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Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Datacenter Deployment Model and Spend Forecast, 2025–2029

Mikhail Jaura, Dr. William Lee — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

In summary, the APEJ datacenter market is entering a period of exponential and transformative growth, driven by cloud, AI, and digital services. Although the growth prospects are exceptional, the sector faces mounting pressure to address energy consumption and carbon emissions. Technology suppliers must prioritize sustainability, invest in next-generation infrastructure, and collaborate with ecosystem partners to capture emerging opportunities. The ability to deliver scalable, energy-efficient solutions that meet evolving customer and regulatory demands will be the key to success in this dynamic and rapidly expanding market.

"The APEJ datacenter market is rapidly evolving with cloud and AI driving growth, but rising energy use and emissions demand urgent action. Technology suppliers must focus on sustainability and scalable, efficient infrastructure to stay competitive," says Mikhail Jaura, senior research analyst on cloud and datacenter services, IDC Asia/Pacific.

Dell Technologies Summit 2025: Accelerating Enterprise AI Adoption Requires Professional Services

Leslie Rosenberg — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note highlights Dell's AI strategy by drawing on insights from the recent Dell Analyst Conference, held October 13–15, 2025, in Austin, Texas.

Dell Technologies is accelerating enterprise AI adoption by integrating professional services with its AI Factory. At the 2025 Summit, Dell emphasized its strategy to help customers overcome AI implementation barriers, particularly in data management and infrastructure. By offering life-cycle services and turnkey solutions, Dell enables organizations to efficiently deploy, manage, and scale AI workloads, positioning itself as a key partner for enterprises navigating AI transformation.

"Accelerating enterprise AI adoption isn't just about the underlying infrastructure — it requires a more comprehensive approach, one that involves mastering data, platforms, and applications, as well as people, processes, and governance — and more," states Leslie Rosenberg, research VP, IDC's Network Life-Cycle and Infrastructure Services. "Dell is continuously investing in its services portfolio to ensure that customers are moving forward with their AI initiatives successfully."

Does the Surge in MEC Adoption Provide Momentum for AI Inferencing at Network Edge and Monetization Opportunities for Service Providers?

Ajeet Das — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the growing need for running AI inferencing workload at the network edge to enhance automation, improve security, and speed up processing. It contains data from IDC's May 2025 Telecom DX Survey, based on the response from 130 comms SPs worldwide.

"The true payoff for 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) is now clearly rooted in the rise of edge AI inferencing. The ability to deploy high-performance AI models for use cases like smart manufacturing and autonomous systems directly onto the edge —billed as a managed service or a dedicated 5G slice — is the engine that will drive the edge computing market and create opportunities for service providers to monetize their edge infrastructure," Ajeet Das, research director, Telecom Network Infrastructure, IDC.

Epson Looks to Leasing Solutions to Drive Its Circular Economy Strategy

Phil Sargeant, Sharon McNee — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes Epson's announcement of a European partnership with BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions as part of its circular economy strategy to deliver refurbished devices.

Equinix Brings AI-Ready, Sustainability-First Digital Infrastructure Service Model to the Philippines

Melvie Espejo — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses Equinix’s entry into its newest market in Asia/Pacific, the Philippines, and its implications for AI-ready, sustainability-first digital infrastructure strategies and digital transformation (DX) plans of organizations. This report contains highlights during the Equinix inauguration, including the introduction of Equinix Fabric, Fabric Cloud Router, and Equinix Internet Access to the Philippine market, and the acquisition of Equinix of three datacenters in the country.

“The Philippines is at a second wave of DX, an era of rapid digitalization that focuses on expansion, resiliency, and security. Equinix’s foundational infrastructure capabilities, alongside its ability to adjust connections depending on workloads within minutes rather than days or weeks, are aligned with user requirements in this transformative environment,” says Melvie Espejo, research director, Sustainable Strategies and Technologies, IDC Asia/Pacific.

How Do IT Budgets Allocated to Data Protection Infrastructure Differ for Organizations Using PBBAs to Back Up the Majority of Their Jobs?

Ryan Caskey — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the latest findings from IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey – Cloud Data Logistics and Protection, in which individuals are asked to assess data infrastructure management and data protection strategies within their organization. The focus of this analysis is on the use of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs).

Market Analysis Perspective: UAE Hosting Services, 2025

Derrick Chikanga — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides an overview of the UAE hosting services market and evaluates the impact of current and future enterprise demand trends. The report provides insights into trends affecting service adoption, the competitive landscape, and customer needs. It offers guidance for hosting service providers that seek to address customer needs and gain a competitive edge.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Computing Systems, Platforms, and Technologies, 2025

Kuba Stolarski — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide computing systems, platforms, and technologies market for 2025. 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.

Server CPU Trends in EMEA Infrastructure, 2024

Andrew Buss — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation analyzes trends across server CPU types in EMEA infrastructure in 2024. It looks in more detail at the shipments and revenues of servers by CPU type, processor vendor, server socket counts, and operating system in various market segments. It also analyzes overall CPU vendor revenue and market share changes from 2014 through to 2024. This analysis is based on IDC's EMEA Server Tracker data from November 2025.

Worldwide 3Q25 HDD Shipment Results and Four-Quarter Forecast Update

Edward Burns — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Pivot Table provides worldwide unit and petabyte shipments and revenue for the hard disk drive (HDD) industry for the third calendar quarter of 2025, including supplier unit shipment and revenue market share. Also provided are HDD-equipped personal and entry-level storage shipment estimates by HDD form factor for the third calendar quarter of 2025. This IDC Pivot Table provides clients with worldwide HDD market data for market analysis and business planning and to assist in identifying the industry and market dynamics, trends, and opportunities for HDDs.