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IDC Market Glance: Digital Twins in Regional and Local Government, 2Q26

Alison Brooks, Ph.D., Ruthbea Yesner — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Digital twins are crossing into mainstream use in regional and local government. Globally, 42% of state and local government organizations report using digital twins today; another 25% are planning additional investment, and more than one-fifth plan to start within the next 12 to 18 months. This IDC Market Glance maps the vendor landscape across five segments: place-based digital twin platforms, industry-specific twins (covering critical infrastructure and utilities, public safety and emergency response, transportation and mobility, and environmental and climate monitoring), physical world data acquisition, digital twin enabling technologies, and building and facility twin platforms.

Three forces are reshaping this market. First, the cost and complexity of implementation have dropped materially: lower sensor costs, edge processing, and AI-native APIs have made real-time physical system modeling accessible to governments that could not have justified the investment five years ago. Second, partnerships among geospatial leaders, systems integrators, and hyperscalers are becoming the dominant delivery model, because no single vendor can cover the full stack from data acquisition through simulation and action. Closed, monolithic vendors risk being designed out of major government programs as a result. Third, the definition of what a twin can represent is broadening: governments are deploying policy twins, mission twins, and ocean environment twins alongside city-scale infrastructure models, and each new application type creates demand for new categories of vendor capability.

For government buyers, the decision-making calculus starts with mission outcome, rather than platform considerations. Investments anchored to a specific operational problem and funded to sustain the live data pipelines that keep the twin current are delivering lasting value. A model without a continuously updated sensor, camera, and operational system feeds reverts to a static visualization. For vendors, the market's direction toward open APIs and AI-native interoperability by default is now considered table stakes; requests for proposal (RFPs) are already reflecting this expectation. Policy and mission twins are on track to become the default decision-support layer for major public programs in the near term, making the current window a critical one for establishing platform and partnership position.

Worldwide Converged and Hyperconverged Systems Market Overview, 4Q25

Rajiv Ranjan — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides a quarterly (4Q25) and full-year (2025) update on the performance of the overall converged systems market and its three subsegments: hyperconverged systems, integrated platforms, and certified reference systems and integrated infrastructure. It also provides an overview of the market's performance over the past five quarters, broken down by subsegment, vendor, and region.

中国私有云CWPP市场份额，2025：私有云CWPP加速融合云原生技术，依托AI实现轻量化智能防护

James Wang, Joe Zhao — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本次IDC研究主要阐述2025年中国私有云云工作负载保护平台（CWPP）市场的规模、厂商份额以及技术发展变化等内容。

“2025年私有云CWPP市场小幅收缩，头部格局稳固。AI深度赋能产品，智能研判、业务基线、多模态防护广泛应用，同时新型AI攻击加剧风险。行业走向平台化整合，租户隔离、防勒索、异构算力适配等技术需求持续上升。”——赵义，IDC中国安全和信任领域高级研究经理

Market Forecast：国内AI市場予測、2026年～2030年

Takuya Uemura — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内AI（Artificial Intelligence）市場について、2025年5月下旬までに収集した情報を基に定性的かつ定量的な分析結果をまとめ、2030年までの市場支出額を予測するものである。

国内AI市場は2025年に大幅な成長を記録し、AIエージェントの実ビジネス適用を起点に本格的な拡大局面に入ったとIDCではみている。予測期間を通じて高い成長が続き、特にソフトウェアが市場全体を大きく上回る成長を示す。なかでも、基盤モデルを含むAIプラットフォームは最高成長を記録し、AIエージェント時代のテクノロジー競争の主戦場となる。また、ハードウェアはセミソブリンAI投資が牽引し、サービスはPOC（Proof of Concept）から本番移行と業務変革支援を背景に着実に拡大する。「国内AI市場は、AIエージェントの業務利用と実用化を起点に、ソフトウェア／サービス／ハードウェアが相互に牽引し拡大する局面に入った。成長を主導するのはAIプラットフォームを含むソフトウェアであるが、その普及はインフラ投資や導入／業務変革を支えるサービス需要も同時に押し上げる。ITサプライヤーには、エコシステム全体で価値を提供する競争力が求められる」と、IDC Japan、AI and Automation のシニアリサーチマネージャーである植村卓弥は述べている。

Effective Agent Cost Management: A Practitioner's Framework for Planning, Sourcing, Implementation, and Operations

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive, practitioner-focused framework for effective AI agent cost management, emphasizing that every dollar of wasted spend is a governance failure. Covering planning, sourcing, implementation, and operations, it details actionable steps for budgeting, cost modeling, governance, and continuous optimization. The framework guides organizations to transform unpredictable AI costs into strategic, auditable investments by integrating financial discipline, technical controls, and cross-functional accountability throughout the AI agent adoption journey.

"Every dollar of wasted AI agent spend is a governance failure," according to Shari Lava, group vice president, AI at IDC. "Are you ready to turn unpredictable costs into strategic, auditable investments?"

