Category: Technology & Media
Technology & Media market research reports by IDC
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Worldwide Consumer Digital Life Protection Software Forecast, 2025–2029: Evolution Driving Growth
This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide consumer digital life protection software market for 2025–2029. Despite challenges like cost and complexity, the demand for cybersecurity tools is rising, with vendors offering a range of solutions from antivirus to identity monitoring. The market ... Read More
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Datacenter Energy and Carbon Emission Projections and the Drive to Net Zero, 2025
This IDC Market Perspective details how the rapid expansion of datacenters, driven by digitalization and AI workloads, is leading to significant energy consumption and carbon emissions increases. Datacenter operators are prioritizing sustainability to manage costs and meet net-zero goals, investing ... Read More
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Highlights From LEAP 2025 in Saudi Arabia
LEAP 2025 showcased Saudi Arabia's ambitious vision to lead in technology, digital infrastructure, and AI innovation. The announcements and initiatives from the event illustrate a clear commitment to transforming the country into a global tech hub. With substantial investments in AI, cloud infrastru ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape: AI-Fueled Organization 1.0
This IDC MaturityScape is a guide for organizations planning to evolve their use of all AI technologies, including machine learning (ML), GenAI, and autonomous agents as they strive to improve innovation and operations, as well as customer, citizen, patient, or consumer engagement.“AI is a transform ... Read More
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Backblaze's Expansion into Canada's IaaS Landscape
This IDC Market Note discusses Backblaze's expansion into Canada's IaaS landscape. Backblaze has launched a new datacenter in Toronto, enhancing Canada's cloud services market by addressing data sovereignty and compliance needs. This expansion is exclusively available in Canada through the channel p ... Read More
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Worldwide Workstation Market Shares, 2024 and 4Q24: 7.0% Rebound as the AI Era Kicks Off
This IDC study looks at worldwide workstation market shares in 2024.“The workstation market rebounded nicely in 2024,” states Linn Huang, IDC research vice president of Device and Displays. “Considering we’re only at the tip of the spear of the inbound AI era and in lieu of how important workstation ... Read More
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Worldwide PC Market Shares, 2024 and 4Q24: PC Market Holds Steady at 1.1% Growth
From a vendor perspective, Lenovo finished the calendar year in first place for the sixth consecutive year, extending its lead over HP Inc. by 100 basis points. HP Inc. and Dell remained firmly second and third, respectively. Lenovo and HP Inc. fielded positive growth, while Dell saw market contract ... Read More
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U.S. Printer and MFP Market Shares, 2024: Shipments Decline for Most Vendors as Economic Uncertainty Reigns
This IDC study provides vendor market shares for the printer and MFP market in 2024."Print vendors saw another year of declining shipments and value in 2024, as the return to office continued to slow while economic uncertainty continued to suppress business growth. ASPs, which were boosted by return ... Read More
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The Unified Content Model: Rethinking the Content Supply Chain in the Era of Agentic AI
This IDC Perspective on the Unified Content Model (UCM) 2025 updates a model originally developed in 2022, highlighting the integration of generative AI (GenAI) into a modern content management approach. The Unified Content Model orchestrates content supply chains, enhancing operational efficiency a ... Read More
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Worldwide Tablet Market Shares, 2024 and 4Q24: +12.3% as Market Claws Back Half of 2023's Losses
This IDC study presents the worldwide tablet market shares for 2024 and 4Q24."Tablet shipments rebounded nicely in 2024 after a disastrous 2023," states Linn Huang, research vice president of Devices and Displays at IDC. "More refresh, China subsidies, and incoming AI era could keep this party going ... Read More
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Worldwide Document Workflow Automation and Optimization Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study provides the worldwide forecast for the document workflow automation and optimization market for 2025–2029.“Managing intricate workflows across different departments, systems, and locations can be a major challenge for many organizations,” says Robert Palmer, research vice president f ... Read More
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Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine Simplifies the Migration and Management of VMs
This IDC Market Note examines Red Hat’s recently announced OpenShift Virtualization Engine. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine offers a solution for migrating virtual machines (VMs) from competing hypervisor platforms without the requirements of immediate containerization. It integrates with Re ... Read More
