeerScape delves into the challenges around bank payment platforms and the practices to optimize payment modernization."Banks around the world, despite different regulatory regimes, different rails, and different customers, face many of the same challenges," according to Aaron Press, resear ... Read More
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SAS Insight 2025 Conference: Responsible Innovation Amid Market Uncertainties
This IDC Market Note details the SAS Insight 2025 conference, which highlighted SAS’ commitment to responsible innovation amid data saturation and automation, emphasizing productivity, compute power, platform modernization, and cloud expansion. Key developments included advancements in AI, digital t ... Read More
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