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Network Automation: Fueled by AI and Focused on Many Critical Tasks

Mark Leary — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the planned role and focus of AI-powered network automation. These survey results are drawn from IDC's 2025 AI in Networking Special Report — a report driven by a worldwide survey of 500+ enterprise network executives and experts. The report covers both the impact and plans for supporting AI workloads across the network and using AI-powered networking solutions. The focus of this document is comprehensive, covering datacenters, cloud services, multicloud environments, network core and edge, and network management. While this IDC Survey Spotlight offers only a view into total responses, results are available by geographic region, select country, company size, major vertical industries, respondent's role, and the AI maturity level of the respondent's organization.

"The vast majority of network executives and experts believe network automation must be fueled by AI. And there is a growing commitment to AI to not only determine network faults and needed changes but also actually execute the necessary management actions. Given the complexity and criticality of the network infrastructure and the very real shortcomings of networking staff and tools, AI is seen as a crucial ingredient in improving network service levels and capabilities, networked resource use and protection, networking staff productivity, and value. The focal points for AI-powered network automation certainly indicate that IT organizations are moving toward a future where more precise, proactive, and protective autonomous management will be the norm — not the exception." — Mark Leary, research director, Network Observability and Automation, IDC

Sustainable Cloud: A Deep Dive Into GreenOps

Filippo Vanara — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective analyzes green operations, or GreenOps, and the importance of providing data, recommendations, and insights through cloud sustainability metrics. This document is also an update of FinOps and GreenOps: Synergies Between the Two Approaches (IDC #EUR151007123, July 2023).

“IT operations play a key role in delivering and supporting cloud services. However, these are often not properly optimized, leading to unnecessary waste, costs, and unwanted GHG emissions. GreenOps, as well as FinOps, help organizations deliver efficient solutions, innovation, and business value in the cloud by removing silos and improving collaboration and data-driven decisions.” — Senior Research Analyst Filippo Vanara, IDC European CloudOps and ESG

What Are the Top Attributes that European Organizations Consider When Selecting a Service Provider to Manage IT and/or Cloud Environments?

Francesca Ciarletta — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the top attributes that European organizations consider in their selection of a managed cloud service provider. The analysis compares organizations that already use managed cloud services versus those that are considering or planning usage. The results are based on the IDC's EMEA Cloud Survey, conducted in August 2025, which collected responses from 1,155 organizations across Europe.

Digital Sovereignty and AI in Canada: Part 2 of the 2025 Survey Data

Nigel Wallis — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey, using data from IDC's 2025 Worldwide Digital Sovereignty Survey, explores the relationship between digital sovereignty, sovereign cloud, and AI workloads in Canada compared with the rest of the world.

Respondents answered questions about AI and sovereign cloud among others:

Current and future state of adoption
Drivers of adoption
Role of transparency and accountability
Differences between AI workloads, AI models, and AI data

"As adoption of AI has rapidly become ubiquitous, organizations are having to deal with new and more complex questions of digital sovereignty, driven by geopolitical events, regulatory compliance, and new vendor investment and offerings. As a result, IDC is providing not only a taxonomy for digital sovereignty but also data on the commonalities and differences between Canadian perceptions of sovereignty and their global counterparts." — Nigel Wallis, research VP, IDC Canada

Digital Sovereignty in Canada: Part 1 of the 2025 Survey Data

Nigel Wallis — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey, using data from IDC's 2025 Worldwide Digital Sovereignty Survey, explores digital sovereignty and sovereign cloud in Canada compared with the rest of the world.

Respondents answered questions about sovereign cloud:

Current and future state of adoption
Drivers and inhibitors to adoption
Perceived benefits
Challenges to implementation
Leading sovereign cloud vendors today and next year
Selection attributes for choosing sovereign cloud providers

The document also examines the Canadian responses to digital sovereignty issues, including:

Diversifying technological ecosystems
Data sovereignty
Technical sovereignty
Operational sovereignty

"Interest in digital sovereignty and specifically sovereign cloud has risen greatly in the past year, driven by geopolitical events, regulatory compliance, and new vendor investment and offerings. As nearly every organization has now embraced a cloud architecture, the question and debate about which workloads to utilize sovereign clouds is a live issue for Canadian CIOs and their line-of-business counterparts. The federal government's November 11 position paper Digital Sovereignty: A Framework to improve digital readiness of the Government of Canada will only stoke the curiosity of Canadian organizations. As a result, IDC is providing not only a taxonomy for digital sovereignty but also data on the commonalities and differences between Canadian perceptions of sovereignty and their global counterparts." Nigel Wallis, research VP, IDC Canada

Ecosystem Development in Insurance 2025

Inci Kaya — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey shares the ecosystem development–related findings from IDC's 2025 Financial Insights Industry Intelligence Survey from insurance respondents. This document explores the insurance sector's key drivers, use case adoption, and underlying technologies related to building or developing ecosystems.

