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IDC MarketScape: North America Public Cloud Object Storage 2026–2027 Vendor Assessment

Dave McCarthy, Jasdeep Singh — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC MarketScape evaluates providers of public cloud object storage in North America, scoring durability and resilience architecture, performance, security and access control, life-cycle and tiering mechanics, data services, and the commercial structures through which capacity is consumed.

The assessment finds that capacity and 11 nines of durability are no longer differentiating. Competitive separation now comes from two places: whether the storage layer actively participates in the workloads that read from it and whether the commercial model remains legible as data grows.

"Object storage stopped being a commodity the moment workloads started reading from it directly," said Dave McCarthy, group vice president at IDC. "When analytics queries, training pipelines and agents all operate against the bucket rather than a copy staged somewhere else, the storage layer starts determining query performance, accelerator utilization and how much data engineering a workload needs before it can run at all. That is a platform decision, not a capacity purchase, and providers no longer converge on the same answer."

IBM TechXchange 2026: Governing Agents at Scale

Jim Mercer, Matthew Flug — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

IBM used TechXchange 2026 in Atlanta, the first held alongside HashiConf, to argue that the primary enterprise challenge in the agentic era has shifted from building agents to scaling and governing them. Announcements spanned agent identity, a cross-platform watsonx Orchestrate control plane, Terraform and Vault for agentic infrastructure, the Concert operations platform, Bob 2.0, and Z Atlas. IBM says only 25% of today's agents are enterprise ready, and its answer to scalability is a layered stack of identity, context, orchestration, and operations.

Market Share: Saudi Arabia Public Cloud Services Shares, 2025

Jebin George — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the 2025 market shares of the leading vendors in Saudi Arabia's public cloud services market. The market grew 31.5% year on year to reach $4.5 billion in 2025, with growth broad enough to lift nearly every vendor while leaving the competitive order largely intact. The presentation analyzes revenue and share for the top 10 vendors across 2024 and 2025, identifies the delivery models that separated share gainers from share losers, and examines the emergence of model-layer consumption as a distinct competitive layer. It also covers the vendors and events that shaped the year, the market's treatment in current and constant currency, and the developments reshaping buyer requirements, including sovereign delivery, in-kingdom capacity expansion, hybrid multicloud adoption, and resilience.

"Saudi Arabia's public cloud market grew 31.5% in 2025, lifting nearly every vendor at once, which masks how selectively buyers are choosing. Sovereign delivery, local partner depth, and industry-specific AI capability increasingly decide who wins the work. Providers that treat these as core to the offering rather than as regional adaptations will hold the ground they gain." — Jebin George, senior research manager, Cloud and Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC

IDC MarketScape: 中国混合云AI智算平台2026年厂商评估

Rachel Liu, Lee Zhang — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究聚焦于中国市场中具备完整混合云AI智算平台产品和解决方案的技术提供商，对入选技术提供商的能力和战略进行综合评估。其中，能力评估指标涵盖产品功能与服务、产品组合优势、客户服务、定价模型等方面；战略评估指标涵盖产品战略、增长情况、研发战略、交付战略、创新性等方面。各评估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。IDC分析师通过对各个厂商和众多最终用户的深入访谈，综合分析并确定了各厂商在IDC MarketScape中的相对位置，并分析了厂商的能力和战略，为政企客户选择混合云基础架构提供商提供参考。

IDC云基础架构高级研究经理张犁表示：“在目前的中国市场，混合云AI智算平台已经成为企业核心的AI基础设施。为了应对GenAI应用需求的爆发式增长，各行业企业都在不断增加在混合云AI业务方面的技术投入，同时持续优化混合云AI算力管理和AI应用支撑技术能力。与此同时，混合云AI智算平台提供商在对企业进行深度服务过程中意识到，AI算力和应用决定了混合云基础架构部署形态的演进，解决方案需要针对业务场景进行灵活调整。”

Oracle Commits to a Multi-Silicon Cloud at AI World 2026

Rob Tiffany — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Oracle's announcements at AI World 2026 signal that OCI intends to compete as a multi-silicon AI cloud, letting buyers match training, inference, and agent-orchestration workloads to different chips without changing cloud providers. OCI currently offers multiple generations of NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, CPUs from NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Arm, while Google TPUs and Cerebras systems arrive in 2027 and SambaNova offerings have yet to launch.

