https://my.idc.com/rss/2803.do IDC RSS alerts https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US54303326&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC presentation reports on market share for the functions-as-a-service (FaaS) market for CY25. It includes one year of prior-year data to provide context for how the market has evolved and presents a competitive analysis of FaaS market participants. The worldwide FaaS market reached $6.0 billion in 2025, exhibiting 38.2% growth over 2024. The document examines how demand for AI-powered applications and autonomous agents is shaping FaaS adoption and FaaS vendor innovation and positioning, as organizations leverage functions as an execution and orchestration layer for stateful, multistep AI workflows.</P><P>“The worldwide FaaS market reached $6.0 billion in 2025, a 38.2% increase over 2024. AI-powered application and agent development is a primary driver of this growth, as organizations seek to use functions to orchestrate stateful, multistep AI workflows that require memory persistence, ecosystem tool use, and event-driven coordination. AWS, Microsoft, and Google hold the top 3 positions in the market, while Cloudflare recorded the fastest year-over-year growth among named vendors at 79.8%; this growth reflects demand for edge-based FaaS as AI inference workloads expand beyond centralized cloud deployments.” — Matthew Flug, research manager, Intelligent Application Modernization and Deployment Platforms, IDC</P> Market Presentation Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT Matthew Flug https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=EUR154628226&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC study analyzes Cisco Cloud Control, presented at Cisco Live 2026 as a new platform of record designed to simplify complex IT operations without sacrificing depth. Cisco Cloud Control is Cisco's attempt to turn four decades of product breadth into a single operating plane for the agentic era. It unifies networking, security, AI infrastructure, observability, and collaboration alongside third-party tools under one login, one view, and one operating model shared by human teams and AI agents, with identity and policy built into the control path rather than bolted on. </P><P>"Cisco Cloud Control is a credible attempt to turn portfolio breadth into an operating plane for the agentic era. Its key differentiation is the harness itself, with identity, policy, and enforcement built into the control path rather than bolted onto a dashboard. That is what lets agents act on real systems without breaking them and with human-in-the-loop for trust," says Archana Venkatraman, senior research director, Observability, AIOps and agentic governance, IDC. </P> Market Note Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT Archana Venkatraman https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=JPJ53499726&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>本プレゼンテーションは国内データセンターコロケーション市場およびデータセンターファシリティ市場の市場動向をまとめたものである。データセンターファシリティとは、データセンターの冷却システム、電気設備、建設躯体などを指す。</P><P>本プレゼンテーションには、国内データセンターコロケーション市場予測、国内データセンターの面積／電力キャパシティ予測、データセンターの利用に関するユーザー動向の分析などが含まれる。</P> Market Analysis Perspective Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT Mimei Ito https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=lcUS54698526&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>HPE CEO Antonio Neri set the tone from the main stage, declaring "architecture for AI starts with your network" and framing the network as "a security layer," not just a connectivity layer. On day 2, Rami Rahim, HPE's EVP and general manager for Networking, followed Neri directly on the main stage: a signal of strategic priority. Rahim's message was direct: "Your AI is as fast as your network." That framing, repeated across multiple sessions, reflects a company that has internalized the network's centrality to AI outcomes. Optimizing learning, inference, and operations were key datacenter areas covered.</P> IDC Link Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT Paul Nicholson https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=EUR154559826&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC study examines the financial applications software market in EMEA, detailing market shares for leading vendors in 2025.</P><P>The financial applications software market continues to expand as organizations accelerate investments in cloud-based, AI-enabled finance technologies that improve automation, compliance, financial visibility, and decision-making. Demand was further boosted by several new national e-invoicing mandates across the EMEA, partly in response to the EU ViDA initiative.</P><P>"In 2025, the financial applications market in EMEA recorded robust growth. This was largely driven by the migration of legacy solutions to cloud-based financial suites, new adoption of SaaS accounting packages for entry-level businesses, and the wave of e-invoicing mandates sweeping across the region. The EU ViDA initiative accelerated developments while new mandates have been announced in the U.K., Ireland, Norway, and in the Middle East and Africa," said Bo Lykkegaard, associate VP, European software research at IDC.</P> Market Presentation Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT Bo Lykkegaard https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=lcUS54691126&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>AWS' infrastructure commitment at the Summit reflects a multiyear buildout strategy. The $200 billion AI infrastructure commitment for 2026, spanning 39 global regions, 123 availability zones, and 4 GW of new power capacity added in 2025, provides the physical foundation for what AWS describes as its "silicon to agentic solutions" architecture. AWS has publicly stated a goal to double total compute capacity by the end of 2027, a signal that demand projections are running ahead of existing provisioned capacity. The new agentic services — AgentCore Harness, AWS Context, Amazon Quick, and AWS Continuum — indicate that AI Factories offer more than compute capacity alone, evolving toward an integrated infrastructure foundation designed to support and scale enterprise AI workloads.</P> IDC Link Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT Jasdeep Singh https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US54321726&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC Pivot Table banner book provides the data set for the aftermarket service life-cycle management application category of IDC’s 2026 CX Path program. </P><P>The CX Path program includes a total of 14 application categories: advertising, marketing, sales, digital commerce, configure price quote (CPQ), product information management/product experience management (PIM/PXM), contact center and customer service, voice of the customer (VOC), customer experience (CX) orchestration, content and experience management, customer data platforms (CDPs), customer and digital experience analytics, aftermarket service life-cycle management, and price optimization applications.</P><P>Coverage includes application adoption, deployment models, budget plans and replacement cycle timing, purchasing preferences and attitudes toward CX SaaS buying channels, packaging and pricing options, and generative AI and agentic AI adoption and use for CX use cases. In addition, the program provides in-depth vendor reviews, vendor ratings, spend, and advocacy scores for all 14 application markets.</P> Pivot Table Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT Nadia Ballard, Douglas Hayward, Tiffany McCormick, Eric Newmark, Aly Pinder https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=lcUS54691326&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>Backblaze and CoreWeave announced a landmark multi-exabyte, US$335 million strategic storage agreement. Spanning five years, the deal positions Backblaze as a provider of cost-efficient, HDD-based capacity that supports elements of CoreWeave's storage infrastructure. </P><P>By integrating Backblaze's B2 Cloud Storage into CoreWeave's AI Object Storage platform, the partnership enables the seamless tiering of massive AI data sets. This architecture allows CoreWeave to dedicate its premium, high-performance flash storage exclusively to GPU-accelerated compute workloads while leveraging Backblaze for scalable, long-term data retention.</P> IDC Link Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT Dave McCarthy, Jasdeep Singh https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US53051426&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC Innovators presentation identifies three companies developing industry-specific solutions in a growing market driven by demand for verticalized AI, data integration, and governance across complex, highly regulated industries.</P><P>“These emerging vertical software leaders highlight the importance of meaningful differentiation, which today increasingly lies in domain-specific AI, proprietary data access, workflow design, and integration depth,” said Nadia Ballard, research director, AI Verticalization and Industry Cloud Strategies at IDC.</P> IDC Innovators Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT Nadia Ballard https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=AP54055926&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=rss_syndication <P>This IDC Survey examines how organizations across Asia/Pacific are scaling cloud-based AI and generative AI (GenAI) GenAI workloads.</P> IDC Survey Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT Daphne Chung