target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jun 2023 - Document type: IDC TechBrief - Doc Document number: # US50675523
IDC TechBrief: Server-Side Wasm
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Abstract
This IDC TechBrief examines server-side WebAssembly (Wasm), a binary code environment that enables near-native code execution and portability irrespective of runtime (e.g., browser, server, edge) and/or application development language. Server-side Wasm is in the early days of formation, with various start-ups and a wider open source community building capabilities and likely standards for developers and operators. While in its early days, it has the potential to disrupt in the midterm, especially in relation to cloud-native, serverless, FaaS, and edge applications.
"Server-side Wasm is showing significant growth in the open source software community, where project contributors are advancing its capabilities for use cases that prioritize security, portability, size/efficiency, and speed," said Lara Greden, research director of PaaS at IDC. "As organizations develop modern application development strategies, they need to understand how server-side Wasm can play a critical role in achieving benefits, including avoiding costly breaches in application security, enabling their developers to focus critical skills on business logic, and enabling serverless and functions-as-a-service architectures."