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Akamai Acquires Fermyon to Enhance Edge Compute and Inference Capabilities

Matthew Flug — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

In March 2025 Akamai and Fermyon announced a partnership to deliver serverless applications at the edge securely and with low latency via Fermyon's Wasm Functions and now, Akamai is acquiring Fermyon. The acquisition follows Akamai's launch of its Akamai Inference Cloud, positioning Fermyon’s WebAssembly-enabled capabilities to further distinguish Akamai’s inference offerings through WebAssembly’s speed and security benefits.

EMEA Enterprises Consider NaaS to Keep Pace with New Technology While Controlling Cost

Len Padilla — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents results from IDC's 2025 EMEA Enterprise Networking and Life-Cycle Services Survey. Data and analysis highlight how and why EMEA enterprises are considering network-as-a-service (NaaS) offerings.

“EMEA enterprises are increasingly turning to network as a service to address critical challenges around skills shortages, resource constraints, and the need for advanced networking capabilities. By leveraging NaaS, organizations can accelerate technology adoption, enhance security and performance, and refocus internal teams on strategic business priorities. As service providers continue to mature their offerings and address integration and control concerns, NaaS is poised to become a key enabler for digital transformation and operational agility across the region,” said Len Padilla, senior research director, EMEA Networking and Life-Cycle Services, IDC.

HPE Discover Barcelona 2025: Accelerating the Shift to AI-Ready Infrastructure

Matthew Eastwood, Chris Barnard, Chris Drake, Filippo Vanara — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

HPE FY 4Q25 and FY25 Results: Juniper Integration and AI Momentum Lift Company

Matthew Eastwood, Crawford Del Prete — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

How Are Organizations Prioritizing Data Readiness Projects for AI?

Hayley Sutherland — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key findings from IDC’s 4Q25 U.S. IT QuickPoll — Agentic AI Survey (November 2025, n = 101). The purpose of this survey, designed by IDC’s Worldwide AI, Automation, Data, and Analytics Software research team, was to collect timely insights about key trends in agentic AI and related data topics in the enterprise. This survey of 101 IT respondents in North America was conducted in November 2025, while IT leaders were reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead to 2026 plans for AI. This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how organizations are currently prioritizing their projects related to AI data readiness and the implications for conversational AI vendors.

IDC Announces India Winners of the 2025 Future Enterprise Awards

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

SINGAPORE, 08 December 2025 – International Data Corporation (IDC ) today announced the winners of the IDC Future Enterprise Awards (FEA) 2025 for India. This year’s winners highlight how Indian enterprises are operationalizing AI, data, automation, and digital platforms to accelerate innovation, scale operational resilience, and build inclusive, sustainable growth across industries — from banking and logistics to manufacturing, agriculture, and real estate.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Salesforce Implementation Services 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment

Jason Bremner, Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the worldwide Salesforce implementation services market through the IDC MarketScape model. This IDC study covers a variety of vendors, including global systems integrators and boutique firms. The research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of many characteristics that buyers consider when selecting a Salesforce implementation services provider. This evaluation is based on a comprehensive set of parameters important to meeting the customer's current and future needs for Salesforce projects. This IDC MarketScape covers 28 vendors participating in the worldwide Salesforce services market. Of the vendors, 23 were assessed via the complete IDC MarketScape methodology, while 5 were partially assessed.

"The Salesforce platform continues to evolve, adding innovative capabilities such as industry clouds and Agentforce solutions. Organizations are exploring new implementations and considering system upgrades to make the most of these technologies," says Jason Bremner, research vice president, IT Consulting and Systems Integration Services at IDC. "With Salesforce, organizations seek to improve operational efficiency and profitability by actively tracking a project's ability to meet objectives and timelines across engagements."

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Customer Analytics Applications, 2H25

Tapan Patel — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of customer analytics applications in 2H25, featuring products from Adobe, Alteryx, Contentsquare, HCL Software, Microsoft, Oracle, Quantexa, SAP, SAS, and TCS. The status of each functionality is categorized as fully supported, partially supported, partner provided, road map, or not supported, aiding technology purchasers in quickly identifying which vendors align with their changing requirements.

Unlocking Business Outcomes Through Trusted Data in Hybrid Environments

Francesca Ciarletta — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights the importance of a solid data foundation in enabling resilience and innovation. It examines the main challenges preventing organizations from achieving a unified data layer and demonstrates how orchestration, observability, and AI can support modern data architecture. This presentation was delivered at the IDC Executive Lunch held in Milan on November 12, 2025.

Content Creator Sentiments Toward AI, 2025

Greg Ireland — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines selected results from IDC's 2025 GenAI for Content Creators and Consumers Survey, fielded in July 2025. Results and analysis focus on consumer content creators and their use of and sentiments toward AI. Included are survey results focused on frequency of AI use in the content creation process, key benefits for creators of using AI, importance of AI, and how AI use is expected to change in the year ahead. Results are segmented for casual creators and creators who earn income through their content.

"It should be no surprise that content creators have embraced the use of AI as part of the creative process," said Greg Ireland, senior director, IDC's Consumer Markets and GenAI for Content Creators and Consumer research. "Survey results show strong creator appetite for AI apps that allow creators to save time, enhance creativity, generate more content, and compensate for limited creative skills."