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AI and Its Impact on PaaS Market Dynamics

Adam Reeves — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight explores enterprise expectations about which service providers and vendors they will look to for support with their AI/ML and GenAI needs. Coupled with the massive growth expected in AI platforms through 2029, deployment expectations could drive market turbulence that sees significant revenue available to PaaS providers.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Sustainable Cloud Datacenter 2025 Vendor Assessment

Vladimir Kroa — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC MarketScape evaluates global sustainable cloud datacenter providers, emphasizing the importance of renewable energy sourcing, efficient resource management, and sustainable AI strategies. Major players such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft lead in offering sustainable cloud services, leveraging their economies of scale and advanced technologies. Midsize providers (e.g., OVHcloud) also contribute by aligning with local regulations and utilizing low-carbon energy. The report highlights challenges in sustainable construction and energy efficiency, offering insights for technology buyers seeking eco-friendly cloud solutions.

"Sustainable datacenters provide business value by reducing operational expenses, in addition to lessening their associated environmental impacts by using renewable energy, deploying efficient hardware, and adhering to transparent reporting," said Vladimir Kroa, AVP Sustainability, Sustainable Strategies and Technologies, IDC.

Shopify Summer Editions 2025: Leveraging AI, Merchant and Customer Experiences, and Enhanced Point-of-Sale Capabilities to Explore Bold New "Horizons"

Heather Hershey — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective discusses Shopify's Summer Editions 2025 release, "Horizons," which expands the platform's reach into enterprise-grade capabilities while maintaining accessibility for smaller merchants. The update emphasizes embedded AI across merchandising, marketing, and support functions, as well as global infrastructure for cross-border selling and B2B functionality. By streamlining extensibility, Shopify offers a curated alternative to full composability, appealing to developers and business users alike. These advancements position Shopify as a unified commerce operating system with growing relevance across the full merchant maturity curve. For technology vendors, the strategic implications are clear: Differentiation must move beyond baseline features. Vendors competing with Shopify should focus on vertical depth, complex configuration, post-purchase value, or AI use cases not addressed by Shopify Magic or Sidekick. Those in adjacent categories must optimize for native integration into Shopify's stack while identifying areas where Shopify's road map remains incomplete.

"Shopify's Horizons release signals a clear intent to unify the merchant experience across maturity levels. By embedding AI and scaling global infrastructure, the company is closing the gap between simplicity and enterprise sophistication," says Heather Hershey, research director, Worldwide Digital Commerce, IDC. "As Shopify expands horizontal capabilities, competitive viability for other vendors in digital commerce and adjacent categories will depend on verticalization, interoperability, post-purchase service depth, and speed of adaptation."

Workload Repatriation Trends and Drivers

Adam Reeves — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the drivers of workload repatriation from public cloud PaaS to private cloud deployed on premises. It looks at the relative importance of workload and/or application performance, security, privacy, and cost as drivers of repatriation and combines that view with an understanding of what portion of applications and application workloads are actually being repatriated.

国内SD-WAN市場予測、2025年～2029年

Yoko Ono — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートでは、インフラストラクチャ、マネージドサービス、プロフェッショナルサービスで構成される国内SD-WAN（Software-Defined Wide Area Network）市場に関して、2024年の実績および2025年～2029年の市場予測および展望を提供する。

「国内SD-WAN市場の二桁成長が継続している。主な背景は、企業のWANトラフィックの増加とセキュリティ意識の高まり、ネットワークとセキュリティ対策の複雑化の3点である。ITサプライヤーは、WANとセキュリティの融合市場の裾野の広がりを見据え、SD-WAN/SASE（Secure Access Service Edge）によるアーキテクチャの導入コスト最適化、提案や設計など上流工程を担う人的リソースの拡充、自前のNaaS（Network as a Service）の提供などに取り組むべきである」とIDC Japan、Infrastructure & Devicesのリサーチマネージャーである小野陽子は述べている。

中国政务云市场份额，2024：云运营服务

Janice Jin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究是中国政务云系列研究，属于中国数字政府市场研究的一部分，聚焦于政务云的专属云市场、公有云市场、以及云运营服务三个市场，重点分析了政务云市场的建设现状与市场环境，并提供了细分市场的厂商市场份额。

IDC中国政府行业研究经理金子惠表示："2024 年中国政务云市场规模保持相对稳定增长，市场格局稳定。从政府行业整体结构来看，基础设施仍占据市场较大比重，其中政务云IaaS层受大模型发展影响，算力需求显著提升，PaaS层因政务大模型与政务数据的发展实现较高比例增长，云运营服务亦成为近年来各云厂商重点布局方向。"

中国政务云市场份额，2024：政务专属云

Janice Jin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

IDC政府行业研究经理金子惠表示：2024 年中国政务云市场规模保持相对稳定增长，市场格局稳定。从政府行业整体结构来看，基础设施仍占据市场较大比重，其中政务云IaaS层受大模型发展影响，算力需求显著提升，PaaS层因政务大模型与政务数据的发展实现较高比例增长，云运营服务亦成为近年来各云厂商重点布局方向。"

中国政务云市场份额，2024：政务公有云

Janice Jin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究是中国政务云系列研究，属于中国数字政府市场研究的一部分，聚焦于政务云的专属云市场、公有云市场以及云运营服务三个市场，重点分析了政务云市场的建设现状与市场环境，并提供了细分市场的厂商市场份额。

IDC政府行业研究经理金子惠表示："2024 年中国政务云市场规模保持相对稳定增长，市场格局稳定。从政府行业整体结构来看，基础设施仍占据市场较大比重，其中政务云IaaS层受大模型发展影响，算力需求显著提升，PaaS层因政务大模型与政务数据的发展实现较高比例增长，云运营服务亦成为近年来各云厂商重点布局方向。"

Revolutionizing Datacenter Operations: HPE and Digital Realty's Strategic Partnership

Olga Yashkova, Rob Tiffany — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Link discusses the recent partnership between HPE and Digital Realty announced on June 25, 2025, at HPE Discover Las Vegas. A leader in private cloud hosting with high-speed interconnects to each of the hyperscale public clouds, Digital Realty adopts the HPE Private Cloud Business Edition to manage its own operations.

IDC：新时代工控系统3大趋势：软件定义自动化、AI、全集成开发环境

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

北京，2025年7月3日——传统工控系统软硬强耦合的封闭生态以及较低的算力，已经不能满足面向未来的生产管控需求，云、AI等新技术正在向工控领域渗透，并形成软件定义自动化、自动化+AI、全集成开发环境等发展方向。近日，国际数据公司（IDC）发布了《新型工控技术发展趋势分析》报告（ Doc #CHC52929825 ， 2025 年 6 月），分析了3个发展方向的价值、市场影响、相关供应商布局等，供市场参考。