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Digital Twins: Closing the Gap Between the Virtual and the Real Worlds
This IDC Perspective focuses on the adoption of digital twins in the life science industry. It focuses on key growth predictions, global initiatives, enabling technologies, factors critical to the success of digital twin initiatives and the digital twin landscape, and provides guidance to technology ... Read More
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Worldwide Video Platforms Software Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide video platforms software market's 2023 historical data and a five-year forecast through 2028 by geographical region and deployment type. It also provides commentary on market growth and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology su ... Read More
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Taking an Integrated Approach in Securing and Safeguarding AI Use Across the Enterprise
This IDC Perspective highlights the urgent need for enterprises to adopt comprehensive frameworks to secure and safeguard AI usage across their operations. As AI integration accelerates, companies face significant risks, including data privacy issues, security vulnerabilities, and compliance challen ... Read More
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Driving Innovation: ATP and Alibaba Cloud Collaborate to Foster the Turkish Cloud Market
This IDC Market Note discusses the launch of Alibaba Cloud Edge Node Services (ENS) in Türkiye through its local partner ATP. Topics include the implications for ATP and its competitors and the changing deployment strategies of hyperscale cloud providers. IDC expects to see an acceleration of in-cou ... Read More
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New HP PageWide Presses Raise the Bar
This IDC Market Note provides details on two new HP Inc. presses. These new HP PageWide presses are set to raise the bar for production printing systems with a combination of speed and quality that rivals offset printing. ... Read More
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Telefónica Tech: Aiming for Next-Gen IT Solutions Growth
This IDC Market Note presents IDC's view of Telefónica Tech's most recent analyst day, held in London on November 28, 2024. It concentrates on the company's growth strategy and development in specific portfolio areas: IoT, business applications, SASE, AI/data, and cloud. ... Read More
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Automation as a Catalyst: Driving Business Agility, Speed, and Data Integrity
This IDC Perspective aims to provide CIOs, senior IT and technology executives, and other enterprise leaders with insights into how a robust automation strategy can drive businesses to new heights, unlocking new levels of operational efficiency, decision-making speed, and data reliability while also ... Read More
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Worldwide FaaS Market Shares, 2023: Enabling Developers on PaaS
This IDC study presents market share for the worldwide PaaS-delivered FaaS market, a capability of the serverless cloud model, for 2023. It also reports on the prior two years to provide context for how the market has evolved. In addition, it also includes a competitive analysis of the market leader ... Read More
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Worldwide Website Software Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide website software market's 2023 historical data and a four-year forecast through 2028 by geographical region and deployment type. It also provides commentary on market growth and the emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppli ... Read More
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The Path Toward Innovative MES Implementations
This IDC Perspective analyzes the key strategic directions for transformation in manufacturing execution systems (MES) software solutions. This report outlines how MES drives smarter decisions, predictive capabilities, and process optimization for increased efficiency and agility."The MES market is ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: An Enterprise Skills Framework for Human-AI Collaboration
This IDC PlanScape discusses an enterprise skills framework for human-AI collaboration.“Amid AI advancements, human oversight and nuanced skills are critical,” says Gina Smith, PhD, research director, IT Skills for Digital Business, IDC. “To remain competitive, organizations must now begin to cultiv ... Read More
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Inside Intel's Breakup Scenario
This IDC Market Note discusses the potential breakup and sale of Intel amid leadership changes and challenges in its core business. The U.S. administration's shift in priorities and the jeopardy of the CHIPS Act have fueled these discussions. Various companies, including AMD, Qualcomm, and Broadcom, ... Read More
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Worldwide Digital Asset Management Software Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide digital asset management software market in CY23 and a forecast through 2028 by geographical region. It includes commentary on market growth and emerging trends and provides actionable advice for technology suppliers. This document updates the digita ... Read More
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