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IDC Survey: Cloud AI Budgets and Agentic AI Deployment in Europe

Carla Arend — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines cloud AI budgets and the deployment of agentic AI across European organizations, drawing on IDC’s Cloud Pulse Survey, 1Q26, of 340 respondents. It explores the expected direction of cloud AI spending in 2026, the primary drivers behind budget increases and decreases, and how investment patterns vary across major European markets. The study also covers the share of cloud AI budgets allocated to agentic AI; the maturity of agentic deployments; levels of agent autonomy; leading enterprise use cases; key deployment challenges spanning reliability, security, and integration; and recurring monthly spending on AI agent operations.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Much Are Datacenter Operators Investing in Buildouts and How Does That Vary by Region?

Mikhail Jaura — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey spotlight examines how CAPEX and OPEX are differentiated across North America, Asia/Pacific, and Western Europe, highlighting key survey questions in IDC's Datacenter Facilities and Operations Survey, January 2026 (n = 320).

The State of WebAssembly, 2Q26

Matthew Flug — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation examines the state of WebAssembly (Wasm) as it expands beyond the browser into server-side, edge, and on-device deployments in 2Q26. Drawing on IDC survey data, the presentation assesses how organizations are positioning Wasm alongside containers (where adoption is concentrating across security, AI, and scalability use cases) and which tooling and standardization gaps continue to bound workloads that Wasm can address. The presentation also evaluates how Wasm supports emerging AI agent workloads through sandboxed, deny-by-default execution and capability-based access, and the path toward Wasm operating as embedded infrastructure within edge networks, cloud function services, and plug-in hosts.

"WebAssembly is moving from a browser technology toward an invisible infrastructure embedded beneath the platforms developers already use. Server-side adoption is expanding as a complement to containers rather than a replacement, with buyers focusing on security isolation, edge inference, and sandboxed AI agent execution. Wasm's progress toward increased adoption still depends on continued WASI maturation and wider language and tooling support," said Matthew Flug, research manager, Intelligent Application Modernization and Deployment Platforms at IDC

AI-Powered IT Vendor Rationalization: Why, When, How?

Dr. Ron Babin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explains that as IT portfolios grow in complexity — driven by SaaS sprawl, cloud proliferation, and decentralized procurement — vendor rationalization has become a strategic imperative for CIOs. This document addresses three questions: Why to rationalize, when to act, and how to execute? The document presents a phased framework anchored in AI-powered discovery, the 4R decision model, TCO modeling, and continuous governance — transforming rationalization from a periodic exercise into a living capability that reduces costs, mitigates risk, and builds a resilient IT supply chain.

"Managing a bloated IT vendor portfolio is not just a cost problem — it is a risk, governance, and innovation problem. CIOs who pursue AI-powered rationalization as a continuous discipline will build leaner portfolios and redirect savings toward the investments that differentiate their business," says Dr. Ron Babin, adjunct research advisor for IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).

Egypt and Morocco Cloud Trends, 2026

George Ayad — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation examines how cloud adoption is evolving in Egypt and Morocco as AI reshapes enterprise infrastructure priorities, modernization strategies, and provider selection. Drawing on IDC’s 2025 Worldwide Cloud Survey, executive interviews, and local market analysis, the report explores how these two North African markets differ in terms of cloud maturity, deployment models, modernization pathways, and cloud-based AI adoption. It also highlights the policies, localized data residency regulations, infrastructure investments, skills, and governance factors influencing growth across the region. Finally, it provides technology vendors, service providers, and enterprise buyers with a clear view of where demand is accelerating, what barriers still constrain value realization, and how AI is changing the next phase of cloud investment in two of North Africa’s most important growth markets.

Equinix Launches Sixth Datacenter in Hong Kong: AI-Ready HK6 and AI Discovery Hub to Anchor Enterprise AI

Mikhail Jaura — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 16, 2026, Equinix launched its AI-ready HK6 datacenter in Hong Kong, which delivers direct-to-chip liquid cooling for GPU densities well beyond what air-cooled facilities support. This latest datacenter complements the AI Discovery Hub, which Equinix launched in early 2Q26: an open, NVIDIA-powered testing environment built with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) that pairs an AI factory at-scale solution with embedded governance guardrails inside HK6. The HK6 launch and the AI Discovery Hub show Equinix shifting colocation from raw space and power toward a curated, governance-first foundation for enterprise and sovereign AI across the Greater Bay Area, and buyers should now treat AI readiness, meaning liquid cooling, interconnection density, and built-in policy controls, as a procurement requirement rather than a road map item.

IDC Cloud Pulse, 1Q26: Executive Summary

Rob Tiffany — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC’s 1Q26 Cloud Pulse Survey findings. It covers cloud buyer priorities, cloud strategy, AI spending and deployment, and agentic AI adoption.

IDC Survey: Building Resilient Cloud and AI Strategies — The Critical Role of Skills in Europe's AI and Cloud Transformation

George Ayad — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines how skills are shaping organizations' ability to align cloud and AI strategies across Europe. The findings show that skills shortages are no longer a secondary workforce issue: they are already affecting cloud value realization, AI-cloud alignment, modernization progress, and business outcomes. The research highlights that the most acute gaps are concentrated in AI and data analytics, agentic AI skills, and cloud security, while organizations are responding through modernization, upskilling, and more capability-led provider choices. The findings are based on IDC's Cloud Survey conducted in late 2025, surveying over 1,000 European organizations.

Market Forecast：国内クラウド向けITサービス市場予測、2026年～2030年

Tatsuhiro Soga — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内クラウド向けITサービス市場について、ベンダーおよびユーザー動向を調査し、包括的にまとめたものである。IDCではITサービス市場およびクラウドサービス市場の動向を整理し、「クラウド向けITサービス」の市場定義を策定し、同定義に基づき、需要サイド方法論を用いて、企業／公共機関／団体／個人における同サービス支出額から市場規模の算出、予測を行っている。

「国内企業のAI（Artificial Intelligence）利用目的が「効率化」から「価値創造」へシフトするにつれ、AIエージェントの稼働基盤としてクラウドの重要性はいっそう高まるであろう。その際に「ITサービスベンダーは、複数のAIエージェントや既存システムを連携させるクラウドアーキテクチャの設計力に加え、AIエージェントのガバナンス設計能力、その稼働基盤を健全に維持するための包括的なクラウドマネージドサービスを提供するケイパビリティが求められる」と、IDC Japan、Software, Services, and IT Spendingのリサーチアナリストである曽我龍宏は述べている。

The Most Immediate Challenges to Measuring Value and Team Augmentation in Agentic Software Delivery

George Mironescu — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective addresses three considerations dominating market discussions on how to capture, compare, and evidence the value of agentic software delivery.

"Before any value discussion, agentic software delivery is first a costing discussion. Token economics has broken the budgeting models software engineering leaders have relied on, calling for new approaches on the buyer side or new tooling to instrument, automate, and optimize token consumption — or both," says George Mironescu, associate research director, Software Development and Delivery, IDC.