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Advancing Autonomous Network Evolution Through an Integrated Approach

Swathi Arunaa, Nikhil Batra — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective highlights the need for communication SPs to adopt integrated, data-driven strategies for advancing autonomous network evolution. As communications SPs face rising complexity, operational costs, and customer expectations, leveraging AI and automation is essential. The report emphasizes the importance of an integrated, data-driven approach that transforms complexity into opportunity for communication SPs.

"Communications SPs, vendors, and standard bodies continue to emphasize improving automation capabilities. However, progress is often hindered by data silos and the complexities of multivendor and multidomain integration. The priority now is to adopt an integrated approach to build the right foundations in a manner that shifts the use cases from pilot to production and accelerates future automation use cases to realize autonomy," says Swathi Arunaa, senior research analyst, telecom and Internet of Things (IoT), IDC Asia/Pacific.

Are Enterprises Planning to Increase Spending on Application Modernization and Migration in 2026?

Michele Rosen — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the application modernization and migration projects that enterprises plan to invest in more during 2026. Data in this IDC Survey Spotlight comes from IDC's November 2025 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 8, which interviewed IT decision-makers to ask about their 2026 spending plans.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2026 Predictions - Japan Implications

Satoshi Matsumoto — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

本調査レポート（プレゼンテーション）は、世界および国内クラウド市場を分析し、今後、ITバイヤーが留意すべき主要な10項目の展望（Predictions）と、各展望に関わる提言を提示している。

爆発的な増加が見込まれるAI（Artificial Intelligence）ワークロードに対応するためには、クラウド環境をモダナイズし、運用の自律化が重要となっている。「企業がAIエージェント／エージェンティックAIを活用してデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX）を加速するためには、デジタル戦略のアップデート、組織変革、新しいスキルの習得、デジタル主権の確立などが重要である」と、IDC Japan、Software & Servicesのリサーチディレクターである松本聡は述べている。

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2026 Predictions - Japan Implications - Positioning for Success - Opportunities for Tech Sales and Marketing Leaders

Satoshi Matsumoto — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、『IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2026 Predictions - Japan Implications（IDC #JPJ53019125、2025年12月発行）』に付随して作成されたものである。ITサプライヤーの2つの役職、営業リーダーとマーケティングリーダーに対する提言を提供している。

IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Managed SD-WAN/SASE Services 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Nikhil Batra, Sakshi Grover — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents an assessment of 10 communications SPs that provide managed SD-WAN and SASE services in the Asia/Pacific region. The assessment is based on their current capabilities, go-to-market (GTM) strategies, growth, innovation, and plans for delivering managed software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and secure access service edge (SASE) services. This is an evolution of the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Managed SD-WAN/SASE Services 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment in 2024, and the second comprehensive analysis by IDC in a rapidly evolving market. It provides insights into enterprises deciding on the adoption of managed SASE services in Asia/Pacific.

“The Asia/Pacific region has witnessed a significant shift in software-defined networking, moving from SD-WAN to a more comprehensive range of SASE framework-based solutions. This evolution is driven by the increasing demand from enterprises for flexible, reliable, and secure networking solutions. To this end, communications SPs are offering a broader range of services, including SASE framework–driven solutions that combine networking and security capabilities. However, not all offerings are created equal, and various service providers are positioning themselves in different ways to stand out in a highly competitive market,” says Nikhil Batra, senior research director, IDC Asia/Pacific Telecom Practice.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS Data Protection 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Johnny Yu, Phil Goodwin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study is an evaluation of six prominent SaaS data protection vendors on a worldwide basis and offers details on each vendor's capabilities and offerings. This evaluation is intended to help IT buyers differentiate between SaaS data protection solutions and narrow down candidates that fit their specific needs.

"With so many SaaS applications, it is often difficult for organizations to find a data protection solution that offers both the breadth of SaaS application coverage to support everything they use and the depth of capabilities to make it more valuable than what native tools can do," said Johnny Yu, research manager, Infrastructure Software Platform at IDC. "This IDC MarketScape is designed to help IT buyers find that balance of breadth and depth and narrow down their choices of SaaS data protection solutions to ones that best match their needs."

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 the company's 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

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

HPE Discover Barcelona 2025 highlighted Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE's) strategy to unify networking, cloud operations (CloudOps), and multi-architecture AI systems into an integrated foundation for AI-ready hybrid cloud environments. Key announcements included expansions to the AI Factory portfolio with new NVIDIA Blackwell systems, the first AMD "Helios" AI rack-scale platform, and sovereign-ready offerings; accelerated Aruba-Juniper integration with shared AIOps, common Wi-Fi 7 hardware, and new UET-ready switches and MX/PTX routing; and updates to GreenLake CloudOps through deeper OpsRamp, Apstra, and Morpheus integration for full-stack observability and automation. HPE also introduced the Alletra MP X10000 Data Intelligence Node, strengthened data fabric and sovereign cloud capabilities, and added new HPE Financial Services financing programs. Collectively, these moves advance HPE's shift toward a unified, scalable platform for AI and hybrid cloud deployments across enterprise, research, service provider, and sovereign environments.

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

On December 3, 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced 4Q25 and FY25 financial results, reporting record quarterly revenue of $9.7 billion, up 14% YoY, with non-GAAP operating profit of $1.2 billion and free cash flow of $1.9 billion, both above expectations. Non-GAAP operating margin rose to a record 12.2%, reflecting a pronounced shift toward higher-margin businesses, especially networking. The first full-quarter contribution from Juniper Networks lifted Networking revenue to $2.8 billion (up 150% YoY) with 23% operating margin, while Server revenue declined 5% YoY to $4.5 billion due to AI system shipment timing, even as AI backlog reached $4.7 billion. Hybrid Cloud declined 13% YoY to $1.4 billion, but annualized revenue run rate (ARR) increased to $3.2 billion — up 62% YoY — as GreenLake adoption expanded to about 46,000 customers globally. For FY25, HPE delivered strong top-line momentum, generating $34.3 billion in revenue, up 14% year over year.