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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.

Agentic AI Implications for Enterprise IaaS Network Services Strategies

Taranvir Singh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective highlights how Agentic AI is transforming enterprise networking and shifting the role of the network from simple data transport to an intelligent, policy-driven fabric. As AI agents drive dynamic, distributed workflows, enterprises are consolidating around IaaS network services by cloud service providers for high-performance connectivity, efficient application networking, and integrated security and governance. Success in agentic AI deployments depends on programmatic networking architectures, agent-aware functionalities, and strategic partnerships with providers offering specialized AI networking expertise and production-ready solutions.

“Networking is foundational to agentic AI. Its pervasive presence across AI agent interactions positions it as an important enabler of end-to-end connectivity, security, and governance,” says Taranvir Singh, research manager, Cloud Networking Services, IDC. “For AI agents to operate at production scale, the network must function as an intelligent policy fabric, not just an underlying transport layer.”

IDC Survey: European Cloud Print Management Adoption

Jacqui Hendriks — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents findings from IDC's European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in April 2026 among 2,057 respondents across Europe. The document explores the current state of cloud-based device and print management adoption, highlighting the continued dominance of hybrid deployment models, the barriers, and the factors driving some organizations to return to on-premises infrastructure.

The survey also examines the role of changing business requirements, unmet expectations, and security concerns in cloud print deployment outcomes, with data available for analysis by country/region, company size, and industry.

IDC's Worldwide Cloud Platform as a Service Taxonomy, 2026

Adam Reeves — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's cloud platform as a service market. IDC defines the cloud PaaS market as 100% of the revenue of IT capability in the application development and deployment (AD&D) primary software market when it is composed and delivered as a cloud service.

PaaS is segmented into seven secondary markets including application platforms, data management, artificial intelligence core, application development, and integration and orchestration.

These secondary markets are combinations of existing AD&D functional software markets that reflect the most prevalent combinations of integrated functionality based on customer use cases and the most typical supplier offerings, in addition to other market factors such as the primary problem being solved by the service.

"The cloud platform as a service taxonomy describes the fast-growing PaaS, which grew by greater than 32% to reach $162 billion in revenue in 2024," said Adam Reeves, research director, Platform as a Service for Developers of Modern and Edge Applications at IDC. "The taxonomy defines the seven secondary markets that drive market growth, including artificial intelligence, application development, and data management."

AI and Cloud Connectivity — Impact on Networking and Connectivity Investments

Paul Hughes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how the rapid growth of AI workloads is reshaping enterprise network infrastructure requirements and connectivity investment priorities. Drawing on IDC's 2025 Enterprise Connectivity Infrastructure and Services Survey, the report shows that bandwidth demand is accelerating across all industries, AI traffic is on track to overtake traditional network traffic by 2027–2028, and enterprises are already increasing investment in SD-WAN, network-as-a-service (NaaS), edge computing, and cloud interconnect. This document also identifies vertical-specific connectivity requirements across financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and the public sector, and provides actionable guidance for technology buyers and suppliers navigating the AI connectivity imperative.

"AI does not exist without connectivity. As enterprises accelerate their AI road maps, the network is no longer an infrastructure but is considered a strategic asset. Enterprises that align their connectivity strategy with their AI ambitions today will be the ones that deliver on the promise of AI tomorrow," says Paul Hughes, research director, IDC.

AWS Summit London: Focus on Agentic AI Acceleration, Sovereign Cloud, and Application Modernization

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the key announcements from the AWS Summit London 2026, where AWS presented a unified strategy linking agentic AI acceleration, full-stack sovereignty, and application modernization to Europe’s core adoption barriers. The document assesses AWS’ vertically integrated AI stack from Trainium silicon through Bedrock AgentCore to consumption-layer tools, the general availability of the European Sovereign Cloud as a separate partition under German legal entities, and the repositioning of AWS Transform as an agentic modernization factory. It evaluates the implications for European enterprises navigating skills shortages, absent AI budgets, and compliance-heavy spending, and provides actionable recommendations across AI go to market, sovereign cloud execution, modernization strategy, workforce readiness, and data maturity.

“AWS’ diagnosis of the European market is well calibrated: The providers that win the next adoption wave will be the ones that solve for value capture, not access. The shift from experimentation to embedded, governed AI at scale is the defining challenge, and AWS’ composability and ecosystem reach give the company a credible path to unlock that transition.” — Carla Arend, AVP, Cloud Infrastructure and Services, IDC.

IDC Market Glance: Agentic AI Tools and Technologies for National Civilian Government, 2Q26

Massimiliano Claps — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance illustrates how to achieve agentic AI deployments and outcomes at scale. Governments need to combine solutions and expertise provided by multiple vendors, such as global platform vendors (e.g., AWS, Microsoft, Google, Palantir, Salesforce, and ServiceNow), AI model providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta), government specialty solution vendors (e.g., LexisNexis and Fast Enterprise), systems integrators (e.g., Booz Allen, Leidos, Accenture, SAIC, GDIT, and IBM), and agentic AI orchestration and governance specialists (e.g., Langchain and Credo AI).

IDC Survey Spotlight: Is A Dedicated (Private) Cloud the Best Option for a Sovereign Cloud?

Rahiel Nasir — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines where organizations primarily store data classified as high or medium sensitivity today and where they expect to store it over the next 12 months, including the role of dedicated infrastructure, shared-tenancy offerings, and sovereign cloud in sensitive data placement strategies. The data is derived from IDC's Digital Sovereignty Survey 2025, conducted in July 2025 among 950 organizations globally.

Navigating the Specialized Cloud Services (Neocloud) Decision: Strategic Guidance for Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Christopher Tozzi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective provides guidance on navigating the specialized cloud services (aka neoclouds) decision. Specialized cloud services offer a significant opportunity to deploy AI workloads at a cost that is generally lower than the price of equivalent infrastructure in other types of clouds. But it’s critical for enterprises to weigh more than cost alone when considering specialized cloud services. Other essential factors include the location of specialized cloud services datacenters (which bears implications for compliance and performance), the importance of operating AI and non-AI workloads in the same environment, and uncertainty about the medium- and long-term status of some specialized cloud services platforms. Strategic decisions about whether and how to use neoclouds should reflect all of these considerations.

“There is little disputing that specialized cloud services offer attractive pricing for AI infrastructure,” says Chris Tozzi, adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP). “But determining whether they are the best overall fit for enterprise AI deployment requires thinking about the big picture, not just pricing.”

市场份额：中国人工智能加速卡市场份额，2025

Yunlong Du — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究分析了2025年中国人工智能加速卡市场中领先供应商的市场份额。2025年加速卡市场按出货量计算同比增长47%。目前，GPU加速卡仍占据主导地位，市场份额达66%。非GPU加速卡的增长同样不容小觑，其占比已从2024年的28%升至34%，预计未来这一份额还将持续扩大。

IDC中国AI基础架构市场分析师杜昀龙表示：“当前AI芯片市场进入推理算力主导阶段，行业规模稳步扩容。训练芯片依旧高度集中，推理端专用芯片快速崛起，市场格局呈现一超多元态势。技术层面，Chiplet先进封装、HBM存储、液冷散热成为核心发展方向，ARM 架构占比持续攀升。中国本土芯片企业依托推理、中端场景加速实现替代突破，但仍受制程、软件生态制约。供应链供需偏紧叠加地缘因素带来不确定性，行业竞争加剧，后续算力商业化落地、技术迭代与本土化进程将成为市场核心看点。”