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What Are the Top Cloud Operation Challenges Organizations in APEJ Face?

Daphne Chung — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight reveals data and insights about Asia/Pacific organizations' cloud operation challenges. It contains subregional and country insights.

IDC PeerScape: Successful CPaaS Use Cases in Hospitality and Travel

Melissa Holtz-Fremeijer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC PeerScape provides insights into how CPaaS is used in the hospitality and travel sector. It identifies the challenges that emerged and how they were addressed. IDC interviewed leading CPaaS vendors with successful use cases for European hospitality and tourism organizations, with CPaaS being deployed to enhance customer engagement and experience, as well as operational and cost efficiency, while meeting infrastructure and data management requirements.

"Hospitality and travel businesses and technology providers are finding ways to meet new requirements that are closely intertwined, including those related to evolving customer needs, scalability, efficiency, and security. Critical factors for successful deployments include customizability, trust, and expertise from CPaaS providers to guide them on their journeys," says Senior Research Manager Melissa Holtz-Fremeijer, European Infrastructure and Communications, IDC.

Does Cloud-Native Technology Allow Organizations to Be More Innovative with Business Application Workload Functionality Like SAP ERP?

Max Pepper — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the impact of native cloud capability on supporting innovation around ERP workloads, looking specifically at SAP ERP functionality. This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the impact both on a worldwide and on a regional level and delves into how this reflects the growth in spending on infrastructure supporting cloud-native applications and SAP's product strategy. These insights come from respondents to IDC's 2025 SAP Infrastructure View Survey, published in May 2025.

How Do Cyberpreparedness and Response Challenges Impact Container Investment?

Ryan Caskey — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the latest findings from IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey — Cloud Data Logistics and Protection, in which individuals are asked to assess data infrastructure management and data protection strategies within their organization. The focus of this analysis is on container investment.

IDC Market Note：FastLabelが牽引する行動するAIへの転換：Data-Centric AIを核としたエコシステムの台頭

Yasusuke Suzuki — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、AI（Artificial Intelligence）開発の競争軸がデータの質へ移行する中、ハイエンドのアノテーションを核とした独自のDataOpsソリューションを展開するFastLabelの戦略を分析する。特にPhysical AI領域におけるデータ主権の確保や技術継承といった領域における同社の提供ソリューションの価値を考察し、AI普及期の生産性パラドックス解消に向けて、Data-Centric AIを推し進める重要性を分析する。

Which steps have European and META organizations taken to address concerns regarding data sovereignty?

Archana Venkatraman — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes how organizations in Europe and the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) approach the implementation of practical steps to address data sovereignty concerns. It assesses the differences in their approaches and is based on IDC's EMEA CloudOps Survey, conducted in November 2025 among 509 respondents.

re:Invent 2025 — AWS Bets Big on Agentic AI, Underscores Sovereignty, and Advances Quantum Innovation

Jebin George, Ranjit Rajan, Manish Ranjan, Harish Dunakhe — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study analyzes the key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025 and presents insights from IDC analysts in the Middle East and Africa who attended the event. AWS reinforced its strategy to lead the next phase of cloud and AI adoption through agentic AI, vertically integrated AI infrastructure and platforms, partnership-driven ecosystems, and sovereign cloud. From a MEA perspective, these announcements signal accelerating demand for sovereign, partner-led cloud models, AI-enabled modernization, and scalable agentic architectures, with significant implications for cloud adoption, regulation, and competitive dynamics across the region.

Enterprises Continue to Leverage Both Private and Public Cloud as Data Grows

Jevin Jensen — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights how enterprises continue to run a substantial share of production workloads in company-owned edge and datacenter locations. Double-digit data growth in public and private clouds persists, with private cloud data growing slightly faster. As AI-enabled applications gain traction, companies should carefully review and forecast AI costs to determine the best location for these new workloads.

Reining in the Cloud: Strategies to Manage Rising Cloud Costs

Gerald Johnston — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Public cloud adoption has become nearly universal, yet many enterprises are confronting a difficult reality: While cloud enables agility and speed, it does not always deliver the cost efficiencies the business expects. CIOs and CFOs alike are grappling with cloud bills that continue to rise, sometimes unpredictably, creating tension between the promise of cloud and its financial performance. The paradox of cloud economics is that both statements, "the cloud saves money" and "the cloud is too expensive," can be true. Properly designed cloud-native workloads use elasticity to match resources to demand, avoiding idle capacity and wasted spend. However, lift-and-shift migrations that simply replicate static on-premises environments often operate continuously at higher unit costs, eroding the expected savings. The issue is not whether cloud is cheaper, but whether organizations are using cloud resources effectively and governing them strategically. Key drivers of cost escalation include overprovisioned compute, unmanaged storage growth, data egress and intercloud transfer fees, and the stickiness of proprietary services such as databases, analytics, and AI platforms. Without mature governance and FinOps practices, the ease of provisioning resources leads to sprawl, idle instances, orphaned storage, and opaque cost structures that accumulate quickly.

"The cloud is not inherently cheaper or more expensive — it is only as cost efficient as the governance, modernization choices, and forecasting discipline CIOs put in place. Enterprises that embed FinOps, manage hybrid and multicloud environments as portfolios, and treat cost optimization as continuous will transform cloud economics into a source of strategic value," says Gerald Johnston, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).

Software Channel Leadership Council, December 2025: SaaS and PaaS Sell and Service Motions — Partner Perceptions, Requirements, and Business Focus

Paul Edwards — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation shares insight into the current state of partner value relative to sell and service motions, with a focus on how these partners may or may not differ across revenue, business direction, and vendor engagement. This content was presented at the Software Channel Leadership Council on December 10, 2025, in Palo Alto.