HPE Discover 2026: From AI Infrastructure to the Agentic Enterprise

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

HPE Discover 2026 marked a meaningful step in HPE's shift from an AI infrastructure provider to an enterprise AI operating platform. The event centered on operationalizing AI at scale through a more unified architecture spanning GreenLake, Private Cloud AI, networking, storage, security, and financial services. HPE positioned GreenLake Intelligence as an emerging control plane for agentic operations. Private Cloud AI also expanded its focus to governance, data readiness, and production AI workflows. Networking emerged as one of the most strategically significant themes of the event. Following the Juniper acquisition, HPE is positioning networking as both an enabler of AI infrastructure and a beneficiary of AI-driven automation. Self-driving networking was another major theme, reinforced by deeper Aruba–Juniper integration across campus, datacenter, edge, and AI Factory environments. HPE also sharpened its infrastructure economics story through Morpheus, VMware migration offers, HPE Financial Services (HPEFS), and new ecosystem partnerships. Collectively, the announcements position HPE around governance, autonomous operations, networking intelligence, sovereignty, and AI-era economics.

Parallels RAS Expands Infrastructure Boundaries with Custom Provider Framework

Filippo Vanara — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note analyzes Parallels’ latest update to its Parallels RAS by introducing a new Custom Provider Framework that enables organizations to integrate virtually any hypervisor or cloud platform into their Parallels RAS environments.

“Organizations are increasingly looking for digital workspace platforms that can adapt to diverse infrastructure strategies without adding operational rigidity,” says Filippo Vanara, senior research analyst, Worldwide Enterprise Client Computing Platforms at IDC. “As IT teams balance hybrid, on-premises, cloud, and regional infrastructure requirements alongside evolving compliance, sovereignty, and operational resiliency priorities, infrastructure flexibility is becoming an increasingly important consideration.”

AVEVA World 2026: A New Operating Model Reality — Agentic AI, Platform Consolidation, and the Industrial Intelligence Imperative

Frank Della Rosa — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note captures intelligence from AVEVA World 2026, which showcased AVEVA’s transformation into the platform backbone for AI-driven industrial enterprises, emphasizing agentic AI, platform consolidation, and strategic M&A. The company’s deep investment in engineering software, robust digital twin capabilities, and multicloud strategy position it ahead of competitors, while low churn and strong platform stickiness underpin growth. AVEVA’s focus on platform-centric innovation and geographic expansion, especially in APAC, signals a durable competitive advantage in the evolving industrial intelligence landscape.

“In the new operating reality, agentic AI isn’t an option — it’s the backbone redefining industrial intelligence, platform power, and competitive survival.” — Frank Della Rosa, research vice president, SaaS, Business Platforms, and Industry Cloud, IDC

IDC Market Glance: European Infrastructure-as-a-Service Market by Compliance Category, 2Q26

Carla Arend — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance highlights the ongoing transformation of the European infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market as compliance, sovereignty, operational stability, and digital autonomy become increasingly central to enterprise cloud strategies. This study provides a concise visual overview of the evolving European IaaS ecosystem, including hyperscalers, regional cloud providers, telecom operators, and sovereign cloud initiatives associated with key compliance and security frameworks such as SecNumCloud, C5, CISPE, and Gaia-X.

Tata Consultancy Services Digital Sovereignty Approach: IT Practicalities and Possibilities, Not Politics and Pipe Dreams

Rahiel Nasir — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) launch of SovereignSecure Cloud for Europe, announced in Frankfurt on May 26, 2026. The offering targets governments, public sector enterprises, and regulated industries through a three-layer architecture spanning hyperscaler-backed sovereign cloud, national sovereign cloud, and TCS' own enterprise orchestration layer. A companion Sovereignty Consulting and Delivery Framework introduces the concept of a minimum viable sovereign enterprise (MVSE), a risk-based posture in which the level of sovereign protection applied is calibrated to workload importance rather than universally applied.

IDC's view is that the proposition is well aligned with how European buyers now think about sovereignty — selectively applied, evidence-based, and tightly coupled to regulatory compliance. TCS' risk-based MVSE approach, pragmatic exclusions, and consulting-led posture differentiate it from the sovereign-by-design claims found elsewhere in the market. However, TCS will need to address extraterritoriality more transparently, given its Indian parent, broaden the proposition to cover supply chain, AI, network, skills, and assurance sovereignty more explicitly, elevate continuous assurance to a named workstream, and strengthen its France engagement and country-level certification road map to match the most demanding European buyer requirements.

"TCS' minimum viable sovereign enterprise approach is a refreshingly pragmatic anchor for the European sovereign cloud market — it treats sovereignty as risk management, not as a marketing label. With open questions still to address on extraterritoriality, key management, operator-generated metadata, and a broader taxonomy of sovereignty to build out, TCS SovereignSecure Cloud is one to watch as Europe's digital sovereignty market continues to heat up," says Rahiel Nasir, research director, Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure Services, IDC.