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C2G: How are China Datacenter Providers Going Global?

Mikhail Jaura, William Lee — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight shows the key investment decisions impacting datacenters in the Greater China region (PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan). This document extracts a key data point from a question asked in IDC's 2024 Asia/Pacific Datacenter Infrastructure Survey with 610 respondents.

How Will Organizations in EMEA Invest in AI?

Brian Wood — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights AI investment by organizations in EMEA.

Hype and interest in generative AI drive reevaluation and reinvigoration of Good Old-Fashioned AI and Data Literacy and Maturity. IDC's Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Survey results show where investments will likely focus.

IDC MarketScape: Middle East and Africa Cloud Professional Services 2024 Vendor Assessment

Eric Samuel, Jonathan Tullett, Mufasir Yousuf — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of the 2024 cloud professional services market through the IDC MarketScape model. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that explain a vendor's success in the marketplace and help anticipate the vendor's ascendancy. This IDC MarketScape covers a variety of vendors participating in the MEA cloud professional services market. This evaluation is based on a comprehensive framework and set of parameters that are expected to be the most conducive to success in providing cloud professional services in both the short term and the long term. This evaluation also covered how buyers of cloud professional services perceive the key characteristics and capabilities of the listed providers.

"As cloud services become mainstream, organizations are taking a more holistic approach to cloud investments, demanding advanced capabilities from their engaged vendor to drive transformation and innovation. The vendor landscape is highly competitive, with vendors enhancing their offerings and carving out niche strategies. A record 15 vendors were evaluated in this study, giving buyers a new snapshot of vendors to consider." Eric Samuel, Associate Research Director, IT Services.

Implications of Equinix's Datacenter Launch for the South African Datacenter Market

Derrick Chikanga — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note provides IDC's key opinions on and impressions of Equinix's October 2024 launch of the JN1 datacenter in Johannesburg, South Africa.

"The recent launch of the JN1 datacenter by Equinix will further intensify competition in an increasingly competitive market. Datacenter providers in South Africa continue to expand their facilities due to increased demand from cloud providers, content providers, and internet service providers. Consequently, service reliability will become a differentiator as competition intensifies" — Research Manager Derrick Chikanga, IT Services, IDC South Africa

Xerox's European Alignment with Global Strategic Business Priorities

Jacqui Hendriks — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note reviews the measures Xerox has taken to be better positioned to act on its strategic business priorities in Europe. It includes Xerox's financial results for FY24 Q3, its overall performance for FY24 to date, and the development of its Reinvention initiatives, particularly those impacting Europe.

国内ITサービス市場産業分野別予測アップデート、2024年～2028年

Takuya Uemura — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内ITサービス市場の概況や動向を取り上げ、ユーザー企業について18の産業分野（小分類）別の分析に加え、6つの産業分野（大分類）別、および3つのサービスセグメント（中分類）別にITサービス支出額をまとめたものである。市場分野ごとに2024年～2028年の市場規模および成長率を予測している。さらに、サービスベンダーに対するIDCの提言を加えている。同市場は、2024年～2028年の予測期間において、継続するクラウド移行、インフラ／アプリケーションのモダナイゼーション、デジタルビジネス化に向けた新たなシステムへの投資が継続的な高成長を支えるとIDCではみている。

IDC Japan、Software & Servicesのシニアリサーチマネージャーである植村卓弥は、「国内ITサービス市場は、引き続き既存システムのクラウド移行やITインフラのモダナイゼーションに向けた活発な需要が牽引し、高成長を維持している。2025年以降は、企業のデジタルビジネスへの本質的な変革を進めるための基幹業務アプリケーションのモダナイゼーションと、新規事業などの新たなシステム領域への投資が市場成長を牽引する。AI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）ユースケースの飛躍的発展は、これらのいずれにもプラスの影響をもたらすであろう」と述べている

IDC Survey Spotlight：2024年国内データセンターサステナビリティ強化における課題

Mimei Ito — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内データセンター管理者に対するアンケート調査結果を基に、データセンターにおけるサステナビリティ対策実施に際してユーザー企業が直面している課題を調査している。回答企業の産業分野別クロス集計によって、産業分野による違いを分析している。

IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Workloads Taxonomy, 2024

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides an overview of and definitions for IDC's Infrastructure Trends and Strategies: Enterprise Workloads syndicated research. This taxonomy is also a base for IDC's Semiannual Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Workloads. Driven by extensive primary research and analysis, these products provide insights on trends in workload migration, demand for certain compute and storage technologies for various workloads, and forecast spending on compute and storage systems supporting these workloads.

"IDC's workloads research evaluates the consumption of server and storage resources to power enterprise workloads across multiple deployment models, locations, infrastructure tiers, and application architectures," said Natalya Yezhkova, research vice president, IDC's Infrastructure Systems, Platforms, and Technologies Group. "In addition, this research provides actionable insights into buyer behavior and recommendations on infrastructure modernization trends and strategies to enable enterprises that are undergoing digital transformations."

Kyndryl FY 2Q25 Earnings: Reaffirms Return to Revenue Growth in FY25 with Signings and Three As Momentum

Jason Bremner — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

Kyndryl hosted a webcast with financial analysts on November 7, 2024, after releasing its FY 2Q25 earnings the previous day. Kyndryl reported revenue of $3.8 billion (-7% y/y at constant currency, -7% y/y as reported) for the quarter ending September 30, 2024. Signings were $5.6 billion (growing 133% y/y in constant currency, 132% y/y as reported). Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $557 million, representing a 14.8% margin that was an improvement of 70 basis points y/y. Adjusted pretax income grew 80% y/y to $45 million, a margin of 1.2%, representing a y/y adjusted pretax margin improvement of 60 basis points. Adjusted free cash flow was $56 million. The remainder of this document analyzes and reports on y/y revenue growth in constant currency unless otherwise noted, rounded to the nearest percentage point as Kyndryl disclosed in its financial release.

Workloads repatriation: How intense it is in Latin America

Pietro Delai — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey provides insights into repatriation plans—workloads move from the public cloud to dedicated cloud or traditional environments— in Latin America. These insights are supported by a larger survey, completed in July 2024, that assessed plans and preferences of 630 technology executives for choosing infrastructure environments to run corporate workloads.

Hybrid multicloud implementation continues to expand in Latin America, but ongoing environment reassessment may lead to workload repatriation. This study assesses the intensity of repatriation that has taken place over the past 12 months and plans for the next 12 months.