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IDC Survey Spotlight: Which Cloud Architectures Are the Most Deployed in Europe?

Carla Arend — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes which cloud architectures are the most deployed in Europe, including France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. It analyzes responses from 355 IT decision-makers and shows which cloud architectures European cloud users have deployed, including hybrid cloud, private cloud, multicloud, sovereign cloud, and neocloud.

AI Rewrites the Optical Network Investment Playbook

Ajeet Das — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note explores how AI is fundamentally reshaping the optical network investment landscape. AI-driven bandwidth demand is now the primary force shaping optical network investments, as operators shift from routine upgrades to structural changes focused on AI and edge datacenter interconnects. Over the next three years, the market will see a leap in network capacity, with 6T becoming the dominant tier and bypassing incremental upgrades. Vendors and service providers must align their strategies with this rapid transition to capture emerging opportunities in AI- and edge-driven optical infrastructure.

"AI isn't just driving optical network investment; it's rewriting the entire playbook, forcing operators to leap generations into capacity planning." — Ajeet Das, research director, Telcom Network Infrastructure, IDC

IDC MarketScape: 中国生成式AI的安全评估平台2026年厂商评估

Jackson Chen — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究通过IDC MarketScape厂商评估模型对中国生成式AI的安全评估平台提供商进行了评估。研究对象包含了在中国生成式AI的安全评估平台市场具备一定技术水平和市场规模，并且在该领域有持续投入规划，具备不断完善产品和服务能力的主流厂商。厂商类型涵盖国内综合型安全厂商、专业数据安全厂商，以及云计算服务提供商等。IDC针对入选的提供商的能力和战略进行综合评估，评估标准包括收入规模、产品技术能力、行业和客户拓展、生态系统建设以及未来发展战略等方面。各维度根据市场情况进一步划分为若干细分项，并配以不同权重，从而形成IDC MarketScape综合评分体系，通过IDC分析师针对各个厂商和大量最终用户的深入访谈，综合分析并确定各厂商在IDC MarketScape中的相对位置，并探讨厂商的特点和战略，总结发展趋势，为企业级客户选择生成式AI的安全评估平台能力提供商提供参考。

“从市场发展阶段来看，生成式AI的安全评估平台正从早期的合规检测工具向面向企业AI治理的基础安全能力平台演进。随着大模型在政企、金融、制造、互联网等关键行业加速落地，企业关注点已由’模型是否可用’逐步转向’模型是否安全、可靠、可控’，安全评估平台将成为保障生成式AI规模化应用的重要支撑。当前，该类产品正朝着覆盖模型安全、数据安全、内容安全、智能体安全以及持续运营管理的综合治理能力方向发展。同时，随着行业标准体系逐步完善，评估指标、测试数据集和自动化评测能力将成为厂商构建差异化竞争优势的关键。未来大模型安全评估、大模型应用防火墙、智能体安全检测等能力将进一步平台化融合，形成统一的AI安全管理体系，推动生成式AI从’可用’迈向’可信’。”——IDC中国网络安全分析师陈佳表示。

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Is the State of IaaS Cloud Adoption in Europe?

Carla Arend — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the state of IaaS cloud adoption in Europe, including France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. It analyzes responses from 355 IT decision-makers and shows how European cloud users are distributed across different cloud adoption stages, including cloud repatriation.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Managed Cloud Services Forecast, 2026–2030 — A Competitive Services View of Technology Outsourcing Services Markets

David Tapper — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides forecasts of spending for the managed cloud services market for 2026–2030.

"The addition of AI, particularly agentic AI, to managed services, will require managed service providers (SPs) to change their business models that include supporting the full stack of technologies from infrastructure to applications, incorporating new BPO-style SLAs and SLOs, determining what pricing models will effectively work, investing in a new operating model focused on autonomous operations and incorporating governance that can manage and mitigate risks while optimizing outcomes." — David Tapper, program vice president, Outsourcing and Managed Cloud Services at IDC

Market Share: Worldwide Cloud and Datacenter Networks Shares, 2025

Petr Jirovsky, Paul Nicholson — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study examines the 2025 market shares of the leading vendors in the cloud and datacenter networks market.

Rapid AI-driven infrastructure buildouts reshaped the competitive landscape in 2025 and drove fast growth across the market. Vendors raced to meet surging demand for high-performance datacenter connectivity, with hyperscale and neocloud demand driving much of the movement in vendor rankings.

"The datacenter network market has seen substantial growth and been transformed by AI workloads spanning generative AI through to inference, alongside accelerating cloud expansion and network modernization," said Paul Nicholson, research vice president, Cloud and Datacenter Networks at IDC.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform Gets an MCP Server

Rob Tiffany — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Nutanix has announced an open-source, Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Nutanix Cloud Platform, giving AI agents and coding assistants a governed pathway to operate hybrid cloud infrastructure through natural-language commands. The move reflects a broader infrastructure-vendor pattern of wrapping agentic AI access in existing role-based access control, auditing, and throttling frameworks rather than exposing raw APIs, signaling that enterprise AI operations adoption will hinge as much on governance guardrails as on automation capability.

Building the AI-Ready Enterprise: Cisco's Vision for Integrated Infrastructure and Security

Sakshi Grover, Pushkaraksh Shanbhag, Rajiv Ranjan, Vinay Gupta — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note presents IDC's key observations from Cisco India Analyst Day 2026, held in Bengaluru, India. The event highlighted Cisco's strategy to enable AI-ready enterprises through the convergence of AI infrastructure, networking, security, observability, customer experience, and AI-driven operations. IDC examines how Cisco is evolving from a networking-centric portfolio toward an integrated platform approach designed to simplify AI operationalization, strengthen cyber-resilience, and support enterprise AI deployments at scale.

Inside IBM Think Singapore 2026: Enterprise AI Operating Model, Sovereign Deployment, and the Forward-Deployed Engineer

Cathy Huang — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes announcements and analyst takeaways from IBM Think Singapore 2026, covering IBM's enterprise AI operating model, the Bob AI development companion, the Sovereign Core sovereignty platform, and IBM's forward-deployed engineering and partner strategy, along with IDC's assessment.

"At IBM Think Singapore, it's clear to see the enterprises pulling ahead on AI didn't bolt it on. They rebuilt data, process, and governance foundations first and are now significantly ahead of peers still waiting for a safer entry point," Cathy Huang, senior research director, Worldwide Security Services at IDC.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Cloud and Datacenter Networks Forecast, 2026–2030

Paul Nicholson, Petr Jirovsky — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the cloud and datacenter networks market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth. This presentation also forecasts and analyzes key trends impacting the worldwide market for datacenter networking for the 2026–2030 period.

“The datacenter network market is entering a period of robust growth, fueled by AI workloads spanning generative AI through to inference, alongside accelerating cloud expansion and network modernization.” — Paul Nicholson, research vice president, Cloud and Datacenter Networks, IDC