Category: Software & Enterprise Computing
Software & Enterprise Computing market research reports by 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Building Management Systems and Facility Management Firms Increasingly Intertwined in the Post-COVID-19 Workplace
This IDC Market Perspective discusses building management systems (BMS) and facility management (FM) firms being increasingly intertwined in the post-COVID-19 workplace. Building management systems and facility management applications have had similar paths in both the COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 env ... Read More
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Modern Incidents Require Modern Data Mining
This IDC Perspective explains how data mining plays an essential role in optimizing the incident response process. The increasing sophistication of cyberthreats necessitates modern data mining tools for effective incident response. Traditional manual processes are inadequate, leading to delays and h ... Read More
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Accelerating Enterprise GenAI Workflows with IaaS Network Services
This IDC Market Perspective highlights how infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) network services offered by cloud service providers can help accelerate deployment of enterprise GenAI workflows. IaaS network services ensure on-demand connectivity, optimized performance, and robust security, enabling se ... Read More
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European Data Intelligence, Integration, and Platform Software Market Events, 2H24
The IDC Market Note highlights significant developments in the European data intelligence, integration, and platform software market from July to December 2024. Key trends include increased investments in AI and data lakehouse architectures, major product releases, and strategic partnerships among t ... Read More
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The Importance of IT/Operational Technology Security Convergence
This IDC Perspective examines the importance of IT/operational technology (OT) security convergence in the utilities sector. Utility energy infrastructure is currently one of the most targeted and vulnerable set of assets in terms of security threats globally. IT and OT security is crucial in today' ... Read More
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What Is Work Today — And When Will We Stop Needing Humans to Do It?
This IDC Perspective explores the implications of agentic AI in the workforce, highlighting its potential to revolutionize business operations while raising concerns about job displacement. It discusses the balance between AI augmentation and human roles, presenting various scenarios of workforce im ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Leveraging Integrated Bank Payment Platforms
This IDC PeerScape delves into the challenges around bank payment platforms and the practices to optimize payment modernization."Banks around the world, despite different regulatory regimes, different rails, and different customers, face many of the same challenges," according to Aaron Press, resear ... Read More
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SAS Insight 2025 for Analysts — A Focus on AI Productivity
This IDC Market Note highlights the details of the SAS Insight 2025 Conference for industry analysts on February 26–28, Cary, North Carolina. SAS Insight 2025 focused on SAS’ strategy and technology so customers would be more productive with data and AI for decisioning. SAS emphasized its continued ... Read More
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A Sunny Future for Broadcom's VeloRAIN?
This IDC Market Note discusses Broadcom's VeloRAIN platform. VeloRAIN represents a significant advancement in network performance and management. IT employs AI-based network optimization, dynamic application-based slicing, and AI operations to deliver advanced network services, providing tools that ... Read More
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