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AWS Supercharges AI Ambitions with Launch of EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers, Powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell

Dave McCarthy — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

On July 9, 2025, AWS announced the general availability of its new, top-tier GPU instances, the Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers. These instances are powered by NVIDIA's recently unveiled and highly anticipated GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips, representing a significant leap in computational power tailored for the most demanding AI and HPC workloads. The P6e-GB200 UltraServers are designed to tackle the training and inference of frontier AI models, including those with trillion-plus parameter counts.

A key innovation accompanying this launch is a custom-designed liquid cooling solution, the In-Row Heat Exchanger (IRHX), engineered by AWS to manage the significant thermal output of these powerful new chips, signaling a major investment in next-generation datacenter infrastructure. The initial rollout is available via EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML in the Dallas, Texas, Local Zone, with broader availability expected to follow.

Digital Twins and Simulation Innovation at Siemens Realize LIVE Americas 2025

Carlos Gonzalez, John Snow, Aly Pinder, Jonathan Lang — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note highlights the company announcements and road map showcased by Siemens at its Realize LIVE Americas event, which took place from June 1 to 4, 2025, in Detroit.

Siemens showcased its advancements in digital twins and simulation at Realize LIVE Americas 2025, emphasizing AI-driven digital transformation. The acquisition of Altair enhances Siemens' simulation capabilities, integrating AI, data analytics, and HPC into the Siemens Xcelerator platform for improved engineering and operations. Siemens aims to address data challenges with digital threads and expand its SaaS offerings, focusing on applications within the Siemens Xcelerator platform. The strategy includes leveraging AI across product lines to optimize processes and enhance service life-cycle management, driving efficiency and innovation in manufacturing.

HPE Closes Juniper Networks Acquisition: IDC Analysis of HPE Becoming a Networking Heavyweight in the AI Era

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

IDC Report: Indonesia's Security Software Market Grows 16.1% Year-on-Year in the Second Semester of 2024

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

JAKARTA, 11 July 2025 – The Security software market in Indonesia grew by 16.1% year-over-year (YoY) in 2H24, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker . Growth was driven by continued modernization efforts as organizations adapt to hybrid infrastructure, expanding digital risk exposure, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Investment remained strong across network security, identity and access management, and security analytics—highlighting enterprise priorities to protect infrastructure, enforce access control, and improve threat visibility amid rising regulatory pressure.

IDC Supply Chain Survey, 2025: Manufacturing Industry Findings

Eric Thompson — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey provides insight into the supply chain challenges and opportunities manufacturing companies are facing and their current priorities, the drivers of change in the strategic focus of their supply chains, the impact of ongoing disruptions (protectionism/tariffs, economic uncertainty), and the use of modern digital technologies, particularly AI.

Industry Market Trends: Asia/Pacific Oil & Gas, 2025

Gaurav Verma — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides the IDC Asia/Pacific (APAC) Oil & Gas (O&G) Market Trends 2025 Report, which offers technology suppliers with an overview of the key business trends shaping the APAC O&G value chain in 2025. The report offers a foundation of industry knowledge to:

Develop a compelling narrative that resonates with APAC O&G organizations
Align product and service offering with APAC O&G organizations' priorities
Show O&G clients how technology implementation contributes toward the achievement of their goals
Design short-, medium-, and long-term approaches to working with APAC O&G clients

Technology provider executives in marketing, sales, product strategy, market intelligence, and channel management can leverage insights from this report as a starting point to organize their activities.

"APAC oil & gas companies seem to be focusing on the cost and operational efficiency of the core business, but that doesn't mean the energy transition is on hold. While their pace may vary, there's clear momentum toward modernizing data and infrastructure, driven by the belief that unlocking the full value of AI-based transformation is key to advancing their operational and sustainability goals," said Gaurav Verma, research director, IDC Energy Insights.

Retail Reimagined: Key Insights and Emerging Priorities from Shoptalk Europe 2025

Cristiano Quattrini, Ornella Urso, Filippo Battaini — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective provides strategic insights into the evolving priorities of the retail sector, as observed during Shoptalk Europe 2025. Held in Barcelona, the event reflected a shift in industry momentum from inspiration to execution. Key themes included the rapid operationalization of generative AI across the retail value chain, the mainstreaming of unified commerce architectures, and the transformation of physical stores into immersive brand destinations. Shoptalk 2025 also marked the coming of age for retail media networks, which are now seen as central to data monetization and supplier collaboration.

Through examples from brands and retailers, this report explores how retailers are investing in composable platforms, real-time data orchestration, and AI-powered personalization to drive measurable impact. technology vendors illustrated how solution ecosystems are maturing to support these shifts.

By analyzing the convergence of innovation and operational needs, this document offers a forward-looking view of how retailers can build resilience, agility, and relevance in a competitive and fast-changing market. It can serve as a guide for retail executives, technology providers, and ecosystem partners seeking to align with the next wave of intelligent, experience-led commerce.

"Shoptalk Europe 2025 showed that the future of retail is neither purely digital nor physical, it is intelligently connected. Retailers that orchestrate experiences, data, and commerce across touchpoints with agility and purpose will be best positioned to lead in the age of intelligent retail," said Cristiano Quattrini, senior associate advisor, IDC Retail Insights

Western Europe Document Imaging Scanner Market Share, 2024: Market Remains Substantial Driven by Ongoing Digitalization Efforts

Mitri Roufka — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Share examines the leading vendors in the document imaging scanner market in 2024.

"Document scanner unit shipments remained flat in Western Europe in 2024, demonstrating that scanning volumes in the office environment are still rising as companies continue to digitalize their paper-based processes in a more systematic way — these processes still account for somewhere between 40% and 50% of all office-related processes. These dedicated document scanners are still widely used by office end users for their high reliability, speed, and image quality," said Mitri Roufka, program director, Imaging Devices and Document Solutions, CEMA.

What We Saw: U.S. Consumer and Office Print Activity, 1Q25

Geoffrey Wilbur, Abhyuday Jampu — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective provides an update on office and consumer printer shipment activity in the first quarter of 2025 for the United States.

"Printer and MFP shipments underperformed expectations in 1Q25, as the implementation and threat of tariffs exacerbated economic uncertainty, suppressing spending as consumers and enterprise customers delayed some purchases while awaiting more economic certainty. Uncertainty around geopolitics and tariffs, in addition to growing concerns surrounding the possibility of a recession, is expected to cause continued volatility in the market through much of the rest of 2025." — Geoffrey Wilbur, research manager, Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions, IDC

Worldwide ODM Direct AI System Market Summary, 1Q25

Leon Kao — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides an update on AI system development and vendor performance, as well as an overview of the worldwide total and ODM Direct AI system market through 1Q25.