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Market Forecast: Saudi Arabia Public Cloud Services Forecast, 2026–2030

Jebin George — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for the Saudi Arabia public cloud services market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

This study sizes the market across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and it examines how in-kingdom hyperscaler capacity, national AI programs, and Vision 2030 execution will shape the demand through 2030. The study identifies the point at which PaaS becomes the kingdom's largest segment, quantifies the resulting shift in segment mix, and assesses the talent, cost, and legacy constraints that temper growth. It concludes with recommendations for cloud providers, platform vendors, and application suppliers.

"Saudi Arabia's public cloud market will more than triple by 2030, and it is already outpacing where we expected it to be a year ago. PaaS is the engine, poised to become the kingdom's largest cloud segment by 2028 as AI platforms and data services move to the center of demand. The opportunity for providers is shifting from migrating workloads to hosting the AI systems that will run a diversifying economy." — Jebin George, senior research manager, IDC.

IDC Market Glance: Managed Cloud Services, 4Q26

David Tapper — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC Market Glance is a taxonomy document that visually depicts a concise, current-state view of the worldwide managed cloud services market.

It provides an overview of the managed cloud services vendor landscape, segmented into three primary markets, including managed public cloud, managed private cloud, and managed hybrid cloud, based on IDC’s Worldwide Managed Cloud Services Taxonomy. Managed cloud services is a competitive services market increasingly shaped by rising governance requirements, agentic AI adoption, and a need to reinvent business models. Vendor placement reflects each provider’s validated fit against each segment’s specific definition at the time of publication and is intended to provide technology suppliers with a concise view of the competitive landscape.

IDC Market Glance: Public Cloud PaaS, 4Q26

Adam Reeves — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance is a taxonomy document intended to visually depict a concise current-state view of the IDC Market Glance: Cloud platform as a service. The public cloud PaaS market continues to evolve around agentic AI, with AI-native platforms increasingly absorbing functions that previously defined separate segments, such as application development, data management, and AI platforms.

Market Forecast: United Arab Emirates Public Cloud Services Forecast, 2026–2030

Jebin George — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation presents the 2026–2030 forecast for the UAE public cloud services market. It analyzes growth across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, showing how the shift toward AI platforms and agentic AI is changing where cloud spending goes. The presentation also examines the drivers, inhibitors, and market developments shaping the outlook, including sovereignty, AI capacity, and regional instability, and it provides guidance for technology suppliers.

"The UAE public cloud market will nearly triple by 2030, but the bigger shift is in where the money goes. As enterprises move from renting capacity to building and running AI applications, platform services become the market's largest segment by 2029, with infrastructure growing alongside them as the foundation. Sovereignty and resilience will decide which providers capture that growth."— Jebin George, senior research manager, Cloud and Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC

The AI Software Factory: What Application Platforms Must Deliver to Build, Deploy, and Govern AI Applications and Agents

Matthew Flug — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective examines what application platforms must deliver to build, deploy, run, and govern AI applications and agents. It identifies which platform capabilities carry over from conventional applications, which ones AI extends, and which ones are new across the three stages of the application life cycle: build; deploy and run; and manage, operate, and govern. The document positions the AI software factory as the layer that turns AI factory capacity into applications and agents running in production.

"AI has not changed what application platforms are for. They still exist to help teams build better applications faster. AI has changed how much work occurs after code is written, including evaluating nondeterministic outputs and governing what agents can do and on whose behalf. Vendors that compete on how quickly customers can build an agent, rather than how safely they can run one, will struggle to win production AI workloads," said Matthew Flug, research manager, Intelligent Application Modernization and Deployment Platforms, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Telecom Cloud Service Providers 2026 Vendor Assessment

Peter Chahal, Ahmad Latif Ali, Ajeet Das, Nikhil Batra — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses the capabilities and strategies of network equipment vendors and cloud service providers delivering infrastructure and managed cloud services for telecom network workloads. The evaluation focuses on providers' ability to support key network domains, including radio access networks (RANs), cloud-native 5G core, and operations support systems (OSSs), while meeting the performance, scalability, resilience, security, and latency requirements of carrier-grade environments. Emphasis is placed on support for distributed network architectures across operator datacenters, edge locations, private clouds, and public cloud infrastructure through hybrid and multicloud deployment models.

This IDC study evaluates providers on their current capabilities in cloud infrastructure, automation, orchestration, observability, life-cycle management, and multivendor network support, as well as their strategies for enabling telecom providers' long-term network transformation objectives. The assessment considers each provider's vision, road map, ecosystem partnerships, investments, and execution in helping telecom providers transition toward increasingly software-defined, automated, and cloud-native network architectures.

