IDC
Tracing its origins to 1964, IDC emerges as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International Data Group (IDG, Inc.), a venerable name in the realms of tech media, data dissemination, and marketing services worldwide.
IDC's assortment of Insights lines of business fulfills a vital role by empowering both business leaders and IT luminaries, alongside their supplier counterparts, with indispensable technological insights. Comprising seasoned analysts wielding decades of industry acumen, the global research unit champions in-depth consultation and research services that address the multifaceted nexus of contemporary business and technology. The span of IDC Insights coverage is expansive, encompassing critical sectors such as Energy, Financial, Government, Health, Manufacturing, and Retail.
By meticulously distilling complex technological nuances into comprehensible insights, IDC propels the transformation of information into actionable wisdom, thus charting a course for informed decision-making across diverse sectors and industries.
5,776 Reports from IDC
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When Modernizing, Apply Architectural Principles to Build Resiliency for Critical Applications
This IDC Perspective provides a comprehensive road map for CIOs to architect resilient IT environments by aligning technology investments with business goals while balancing cost and performance. In the modern digital era, resilience has become a cornerstone of effective IT strategy. Organizations f ... Read More
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Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Market Shares, 2024: A Year of Massive Growth Spurred by Rising Cloud and OEM Demand
This IDC study reviews the worldwide HDD vendor market shares for 2024."Worldwide HDD industry revenue rebounded sharply in 2024 due to strong demand from cloud service providers coupled with growth from enterprise OEMs as inventories normalized from the elevated levels seen during the latter part o ... Read More
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Enabling Secure Mobility Through 5G Network Slices
This Market Note explores how 5G network slicing can help organizations protect their mobile workforce by isolating corporate traffic and embedding security directly into the network. "5G network slicing allows telcos to provide in-built security offerings to enterprises and transform mobile workfor ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan and China) Identity and Access Management Market Shares, 1H24: Identifying Growth and Disruption in the Identity Ecosystem
In 1H24, IAM solutions were no longer just a cybersecurity requirement but a core pillar of business transformation. Organizations are leveraging AI, automation, and identity risk analytics to enhance cybersecurity resilience, streamline access governance, and drive compliance alignment. As the IAM ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific Refocuses on Hybrid Architectures
This Market Perspective looks into the main drivers of hybrid cloud across the Asia/Pacific markets, and provides technology vendors with information on how best to position themselves favorably with technology buyers looking to either repatriate workloads from the public cloud or deploy new workloa ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Industry Clouds
This IDC PlanScape discusses how industry clouds offer a specialized model for deploying cloud services, integrating industry-specific functions, applications, and data into a single ecosystem. They provide significant benefits such as improved productivity, collaboration, and analytics — especially ... Read More
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KPMG Scouts a Middle Route to AI-Enabled Organizational Transformation Guidance
This IDC Market Note provides an analysis of executive presentations made at KPMG annual analyst summit at the KPMG Lakehouse in Lake Nona, Florida, February 11–13, 2025. The event presented KPMG’s latest digital-human integrated approaches to its consulting and client engagement practices and demon ... Read More
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Introducing IDC's Worldwide Education and EdTech Digital Strategies Program: A Fresh Global Analysis of Technology Investments and Outcomes in K–12 and Higher Education
This IDC Perspective provides an introduction to IDC's Worldwide Education and EdTech Digital Strategies Program. It offers a comprehensive analysis of technology investments and outcomes in K–12 and higher education. This document highlights how institutions are leveraging emerging technologies lik ... Read More
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Events in European Predictive, Advanced, and Visual Analytics and Machine Learning, 2H24
This IDC Market Note details key moves in the analytics and business intelligence market in Europe between June and December 2024, focusing on tech vendor investments, mergers, and acquisitions. It also includes market moves outside of these areas that illustrate broader market trends. ... Read More
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Planning for GenAI Inferencing Impact on Infrastructure Investment Decisions
This IDC Perspective explores the experience of organizations that have moved multiple GenAI POCs into production and provides infrastructure tech buyers with important insights about the cost, performance, and security trade-offs that must be balanced to optimize GenAI inferencing infrastructure in ... Read More
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Utilities Digital Strategies to Succeed in the Energy Transition
This IDC Perspective explores digital strategies for utilities to succeed in the energy transition. This document examines investments in three key areas: operations, clean energy, and customer engagement. The utilities industry will need to continue to invest in digital strategies to reduce their r ... Read More