Carriers view ecosystem development as a key priority, though it follows higher-ranking initiatives focused on leveraging AI and GenAI and improving compliance, regulatory oversight, and antifraud measures. Ecosystem development entails engaging with new ecosystems like payments, ecommerce platforms, and partnerships.

Technology vendors can use this document to:

Identify suitable products and services to distribute across a broader ecosystem
Identify partners and marketplaces that may be a good fit to expand the reach of their products and services to new audiences
Develop success metrics and partnerships to track how well partnerships are working

Technology vendor executives in marketing, sales and product strategy, and other areas can leverage the insight from this document to inform and formulate their approach with buyers in the insurance sector.

Infoblox Expands Universal DDI Integrations with AWS, Microsoft & Google to Ease Management of Core Network Services across Hybrid Environments

Brandon Butler — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

In November, 2025, DDI and security vendor Infoblox announced significant advancements to its Universal DDI product, which focus on integrations with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft, which streamline management of core network services across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Latest Enterprise Adoption Trends for IaaS Network Services, 2025

Taranvir Singh — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presentation highlights the latest enterprise infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) network services adoption trends, sourced from the IaaS Network Services Special Report.

This IDC Survey is conducted at a time when many organizations are facing complex networking challenges, mainly due to evolving enterprise IT architectures involving a rising number of modern digital, agentic, and GenAI workflows across on-premises networks (from datacenters to campus core to network edge), SaaS provider networks, and multicloud environments. In addition, modern applications consist of more distributed components than ever. Enterprises are primarily concerned about these watchpoints — network resiliency, service consistency, and staff productivity.

An in-depth web survey of 1,000 key enterprise networking decision-makers was conducted across North America and Western Europe, representing a range of 8 major vertical industries and company sizes from 500 to 10,000+ employees. These decision-makers expect to respond to these challenges by increasing IaaS network services adoption to support their globally distributed digital infrastructure end to end — from network to compute to data to applications.

Full version of IDC IaaS Network Services Special Report provides detailed quantitative and qualitative views into customers' networking requirements, service priorities, budgets, adoption timelines, expected returns, and provider differentiation.

Technology Investment and Innovation Monitor, October 2025: Tech Buyer and IT Spending Priorities for 2026 and the Use of Cloud Marketplaces

Rick Villars — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents results from IDC's 2025 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey, Wave 8, which focuses on issues related to IT leaders' economic outlook, spending priorities for 2026, the use of cloud marketplaces, and the implications of GenAI for business intelligence and analytics. It was conducted in late October 2025.

Building custom agents, modernizing corporate datacenters, and migrating apps to cloud are the top drivers of 2026 spending increases worldwide. The implications of AI on business and apps are the primary drivers. It is part of a series of IT buyer outlook FERS Surveys across regions, technologies, and industries throughout 2025. This survey of 890 respondents in North America, Asia/Pacific, and Western Europe was conducted in October 2025, while IT leaders were making initial decisions on 2026 plans.

Vendor Value Attributes and Strategic Technology Partners to the C-Suite, 2025: C-Suite Tech Survey, Part 4

Tony Olvet — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey explores the results of IDC's Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey to provide insights into C-suite persona priorities and plans for the next year. The survey highlights C-suite views on priorities, challenges, and decision-making dynamics for technology initiatives. This analysis is based on the full international set of respondents of the Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey, conducted in August–September 2025. The respondents include 914 respondents across North America, Asia/Pacific, and EMEA. This is part 4 of a four-part series, focusing on questions related to vendor value attributes and strategic technology partners for the C-suite. The study findings are designed to help tech vendors understand how to meet the changing priorities of C-suite executives and can serve as peer reference research for C-suite executives in the enterprise.