"The story of this market is not who claims to do the most; it's who can prove they've already done it. Nearly every vendor in this assessment describes the same cloud-native, AI-automated vision for RAN, core, and OSS, but the gap between this vision and the disclosed production evidence is where the real competitive separation lies," said Peter Chahal, research director, Worldwide Telecommunications Services and Strategies at IDC. "Telcos evaluating this space should treat the specificity of a vendor's answer, a named customer, a measured outcome, or a documented region as more predictive of future success than the ambition of its road map. In telecom cloud, evidence is quickly becoming the only currency that matters."

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Public Cloud IaaS Networking, 2026

Taranvir Singh — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the public cloud IaaS networking market focusing on cloud connectivity, cloud WAN, ADCaaS, and application networking as the critical network infrastructure pillars.

It includes an overview of the current market landscape, technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC’s advice for technology suppliers in this market. 

“As AI workloads distribute across public cloud, colocation, neocloud, and on-premises environments, organizations will need to design and operate networks that connect these locations with the performance, security, and governance that AI workloads demand. Public cloud providers are building their IaaS networking portfolios to deliver this connectivity and required networking capabilities, giving enterprises the reach, programmability, and automation they cannot practically build and run themselves,” said Taranvir Singh, research manager, Network Infrastructure and Services, IDC.

市场份额：中国工业云IaaS+PaaS市场份额，2025：提速换挡，智算驱动

Yanze Du — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究分析了2025年中国工业云基础设施即服务（IaaS）与平台即服务（PaaS）市场市场中领先供应商的市场份额。

报告涵盖市场的整体规模、厂商份额与竞争格局，发布总市场头部厂商收入与份额，并同步测算公有云、私有云两个部署模式子市场，整体行业结构以及资源能源行业市场空间及厂商份额。

IDC中国制造业行业研究高级研究经理杜雁泽表示：“2025年中国工业云IaaS+PaaS市场规模达746.7亿元，同比增长18.2%，较2024年明显提速。增长引擎已从‘资源上云’切换为‘智算上云’：AI算力消费推动公有云增速（+25.5%）显著超过私有云（+13.9%），公有云占比三年来首次回升至39.0%。格局呈现‘位次稳、结构变’，但内部分化剧烈——领先厂商依托AI算力快速增长，传统资源池厂商增速普遍低于大盘。”

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Private Cloud Infrastructure Software Platforms 2026–2027 Vendor Assessment

Shahin Hashim, Phil Goodwin — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents a worldwide assessment of private cloud infrastructure software platform providers through the IDC MarketScape model. It evaluates thirteen vendors (Broadcom, Canonical, HPE, IDT System, Mirantis, Nutanix, OpenNebula, Platform9, Red Hat, Sangfor, SUSE, VergeIO, and Virtuozzo) against a structured framework of capability and strategy criteria, drawing on vendor briefings, product documentation, a customer reference survey, and independent IDC research. Private cloud infrastructure software has moved from a stable, mature layer of the datacenter into one of the most actively contested decisions in enterprise IT. Three converging pressures are reshaping it: the disruption of the incumbent virtualization stack, the arrival of AI as an on-premises and increasingly sovereign workload, and a sharpened focus on data sovereignty and cost. The market is now bifurcated between broad full-stack providers and focused challenger platforms, and the historical line between virtualization and container platforms is blurring. This study is intended to help infrastructure and platform engineering leaders match a platform to their own workload profile, migration realities, sovereignty and certification requirements, and multiyear modernization plans, rather than default to a reflexive renewal.

"Private cloud infrastructure software is no longer a settled market. A forced migration away from the dominant incumbent, the pull of on-premises and sovereign AI, and renewed pressure on cost and control have turned the platform choice into a multiyear strategic decision, and buyers are rewarding vendors that deliver on their commitments over those with the longest feature list," says Shahin Hashim, associate research director, Storage and Data Management, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC.

Omnissa ONE AMER 2026: Redefining IT Operations with Elara and Autonomous Workspaces

Filippo Vanara — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note analyzes the Omnissa ONE AMER 2026 event held September 28–30, 2026, in Orlando, Florida. It highlights Omnissa's latest announcements, capabilities, strategies, and trends regarding the virtual client computing (VCC), DaaS, DEX, and EUC markets.

"Omnissa has charted a compelling and necessary path forward. By combining architectural modernization via Elara with practical, AI-driven automation via the Autonomous Workspace vision, Omnissa moves from a reactive administrative management suite to a proactive platform capable of handling modern operational scale," said Filippo Vanara, research manager, Worldwide Enterprise Client Computing Platforms at IDC.