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Introducing the National Security, Defense, and Intelligence Program: Focusing on Mission Technology Investments and Outcomes
This IDC Perspective details IDC‘s National Security, Defense, and Intelligence program that looks at six emerging technology areas especially relevant to the defense and national security mission: AI, data management and analytics, cybersecurity, mission-specific platforms, cloud, and professional ... Read More
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Worldwide AI-Enabled PC Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study discusses forecast data for the worldwide AI-enabled PC market from 2025 to 2029."The AI race is upon us," states Linn Huang, research vice president of Devices and Displays, IDC. "Silicon is in a race to build out installed base and software compatibility. OEMs are in a race to get t ... Read More
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Sharp Europe Connects the Dots to Accelerate IT Services Business Growth
This IDC Vendor Profile summarizes Sharp's European IT services journey to date and its plans for continued growth, strengthened by its acquisitions and partnerships, and in support of customers as they transition into digital businesses. ... Read More
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India Security Spending Forecast, 2025–2028
This IDC Forecast details the 2023–2028 market size and growth rate of India's security spending "The pressing need for India organizations to address the complex threat landscape and mitigate risk is expected to drive double-digit growth in India security spending over the next five years," says Ne ... Read More
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U.S. Printer and MFP Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study quantifies the U.S. single-function printer and multifunction peripheral market opportunities in detail, analyzing issues, trends, and product advances in these markets. Unit shipments, value of shipments, and average selling value (ASV) information is presented. Data for 2022–2024 is ... Read More
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Worldwide Cloud-Native XDR Forecast, 2025-2029: Finding the Meaning Beyond the Three-Letter Acronym
This IDC study presents forecast data for the worldwide cloud-native XDR market for the 2025–2029 period.“Businesses honestly do not care the name of the security stack that they buy,” notes Chris Kissel, vice president, IDC Security and Trust. “Companies only want solutions that cut down on the mea ... Read More
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Japan DevOps Software Forecast, 2025–2029
This IDC study summarizes the Japan development operations (DevOps) software market's performance in 2024, and market forecast for 2025–2029 based on information collected through interviews and surveys conducted up to the end of January 2025.In 2024, many companies budgeted for projects aimed at us ... Read More
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How AI Is Transforming IT Service Management
This IDC Perspective discusses how AI is transforming IT service management (ITSM). Available features incorporating AI in ITSM can offer faster and more consistent services, improve efficiency, and allow humans to focus on more sensitive or advanced work. These new technology developments are shift ... Read More
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IT Asset Disposition and Circular Economy Vendor Profile: Apto Solutions
This IDC Vendor Profile offers an overview of a key player in IT asset disposition and circular economy services. Apto Solutions specializes in serving the complex ITAD needs of large enterprises, including comprehensive asset recovery, secure data destruction, ESG stewardship, and fair market value ... Read More
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Fortifying the Healthcare Sector in Asia/Pacific: The Essential Role of AI in Cybersecurity
This IDC Perspective highlights the need for healthcare organizations in Asia/Pacific to secure themselves against highly complex, AI-enabled cyberattacks that target an ever-expanding attack surface. The report discusses regional healthcare organizations’ challenges and priorities, governments’ upd ... Read More
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EMEA Regulatory Pulse: Expected Impact and Complexity of Upcoming FSI Regulations
Many regulators and FSIs around the world keep a close eye on the EU's regulatory agenda as it increasingly influences global standards, provides valuable lessons, and sets regulatory super trends in ESG, operational resilience, consumer/investor protection, and AI and data. This report gives a comp ... Read More
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Cloud Development Environments: Mapping Key Approaches, Capabilities, and Vendors in 2025
This IDC Perspective explores the evolution and significance of cloud development environments (CDEs) and the ways they fit the agenda of software delivery and platform engineering teams. It discusses likely benefits and risks posed by CDEs and maps the competitive landscape, segmenting vendors base ... Read More
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The Transformative Importance of Talent Intelligence
This IDC Perspective discusses the transformative importance of talent intelligence. Advancements in AI are transforming workforce dynamics, leading to job redefinitions and skill shortages. Talent intelligence, which combines skills ontology, AI capabilities, and predictive analytics, is essential ... Read More
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Inference at the Edge: Implications for Service Providers
This IDC Perspective explores the emerging topic of inference at the edge in terms of key drivers and impact on service providers. It provides guidance to decision-makers on deciding which service provider will help them navigate the complexities of adopting this new technology."Inferencing at the e ... Read More
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