From Vision to Product: Cloudera’s Anywhere Cloud and Private AI Factory at EVOLVE26

Carlos Gonzalez, Marlanna Harrington — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Cloudera, a data and AI platform vendor that serves large, often regulated enterprises, used EVOLVE26 in New York to show how it plans to help customers run AI where their data already lives. Its new Anywhere Cloud, planned for general availability on November 30, delivers one cloud-like platform across public clouds, corporate datacenters, sovereign clouds, and the edge. It is paired with ready-made AI blueprints and a private AI offering built with partners including Mistral AI, NVIDIA, and VAST Data. IDC sees the direction matching a real market shift: enterprises increasingly need AI that respects data sovereignty, cost, and governance constraints, and most operate across more than one environment. The open question is delivery. Cloudera must show it can keep installation, upgrades, security, and governance consistent in every environment as customers move from pilots to production.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Container Data and Infrastructure Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Johnny Yu — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study is an evaluation of prominent container data and infrastructure management software vendors on a worldwide basis. While it offers details on each vendor's capabilities and offerings, it is not meant to be a buyer's guide. Instead, this evaluation is intended to help IT leaders differentiate between vendor solutions and narrow down candidates that align with their stage of Kubernetes adoption, level of Kubernetes expertise, agentic AI workload deployment, and long-term goals of their application infrastructure.

"Many organizations are accelerating their agentic AI deployment, which is also driving them toward container and Kubernetes infrastructure," said Johnny Yu, research manager, Infrastructure Software Platforms at IDC. "The result is greater demand for container data and infrastructure management software to not only protect Kubernetes application data but also bring in elements of AI data governance and control."

IDC Survey: AI Tech Trends Survey 2026, Canada — AI Factories and Neoclouds

Nigel Wallis — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey draws on IDC's 2026 AI Tech Trends Survey, a worldwide survey of 2,453 organizations fielded in July 2026, and isolates the Canadian subsample of 150 respondents for comparison against the worldwide total on every question in scope. Each chart in this presentation presents the Canadian result alongside the worldwide figure so readers can see where Canada is tracking the world and where it is diverging.

The analysis covers:

AI factory adoption stage: how far Canadian organizations have progressed from no significant AI factory activity to full production deployment
AI factory deployment model: hybrid, on-premises, and cloud infrastructure choices for AI factories
AI factory provider selection: which vendors Canadian organizations name as their leading AI factory provider
Neocloud adoption funnel: current use, near-term plans, and evaluation activity for neocloud (specialized cloud, GPU-as-a-service) providers
Neocloud drivers: what pulls Canadian organizations toward neocloud services relative to the worldwide sample
Neocloud provider requirements: how much a bundled, unified AI platform matters alongside raw GPU capacity
Neocloud workload commitment: how much AI workload Canadian organizations plan to run on neocloud capacity by the end of 2026

AI factory adoption in Canada is entering a phase where scaling from limited production to broad deployment matters more than the initial evaluation decision. Canadian organizations already diverge from the worldwide pattern on deployment model and provider selection, favoring hybrid infrastructure and naming NVIDIA as their lead provider more often.

Neocloud demand follows the same split. Canadian organizations cite lower cost more often than the world does, rate a unified AI platform as important at the same rate (about 7 in 10), and plan to keep their 2026 neocloud workloads at modest levels.

Oracle AI World 2026: Coding Agents and Database-Level Governance Extend Oracle's Developer Reach

Adam Reeves — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Oracle used AI World 2026, October 26–27, to introduce Oracle App Composer, the Deep Trust AI Architecture, updates to OCI Enterprise AI, and Snowflake as a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), extending Oracle's platform for coding agents and agent-built applications. Oracle positions the database as the point where agent policy is enforced, though availability and pricing remain open for several offerings.

SAP TechEd 2026: Managed Platform as a Service and Metered Context for Agentic Developers

Adam Reeves — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

At SAP TechEd on October 27, 2026, the company expanded SAP Business AI Platform, its platform as a service (PaaS) for building, contextualizing, and governing agentic solutions, with updates to Joule Work, Joule Studio, SAP Knowledge Graph, agent governance, and detailed action-based pricing for agentic consumption. Taken together, the announcements show SAP presenting a managed, Joule-fronted platform that absorbs the integration work of a large portfolio while metering access to its business context.