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How Do IT Budgets Allocated to Data Protection Infrastructure Differ for Organizations Using PBBAs to Back Up the Majority of Their Jobs?

Ryan Caskey — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 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 the use of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs).

Server CPU Trends in EMEA Infrastructure, 2024

Andrew Buss — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation analyzes trends across server CPU types in EMEA infrastructure in 2024. It looks in more detail at the shipments and revenues of servers by CPU type, processor vendor, server socket counts, and operating system in various market segments. It also analyzes overall CPU vendor revenue and market share changes from 2014 through to 2024. This analysis is based on IDC's EMEA Server Tracker data from November 2025.

Amazon unBoxed 2025: Channels, Partners, and Agents fueling full-funnel advertising for clients of all sizes

Roger Beharry Lall, Lynne Schneider, Alex Holtz — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Amazon’s unBoxed 2025 conference showcased a major AI-driven overhaul of its advertising ecosystem. The company unveiled new agentic AI tools—Ads Agent and Creative Agent—within a unified Campaign Manager that merges Amazon DSP and its Amazon Ad Console. Advertisers can now create, optimize, and generate campaigns using natural language and AI automation. New Full-Funnel Campaigns unify Sponsored Products, Brands, display, and streaming TV with dynamic optimization. New capabilities in Amazon Marketing Cloud aim to broaden audience building and measurement. IDC views this as Amazon’s strategic bid to become marketers’ central operating system, challenging incumbents from across the adtech, and creative apps ecosystems.

Commvault Introduces "Resilience Ops" at SHIFT 2025

Phil Goodwin, Archana Venkatraman, Johnny Yu — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

No one disputes that resilience -- whether business, data or cyber -- is an organizational imperative, and putting the necessary people, process and technology into place can be challenging. At its recent Commvault SHIFT 2025 event in NYC, Commvault introduced the concept of "Resilience Operations," or ResOps, as a framework to bring together the needed components within organizations.

IBM Quantum and Cisco Announce Partnership to Develop Distributed Quantum Computing Network

Heather West, PhD — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

IBM and Cisco are partnering to build a distributed network of large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers, combining IBM Quantum’s quantum computing hardware and Cisco’s networking expertise to address key scaling challenges and lay the foundation for future quantum data centers and a quantum computing internet. This distributed quantum computing approach differs from other quantum vendors that are adopted an acquisition-based integration developmental roadmap.

IDC Market Glance: Datacenter Operators, 4Q25

Olga Yashkova — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance offers an overview of the datacenter operator landscape, spanning global, regional, midscale, local, and niche players. The key parameters factored into categorizing datacenter operators include geographical presence, power capacity, floor space, and core competencies.

IDC's take highlights the evolving ecosystem of partnerships, emerging market trends, expansion strategies, and challenges shaping the datacenter industry presently. This overview aims to assist tech suppliers in understanding market dynamics, identifying collaboration opportunities, and aligning their offerings with datacenter operators' strategic priorities.

Oracle AI World 2025: Identity's Rise in AI's Cloudy Skies

Emanuel Figueroa — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

AI Dominates, But Oracle Didn't Forget the Open Multicloud at Oracle AI World 2025

Adam Reeves — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Oracle AI World (formerly Oracle Cloud World) took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, from October 13 to 16, with greater than 15,000 expected to have attended. While the conference had a significant AI focus, with Oracle going so far as to not only rebranding the conference as "Oracle AI World" but also renaming its flagship database offering as "Oracle AI Database" after adding enhanced AI capabilities to it, Oracle didn't forget about multicloud and made several announcements demonstrating its continuing execution on its multicloud strategy to make Oracle AI Database available in every cloud.

How Are PBBA Budgets Impacted When PBBAs Are Used Extensively to Back Up Most of Their Jobs?

Ryan Caskey — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 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 the use of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA).

IDC: India’s PC Market Hits Record High 4.9 Million Units Shipped in Q3 2025, Driven by AI and Festive Demand

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

INDIA, 20 November 2025 – India’s traditional PC market—including desktops, notebooks, and workstations—recorded a strong 10.1% year-over-year (YoY) growth in Q3 2025, with shipments reaching 4.9 million units. This marks the market’s highest-ever quarterly performance, surpassing the previous record of 4.5 million units shipped in Q3 2024, according to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker .